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Lexicography and the OED: pioneers in the untrodden forest

Lexicography and the OED: pioneers in the untrodden forest
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Author:
Lynda Mugglestone
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Release Date:
2000
ISBN-10:
0198237847
ISBN-13:
9780198237846

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About Lexicography and the OED: pioneers in the untrodden forest

Lexicography and the OED: Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest sets out to explore the pioneering endeavours in both lexicography and lexicology which led to the making of the first English dictionary published by Oxford. Deliberately conceived as a new departure in English lexicography, the first OED, as James Murray stressed, was to be founded on an unequivocal return to first principles, both in the nature of its construction and in the evidence amassed for its compilation. It also produced, as this book shows, ahost of problems: on the nature of Englishness, correctness, and general standards of language use, as well as in aspects of pronunciation, semantics, and syntax. Often making use of previously unpublished archive material, this collection of twelve essays provides both a range of perspectives fromwhich the dictionary can be approached, and also explores the particular problems…

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