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Yale University Press Caught in the Web of Words James Murray the
Book SynopsisA biography of James Murray, the first editor of the "Oxford English Dictionary". It provides an account of his life, along with how the dictionary was written, the personalities of the people working on it and the endless difficulties that nearly led to the whole enterprise being abandoned.Trade Review"It is a magnificent story of a magnificent man, one of the finest biographies of the twentieth century, as its subject was one of the finest human beings of the nineteenth." Anthony Burgess "A moving and dramatic story... sometimes tragic, often comic, ultimately triumphant." The Times "A biography that possesses many of the virtues of James Murray himself - grace, humour, intelligence, curiosity, and scholarship." Time "In her vivid biography, Murray's granddaughter brings his remarkable personality to life, and provides an unexpectedly fascinating account of the O.E.D.'s long and difficult birth." Times Literary Supplement "A gripping, engaging story; endearing, too. The daily round of a big Victorian family, with its jokes, games, and treasured seaside holidays, is entrancingly evoked." The Sunday Times"
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Fordham University Press Dictionary Poetics Toward a Radical Lexicography
Book SynopsisDictionary Poetics analyses book-length poems from a number of writers who have used particular editions of specific dictionaries to structure their work. Authors include Louis Zukofsky , George Oppen, Clark Coolidge, Bernadette Mayer, Tina Darragh, and Harryette Mullen.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Toward an Experimental Lexicography | 1 1 Funk & Wagnalls Practical Standard Dictionary of the English Language and Louis Zukofsky’s Thanks to the Dictionary | 33 2 Webster’s Collegiate and Louis Zukofsky’s “A” | 48 3 The Oxford English Dictionary and George Oppen’s Discrete Series | 77 4 Webster’s New Collegiate and the Poetry of Clark Coolidge and Bernadette Mayer | 101 5 The Random House Dictionary of the English Language and the Poetry of Tina Darragh | 129 6 Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang and Harryette Mullen’s Muse & Drudge | 161 Acknowledgments | 185 Notes | 187 Index | 239
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Fordham University Press Dictionary Poetics
Book SynopsisDictionary Poetics analyses book-length poems from a number of writers who have used particular editions of specific dictionaries to structure their work. Authors include Louis Zukofsky , George Oppen, Clark Coolidge, Bernadette Mayer, Tina Darragh, and Harryette Mullen.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Toward an Experimental Lexicography | 1 1 Funk & Wagnalls Practical Standard Dictionary of the English Language and Louis Zukofsky’s Thanks to the Dictionary | 33 2 Webster’s Collegiate and Louis Zukofsky’s “A” | 48 3 The Oxford English Dictionary and George Oppen’s Discrete Series | 77 4 Webster’s New Collegiate and the Poetry of Clark Coolidge and Bernadette Mayer | 101 5 The Random House Dictionary of the English Language and the Poetry of Tina Darragh | 129 6 Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang and Harryette Mullen’s Muse & Drudge | 161 Acknowledgments | 185 Notes | 187 Index | 239
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Equinox Publishing Ltd Statistical Methods in Language and Linguistic Research
Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is try to illustrate with numerous examples how quantitative methods can most fruitfully contribute to linguistic analysis and research. In addition, it does not intend to offer an exhaustive presentation of all statistical techniques available to linguistics, but to demonstrate the contribution that statistics can and should make to linguistic studies. This book shows how quantitative methods and statistical techniques can supplement qualitative analyses of language. It attempts to present some mathematical and statistical properties of natural languages, and introduces some of the quantitative methods which are of the most value in working empirically with texts and corpora, illustrating the various issues with numerous examples and moving from the most basic descriptive techniques to decision-taking techniques and to more sophisticated multivariate statistical language models.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Some Basic Issues 2. Scales and Variables 3. Parametric Versus Non-parametric Statistics 4. Reducing Dimensionality: Multivariate Statistics 5. Word Frequency Lists 6. Words in Context Appendix 1: Standard Normal Distribution Appendix 2: Examples of Appropriate Statistics Appendix 3: T-distribution Appendix 4: F-distribution Appendix 5: Pearson Product-moment Correlation Coefficient Appendix 6: U-distribution for a Two-tailed Mann-Whitney Test Appendix 7: Sign Test Appendix 8: Chi-square Distribution Appendix 9: Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient
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De Gruyter Sixty years of Swedish computational lexicography
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de Gruyter Wörterbuch Der EweSprache
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Articles in English as a Second Language A
Book SynopsisThe aim of this study is to provide an overview of research findings on the acquisition and use of articles in English as a second language, investigated from a phraseological perspective. It also presents an examination of various linguistic accounts of the English article system with respect to their application to English language teaching.
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Bookvault Publishing Parma Eldalamberon 12 Qenyaqetsa
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Arco Libros - La Muralla, S.L. El diccionario de la Academia en el siglo XIX la 5 edicin 1817 al microscopio
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Introduccion a la lexicografia en espanol
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Introducción a la lexicografía en español
Book SynopsisIntroducción a la lexicografía en español. Funciones y aplicaciones ofrece una descripción innovativa de la historia lexicográfica en español, una crítica constructiva de los diccionarios existentes y una visión transformativa y optimista de la disciplina relacionada con las nuevas tecnologías.Basado en la teoría funcional de la lexicografía con un enfoque centrado en el usuario y sus necesidades de información, el libro contribuirá, sin duda, al renacimiento de la lexicografía en español. Su punto de partida es la detección de esas necesidades, la generación de datos que ayuden a resolverlas y la presentación de esos datos a los usuarios mediante un diseño de uso intuitivo.Características principales: Establecimiento de conceptos fundamentales de la lexicografía; Exposición de las tendencias principales en la lexicografía en español; Explicación de las fases para realizar un proyecto lexicográfico; Discusión de los métodos y
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Enlargement of the European Union Issues and Strategies Routledge Studies in the European Economy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Lexicography
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Taylor & Francis The Iranian Languages Routledge Language Family Series
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Taylor & Francis Ltd An Introduction to Child Language Development Learning About Language
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Autonomy and Independence in Language Learning Applied Linguistics and Language Study
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Second Language Grammar Learning and Teaching Applied Linguistics and Language Study
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English
Book SynopsisAnglo-Saxon lexicography studies Latin texts and words. The earliest English lexicographers are largely unidentifiable students, teachers, scholars and missionaries. Materials brought from abroad by early teachers were augmented by their teachings and passed on by their students. Lexicographical material deriving from the early Canterbury school remains traceable in glossaries throughout this period, but new material was constantly added. Aldhelm and Ãlfric Bata, among others, wrote popular, much studied hermeneutic texts using rare, exotic words, often derived from glossaries, which then contributed to other glossaries. Ãlfric of Eynsham is a rare identifiable early English lexicographer, unusual in his lack of interest in hermeneutic vocabulary. The focus is largely on context and the process of creation and intended use of glosses and glossaries. Several articles examine intellectual centres where scholars and texts came together, for example, Theodore and Hadrian in Canterbury; ATable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Section 1 Introduction and Latin and Greek Sources: Old English glossaries: creating a vernacular, Antonette diPaolo Healey; On the nature and transmission of Latin glossaries, A.C. Dionisotti. Section 2 Early Old English Glossaries: The school of Theodore and Hadrian, Michael Lapidge; Early Anglo-Saxon glossaries and the school of Canterbury, J.D. Pheifer; The Werden glossary: structure and sources, A.N. Doane; Old English and Latin glosses to Aldhelm’s prose treatise on virginity and the ’Canterbury glossaries’, Scott Gwara; The Latin and Old English glosses in the ars Tatuini, Vivien Law. Section 3 Glossed Texts and Glosses as Texts: The scholarly achievements of Æthelwold and his circle, Loredana Lazzari; Isidore's Etymologiae and the Canterbury Aldhelm Scholia, Philip G. Rusche; The glossed manuscript: classbook or library book?, Gernot R. Wieland; Recent work on Old English glosses: the case of Boethius, R.I. Page; The Regularis Concordia and its Old English gloss, Lucia Kornexl; Latin learning at Winchester in the early 11th century: the evidence of the Lambeth Psalter, Patrick P. O'Neill; The hermeneutic style in 10th-century Anglo-Latin literature, Michael Lapidge; Contextualized lexicography, Patrizia Lendinara. Section 4 Late Old English Glossaries: Dioscorides' De materia medica and late Old English herbal glossaries, Philip G. Rusche; London, British Library, Cotton Otho E.i: a neglected Latin-Old English glossary, Phillip Pulsiano; A grammarian's Greek-Latin glossary in Anglo-Saxon England, Helmut Gneuss; Worcester books and scholars, and the making of the Harley glossary (British Library MS.Harley 3376), Jessica Cooke; The Irish contribution to Anglo-Latin hermeneutic prose, Jane Stevenson; The Antwerp-London glossary and Ælfric's Glossary. A record of the earliest English scholarship, David W. Porter; The earliest texts with English and French, David W. Porter; Leland's transcript of Ælfric's Glossary, Ronald E. Bucka
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English
Book SynopsisLaying the foundations for the first monolingual dictionaries of English, the sixteenth century in English lexicography is here shown to form a bridge between the glossarial compilations which had slowly evolved during the Middle Ages, and the more recognisably modern dictionary incorporating synonymy, illustrative citations and other standard features. The articles collected here treat general lexicography and dictionaries in this period, their uses, and the state of research in this field. The volume also covers a fascinating and diverse collection of lexicographers, from the well known - John Palsgrave, Thomas Cooper, Thomas Elyot and John Florio - to those about whom next to nothing is known - Richard Howlet, John Baret and Peter Levens.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I General: Narrative and persuasion in early modern dictionaries and phrasebooks, John Considine; 'Dumb significants' and early modern English definition, Ian Lancashire; Doctors and dictionaries in 16th-century England, Roderick McConchie; English specialized lexicography in the late Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, Noel Edward Osselton; Bilingual dictionaries in Shakespeare's day, D.T. Starnes; The emerging role of English in the dictionaries of Renaissance Europe, Gabriele Stein; A footnote on the inkhorn controversy, James Sledd; Language helps for the Elizabethan tradesman, Louis B. Wright. Part II Latin-English: Definitions and first person pronoun involvement in Thomas Elyot's Dictionary, Gabriele Stein; The English of the 'Nomenclator', William A. Craigie; A note on 16th-century vernacular English, Don Cameron Allen; Thomas Thomas makes a dictionary, Allan Stevenson. Part III English-Latin: Richard Huloet as a recorder of the English lexicon, Gabriele Stein; Women and their world in Withal's Dictionary of 1553, Werner Hüllen; A note on the use of Renaissance dictionaries, James Sledd; John Baret's 'diligent bees', H. Rocke Robertson and Philip M. Teigen; Peter Levins' lexicographic approach, Roberta Facchinetti; The 'hard words' of Levins' dictionary, Maurizio Gotti. Part IV Familiar Vernacular: Law and early modern English lexicons, Ian Lancashire; Bilingual lexicography in the Renaissance: Palsgrave's English-French lexicon (1530), Douglas A. Kibbee; William Thomas: a forgotten clerk of the Privy Council, E.R. Adair; Claudius Hollyband and the earliest French-English dictionaries, Mark Eccles; Negotiating Florio's A Worlde of Wordes, David O. Frantz. Part V Unfamiliar Vernacular: The earliest list of Russian Lapp words, John Abercromby; Thomas Harriot (1560-1621) and the English origins of Algonkian linguistics, Vivian Salmon; Mark Ridley (1560-1624): an Elizabethan Slavist, Gerald Stone; Russian medical terminology in Mark Ridley's dictionary, Vera Fedorovna Konnova; The achievement of William Salesbury, Glanmor Williams; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English
Book SynopsisThree major developments in English lexicography took place during the seventeenth century: the emergence of the first free standing monolingual English dictionaries; the making of new kinds of English lexicons that investigated dialect or etymology or that keyed English to invented ''philosophical'' languages; and the massive expansion of bilingual lexicography, which not only placed English alongside the European vernaculars but also handled the languages of the new world. The essays in this volume discuss not only the internal history of lexicography but also its wider relationships with culture and society.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Background: Lexicography in the early modern English period: the manuscript record, Ian Lancashire; Motives behind 17th century lexicography: a comparison between German and English dictionaries of that time, Werner Hüllen; The early modern English tradition of ’hard words’ and the Vindex anglicus (1644), Gerhard Graband; Defining English: authenticity and standardization in 17th-century dictionaries, Andrea R. Nagy; Dictionary English and the female tongue, Juliet Fleming. Part II Overview: The beginnings of English lexicography, Allen Walker Read; The beginning: English dictionaries of the first half of the 17th century, James A. Riddell. Part III Individual Dictionaries: What were Robert Cawdrey's hard words? Learned terms and A Table Alphabeticall (1604), R.W. McConchie; Women and the Godly art of rhetoric: Robert Cawdrey's Puritan dictionary, Sylvia Brown; The historical significance of Cockeram's treatment of verbs of high frequency, Kusujiro Miyoshi; The working methods of Thomas Blount, Jürgen Schäfer; Authenticating the vocabulary: a study in 17th-century lexicographical practice, N.E. Osselton; Thomas Dawks's The Complete English-Man (1685): a newly-discovered 17th-century dictionary?, Edwina Burness. Part IV Encyclopedic Historical and Specialized Dictionaries of English: Captain John Smith's Sea Grammar and its debt to Sir Henry Mainwaring's 'Seaman's Dictionary', P.L. Barbour; 'New World of English Words': John Ray, FRS, the dialect protagonist, in the context of his times (1658-1691), Jo Gladstone; Theory meets empiricism: English Lexis in John Wilkins' philosophical language and the role of William Lloyd, Gabriele Knappe; A Physical Dictionary (1657): the first English medical dictionary, Jukka Tyrkkö. Part V Bilingual and Polyglot Dictionaries: The lexicography of the learned languages in 17th-century England, John Considine; Wordlists of exotic languages in 17th-century England, John Considine; The French-Engl
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English
Book SynopsisThe eighteenth century is renowned for the publication of Samuel Johnson''s A Dictionary of the English Language, which reference sources still call the first English dictionary. This collection demonstrates the inaccuracy of that claim, but its tenacity in the public mind testifies to how decisively Johnson formed our sense of what a dictionary is. The essays and articles in this volume examine the already flourishing tradition of English lexicography from which Johnson drew, as represented by Kersey, Bailey, and Martin, as well as the flourishing contemporary trade in encyclopedic, technical, pronunciation, and bilingual lexicons.Trade Review'Anne C. McDermott does a masterful job of guiding readers through the complicated history and development of 18th-century lexicography' 18th Century IntelligencerTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Background: 18th-century dictionaries and the Enlightenment, Carey McIntosh. Part II Overview: Pronouncing systems in 18th-century dictionaries, Esther K. Sheldon; Vulgar tongues: canting dictionaries and the language of the people in 18th-century Britain, Janet Sorensen. Part III Individual Monolingual Dictionaries: John Kersey, A New English Dictionary (1702): The authorship of A New English Dictionary (1702), Christian Heddesheimer; John Kersey and the ordinary words of English, N.E. Osselton. ’Edward Cocker’, Cocker’s English Dictionary (1704) (rev.John Hawkins, second edition 1715): Edward Cocker and Cocker's English Dictionary, Gertrude E. Noyes. Nathan Bailey, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1721; volume II 1727); Dictionarium Britannicum (1730; second edition 1736): The drudgery of defining: Johnson’s debt to Bailey’s Dictionarium Britannicum, David McCracken. Benjamin Martin, Lingua Britannica Reformata: Or, A New English Dictionary (1749): Benjamin Martin the linguist, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade. Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (1755): Johnson and the Renaissance dictionary, Paul J. Korshin; The compilation methods of Johnson's Dictionary, Anne McDermott; 17th-century jurisprudence and 18th-century lexicography: sources for Johnson’s notion of authority, John Stone; Johnson's Dictionary and legal dictionaries, J.T. Scanlan; Johnson's Dictionary and the politics of 'standard English', Nicholas Hudson. Joseph Nicol Scott and Nathan Bailey, A New Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1755): Notes on serialization and competitive publishing: Johnson's and Bailey's Dictionaries, 1755, Philip B. Gove. John Entick, The New Spelling Dictionary (1765); Ann Fisher, An Accurate New Spelling Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language (1773): John Entick's and Ann Fisher's Dictionaries: an 18th-century case of (cons)piracy, Alicia RodrÃguez-Ãlvarez and Maria Esther RodrÃguez-
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Cambridge University Press Formulaic Language and the Lexicon
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Cambridge University Press Inheritance Defaults and the Lexicon
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Cambridge University Press Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe
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Cambridge University Press Inheritance Defaults and the Lexicon
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Cambridge University Press The Lexicon
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Cambridge University Press dictionaries
Book SynopsisThis second edition of Sidney I. Landau's landmark work offers a comprehensive and completely up-to-date description of how dictionaries are researched and written, with particular attention to the ways in which computer technology has changed modern lexicography. A completely new chapter has been added and every chapter has been updated and reorganized to reflect the changes. Landau has an insider's practical knowledge of making dictionaries and every feature of the dictionary is examined and explained, with frequent examples given from the latest dictionaries of the US and Britain. A history of English lexicography is also included. The book is both practically grounded and soundly based on current lexicographic scholarship. Written in a readable style, free of jargon and unnecessary technical language, it will appeal to readers who are simply interested in dictionaries, with no specialist knowledge of the field, as well as to professional lexicographers.Trade Review'This new version is superb. It gives succinct sketches of all the important dictionaries of English from the earliest days up to now, on both sides of the Atlantic.' The Times Higher Education Supplement'Thorough and reliable this second edition (now much enlarged, but still impeccably produced) still is: let us be clear right from the start, it is an excellent book … Sidney Landau's book is an admirable achievement. I have no doubt that it will meet with the same approval as the first edition in its time, from students, teachers of general lexicography, and professional lexicographers, as well as by compilers of technical and/or scientific dictionaries - a role in which it is probably unequalled.' Henri Béjoint, International Journal of Lexicography'The book is written in simple language that non-linguists can understand easily … this new edition, like the first, makes good, comfortable reading, with its abundant notes … Sidney Landau's new book is an admirable achievement. I have no doubt that it will meet with the same approval as the first edition in its time, from students, teachers of general lexicography and professional lexicographers, as well as by compilers of technical and/or scientific dictionaries - a role in which it is probably unequalled.' International Journal of LexicographyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. What is a dictionary?; 2. A brief history of lexicography; 3. Key elements of dictionaries and other language references; 4. Definition; 5. Usage; 6. The corpus in lexicography; 7. Dictionary making; 8. Legal and ethical issues; Bibliography and index to dictionaries mentioned in the text, from Johnson (1755) to the present; A selective bibliography of nondictionary sources.
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Cambridge University Press Cambridge StreetNames Their Origins and Associations
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Cambridge University Press The Lexicon
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Cambridge University Press Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe
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Cambridge University Press Myanmar
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Cambridge University Press Recovering Old English
Book SynopsisThis Element Recovering Old English examines the philological activities of scholars involved in the recovery of Old English in the period between c. 1550 and 1830. It is done by collecting documents, recording the lexicon editing texts and studying the grammar.Table of Contents1. Preamble; 2. Collecting old English; 3. Recording old English; 4. Editing old English; 5. Studying old English; 6. Transitions and turning points; Bibliographies.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology
Book SynopsisLinguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of the aims and methods of linguistic typology, and the conclusions we can draw from them. Part I covers phonological typology, morphological typology, sociolinguistic typology and the relationships between typology, historical linguistics and grammaticalization. It also addresses typological features of mixed languages, creole languages, sign languages and secret languages. Part II features contributions on the typology of morphological processes, noun categorization devices, negation, frustrative modality, logophoricity, switch reference and motion events. Finally, Part III focuses on typological profiles of the mainland South Asia area, Australia, Quechuan and Aymaran, Eskimo-Aleut, Iroquoian, the Kampa subgroup of Arawak, Omotic, Semitic, Dravidian, the Oceanic subgroup of Austronesian and the Awuyu-Ndumut family (in West Papua). Uniting the expeTrade Review'This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of achievements and developments in the field of linguistic typology, covering the history of typology, phonological, morphological and syntactic typology, the relation of typology to historical linguistics, areal typology, sociolinguistic typology, and typological studies of sign languages. It takes account of all substantial typological studies published so far and adds a wealth of new data and analyses, based on the rich experience of the editors themselves and the expertise of a number of scholars of high competence in their respective fields.' Lars Johanson, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany'Edited by two of the world's leading typologists, this Handbook enables the reader to access a wealth of information on language structures far beyond those that have been covered in previous typological work.' Bernd Heine, Universität zu KölnTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Contributors; Abbreviations; List of figures; List of tables; Introduction. Linguistic typology: setting the scene Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R. M. W. Dixon; Part I. Domains of Linguistic Typology: 1. Phonological typology Harry van der Hulst; 2. Morphological typology Thomas E. Payne; 3. Typology and historical linguistics Silvia Luraghi; 4. Sociolinguistic typology Peter Trudgill; 5. Typology and grammaticalization Heiko Narrog; 6. Sign language typology Ulrike Zeshan and Nick Palfreyman; 7. Typology of mixed languages Peter Bakker; 8. Typology of Creole languages Aymeric Daval-Markussen and Peter Bakker; 9. Typology of secret languages and linguistic taboos Anne Storch; Part II. Typology of Grammatical Categories: 10. A typology of morphological processes: form and function David Beck; 11. A typology of noun categorization devices Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald; 12. Negation Matti Miestamo; 13. Number Edith Moravcsik; 14. A typology of frustrative marking in Amazonian languages Simon E. Overall; 15. Logophoricity Felix Ameka; 16. Switch reference John Roberts; 17. Approaches to motion event typology Eric Pederson; Part III. Typological Profiles of Linguistic Areas and Language Families: 18. Language in the mainland Southeast Asia area N. J. Enfield; 19. The Australian linguistic area R. M. W. Dixon; 20. An overview of Aymaran and Quechuan language structures Willem Adelaar; 21. The Eskimo-Aleut language family Michael Fortescue; 22. The Athabaskan (Dene) language family Keren Rice and Willem de Reuse; 23. The Iroquoian language family Marianne Mithun; 24. The Kampa subgroup of the Arawak language family Elena Mihas; 25. The Omotic language family Azeb Amha; 26. The Semitic language family Aaron D. Rubin; 27. The Dravidian language family Sanford Steever; 28. The Oceanic subgroup of the Austronesian language family Valérie Guérin; 29. The Greater Awyu-Ndumut language family of West Papua Lourens de Vries; Index of authors; Index of languages, language families and linguistic areas; Index of subjects.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries
Book SynopsisHow did a single genre of text have the power to standardise the English language across time and region, rival the Bible in notions of authority, and challenge our understanding of objectivity, prescription, and description? Since the first monolingual dictionary appeared in 1604, the genre has sparked evolution, innovation, devotion, plagiarism, and controversy. This comprehensive volume presents an overview of essential issues pertaining to dictionary style and content and a fresh narrative of the development of English dictionaries throughout the centuries. Essays on the regional and global nature of English lexicography (dictionary making) explore its power in standardising varieties of English and defining nations seeking independence from the British Empire: from Canada to the Caribbean. Leading scholars and lexicographers historically contextualise an array of dictionaries and pose urgent theoretical and methodological questions relating to their role as tools of standardisation, prestige, power, education, literacy, and national identity.Trade Review'Among the topics that crosscut the essays are the policy, purpose, and philosophy of various dictionaries, along with the evidence and technology that drive them and the economic factors that constrain them. But equally valuable, particularly for nonspecialists, will be the bits of dictionary lore that contributors bring to their work. Replete with useful illustrations, tables, and reproductions of dictionary entries, the work also provides a guide to further reading and a chronology of dictionaries and important events. This is a welcome addition to the literature on English language and linguistics. Highly Recommended.' E. L. Battistella, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction Sarah Ogilvie; Part I. Issues in English Lexicography: 2. How a word gets into an English Dictionary Kory Stamper; 3. Technology and English dictionaries Michael Rundell, Miloš Jakubíček and Vojtěch Kovář; 4. Diachronic and synchronic English dictionaries Judy Pearsall; 5. Description and prescription: the roles of English dictionaries Edward Finegan; 6. European cross-currents in English lexicography Giovanni Iamartino; 7. English slang dictionaries Michael Adams; Part II. English Dictionaries throughout the Centuries: 8. A dictionary ecosystem: four centuries of English lexicography John Considine; Seventeenth-Century English Dictionaries: Hard Words: 9. Cawdrey, Coote, and 'Hard Vsual English Wordes' Roderick W. McConchie; 10. Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English lexicography Rebecca Shapiro; Eighteenth-Century English Dictionaries: Prescriptivism and Completeness: 11. Recording the most proper and significant words Allen Reddick; 12. Samuel Johnson and the 'first English dictionary' Jack Lynch; Nineteenth-Century English Dictionaries: Descriptivism: 13. The making of American English dictionaries Michael Adams; 14. The Oxford English Dictionary Sarah Ogilvie; Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Dictionaries: 15. The English period dictionaries Robert E. Lewis and Antonette diPaolo Healey; 16. English-as-a-foreign-language lexicography Howard Jackson; 17. Electronic dictionaries Orin Hargraves; 18. English dictionaries and corpus linguistics Patrick Hanks; 19. Natural language processing in lexicography C. Paul Cook; Part III. Dictionaries of English and Related Varieties: 20. Dictionaries of Canadian English Stefan Dollinger; 21. Australian lexicography: defining a nation Pam Peters; 22. New Zealand's lexicographic legacy John Macalister; 23. Hobson-Jobson and dictionaries of Indian English Traci Nagle; 24. South African English dictionaries: from colonial to post-colonial Jill Wolvaardt; 25. Dictionaries of Caribbean English: agents of standardization Jeannette Allsopp; 26. Dictionary of American Regional English George Goebel; 27. The Scottish dictionary tradition Maggie Scott.
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Cambridge University Press Women and DictionaryMaking
Book SynopsisDictionaries are a powerful genre, perceived as authoritative and objective records of the language, impervious to personal bias. But who makes dictionaries shapes both how they are constructed and how they are used. Tracing the craft of dictionary making from the fifteenth century to the present day, this book explores the vital but little-known significance of women and gender in the creation of English language dictionaries. Women worked as dictionary patrons, collaborators, readers, compilers, and critics, while gender ideologies served, at turns, to prevent, secure, and veil women''s involvements and innovations in dictionary making. Combining historical, rhetorical, and feminist methods, this is a monumental recovery of six centuries of women''s participation in dictionary making and a robust investigation of how the social life of the genre is influenced by the social expectations of gender.Trade Review'This fascinating work seeks to reclaim the often forgotten and neglected role of women in the making of dictionaries, and is a welcome addition to the scholarly literature on lexicography.' Sarah Ogilvie, Stanford University, California and author of Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary'Russell's thorough scholarship and wide research are evidenced by densely packed in-text citations and thirty pages of references … No review of this impressive book could close without kudos to the designer, who has produced a masterpiece-simply the most beautiful cover of an academic book that I have ever come across.' Katherine J. Quigley, Language in SocietyTable of Contents1. Walking dictionary, sleeping dictionary: toward a gendered history of a rhetorical genre; 2. Patronizing dictionaries: invocations of women at the invention of the genre; 3. Compiling dictionaries: lexicography attributable to women and alternative generic traditions; 4. Living with and working for dictionaries: women's contributions and critique as the genre expanded; 5. Reinventing dictionaries: the generic interventions of feminist lexicography.
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MIT Press Ltd Linguistics An Introduction to Language and
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MIT Press Ltd Probes and Their Horizons 81 Linguistic Inquiry
Book SynopsisA comprehensive theory of selective opacity effects—configurations in which syntactic domains are opaque to some processes but transparent to others—within a Minimalist framework.In this book, Stefan Keine investigates in detail “selective opacity”— configurations in which syntactic domains are opaque to some processes but transparent to others—and develops a comprehensive theory of these syntactic configurations within a contemporary Minimalist framework. Although such configurations have traditionally been analyzed in terms of restrictions on possible sequences of movement steps, Keine finds that analogous restrictions govern long-distance dependencies that do not involve movement. He argues that the phenomenon is more widespread and abstract than previously assumed. He proposes a new approach to such effects, according to which probes that initiate the operation Agree are subject to “horizons,” which terminate their searches.
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Hendrickson Publishers Inc Analytical Lexicon of New Testament Greek
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Trivent Publishing Book Power in Communication, Sociology and
Book SynopsisIn 2012, The Library of Congress (Washington, D.C., U.S.A.) had the initiative of organizing an annual meeting which would disseminate the vision of library leaders on the importance of the book. The meeting would gather all the categories involved in the book industry: writers, publishers, editors, professors, librarians. The goal was to create a platform for discussions on how to promote the book as a crucial element for culture and education enhancement. The power of information and its dissemination was discussed within the first edition, while keeping the book as a central element in all debates. After this first edition, the Summit of the book was organized yearly in different locations throughout the world: Singapore (2013), France (2014), Egypt (2015) and Ireland (2016). The event had a powerful international impact and in 2017 the 6th summit was hosted in Brasov (Romania) at the "Transilvania" University. This volume is the collection of the most valuable contributions to the 6th Summit of the Book where experts presented their best practices and expertise in the history and technology of the book, knowledge support, and book dissemination.Table of Contents Introduction, by Angela Repanovici, Manolis Koukourakis, Tereza Khechoyan PART I. Books on the Shelves of New Technology 1. The Book in the Era of Facebook and Twitter, by Ismail Serageldin 2. Narrative Construction of Popularity Assessment Criteria on Weblogs: The Implications for Virtual Learning Environments, by C?t?lina-Ionela Rezeanu, Claudiu Coman, Angela Repanovici 3. The Importance of Digitizing Old Medical Books and Modern Medical Ethics Books in the Field of Medicine, by Nadinne Roman, Elena Amaric?i, Silviu Caloian 4. The Usefulness of Social Networks for the Dissemination of Scientific Information, by Ionel ?erban PART II. Information Society and Sources 5. The Interpretation of Knowledge Economy and the Problems of Its Rise and Development in Armenia, by Tereza Khechoyan 6. Aspects on the Harmonization of Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society in the European Union Legislation, by Cristina Mihaela Salc? Rotaru 7. The Role and Importance of Information Sources. Case Study: The European Union's Diplomacy and the Middle East Crisis at the Beginning of the 21st Century, by Ana-Maria Bolborici PART III. Books in Education 8. The Level of Awareness on Scientometrics in Higher Education, by Angela Repanovici, Manolis Koukourakis, Mihai Bogdan Alexandrescu, D. Cotoros, Liliana Rogozea, Daniela Popa 9. Romanian Students' Perceptions of Bibliotherapy in the Educational Process, by Daniela Popa, Ane Landoy, Angela Repanovici PART IV. Reading for Life 10. Reading for Life: Biblio/Poetry Therapy with Different Target Groups, by Judit Béres 11. The Role of Fairy Tales in the Self-Realization Process, by Daniela Sorea 12. The Book and the Separate Room, by Carmen Adriana Gheorghe PART V. Perspectives on Publications in Life Sciences 13. Biomechanics in Publication: Present State and Perspectives, by Ileana-Constanta Rosca 14. Representative Publications for Medical Engineering, by Corneliu Druga PART VI. Collections: Histories and Landmarks 15. The Second Life of Books from Private Collections, by Elena Harconi?a 16. The Progress and Development of the Digital Library of "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu Since 2007, by Rodica Volovici, Cristina Pârvu 17. Revista BIBLIOTECA ["The Library" Review]: 1948-2018 – A Landmark in the Professional Community of Romanian Librarians 18. The Journeys of Books, by Robert Coravu
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