The Origins of Old Germanic Studies in the Low Countries

The Origins of Old Germanic Studies in the Low Countries
Author: Cornelis Dekker
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 504
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004110311

This volume deals with the comparative study of Old Germanic languages in the Low Countries, in the middle of the seventeenth century; with special attention to the work of the philologist and lawyer Jan van Vliet (1622-1666).

The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson 1604–1755

The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson 1604–1755
Author: De Witt T. Starnes
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 435
Release: 1991-07-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027277729

This study by Starnes and Noyes was immediately recognized as a unique and pioneering work of scholarship and has long been the standard work on the emergence and early flowering of English lexicography. Within the last 20 years we have been witnessing a remarkable scholarly interest in the study of dictionary-making and the role played by dictionaries in the transmission and preservation of knowledge and learning. It is therefore essential to have this classic work available again to all students of linguistic history. In its new edition the book has been vastly enhanced by a lengthy and invaluable introduction by Gabriele Stein, Professor of English Linguistics in Heidelberg and author of The English Dictionary before Cawdrey (1985). In her introduction to the present volume she sets out in scholarly detail the work that has emerged since 1946, which makes this study of the English dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson as complete as the original authors themselves would have wished.

History of Englishes

History of Englishes
Author: Matti Rissanen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 813
Release: 2011-09-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110877007

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.

The Emergence of the English Author

The Emergence of the English Author
Author: Kevin Pask
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 1996-08-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521481557

The historical construction of literary authorship has long been of particular interest to literary scholars. Yet an important aspect of the historical emergence of the author - the literary biography or 'life of the poet' - has received scant attention. In The Emergence of the English Author, Kevin Pask studies the early life-narratives of five now-canonical English poets: Geoffrey Chaucer, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, John Donne and John Milton. By attending to the changing shape of the lives of these poets, Pask produces a history of the developing conception of literary authorship in England from the late medieval period to the end of the eighteenth century, and offers a long-term sociological account of literary production. His book is the first full-scale history of the cultural construction of literary authority in early modern England.

Multi-disciplinary Lexicography

Multi-disciplinary Lexicography
Author: Olga M. Karpova
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2014-08-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 144386563X

The present book is based on presentations made during the IXth International School on Lexicography, “Multi-disciplinary Lexicography: Traditions and Challenges of the XXIst Century”, at Ivanovo State University, September 8–10, 2011, and continues a series of collective monographs devoted to the theoretical and practical problems of lexicography, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2007, 2009 and 2010. The scope of topics discussed in four parts (Dictionary as a Cross-road of Language and Culture, Dictionary Use and Dictionary Criticism, Terminology and LSP Studies, and Projects of New Dictionaries) is rather wide and focuses on burning problems of European, Russian and world lexicography, as well as on projects of new dictionaries. This book will be of interest to theoreticians, practitioners, and students of linguistic faculties.

Word Studies in the Renaissance

Word Studies in the Renaissance
Author: Gabriele Stein
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2017-09-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0192534289

The book examines the work of Renaissance lexicographers such as John Palsgrave, Claudius Hollyband, Richard Huloet, and Peter Levins, with particular focus on the author at work: the struggles of these lexicographers to understand the semantic range of a word and to explain and transpose it into another language; their assessment of different linguistic and cultural expressions, and their morphological analyses; and their efforts to find ways of structuring and presenting lexical information. Gabriele Stein explores the influence of the works by Ambrogio Calepino, Robert Estienne, Hadrianus Junius, and Conrad Gesner, and the extent to which bi- and multilingual dictionaries in the 16th century are often pan-European in character; she also provides the first in-depth and richly-illustrated discussion of the use of typographical resources to present the structure of lexical information.

Samuel Richardson

Samuel Richardson
Author: Rudnik-Smalbraak
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2023-08-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004623485

The seven sages of Rome (midland version)

The seven sages of Rome (midland version)
Author: Jill Whitelock
Publisher: Early English Text Society
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2005
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780197223277

This is a new edition of an independent Middle English version of an enormously popular story collection, found in almost all European languages. This version was previously edited by Thomas Wright in 1845, but is not otherwise available. The new edition presents a corrected text with full introduction and commentary. The Seven Sages is the first framed story in English, and was known to Chaucer and Gower, among others.