Oxford Studies in Lexicography and Lexicology – serie
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John Palsgrave as Renaissance Linguist
A Pioneer in Vernacular Language Description
Inbunden, 1997
5160 kr
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The year 1530 saw the publication in London of one of the most remarkable books of the Renaissance: Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse. The author of this vast work of over 1,000 pages was John Palsgrave, graduate of Cambridge, Paris, and Oxford, priest and chaplain to Henry VIII, and tutor to …
English Dictionaries for Foreign Learners
A History
Av A. P. Cowie
Inbunden, 1999
3340 kr
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This is the first history of dictionaries of English for foreign learners, from their origins in Japan and East Asia in the 1920s to the computerized compilations of the present. Monolingual dictionaries for foreign speakers were a revolutionary development at their outset, and now represent a …
Fixed Expressions and Idioms in English
A Corpus-Based Approach
Inbunden, 1998
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This is a text-based study of fixed expressions, or idioms. Rosamund Moon's central argument is that fixed expressions can only be fully understood if they are considered together with the texts in which they occur. She provides an overview of this area of lexis in current English. Writing from a …
Lexicography and Physicke
The Record of Sixteenth-Century English Medical Terminology
Inbunden, 1997
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Medical practitioners of the sixteenth century had their own body of special terms, just like the doctors of this century. McConchie examines medical terminology used in a selection of thirteen medical works published between 1547 and 1612, and compares it with treatment of these words in the …
Diachronic Prototype Semantics
A Contribution to Historical Lexicology
Inbunden, 1997
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Prototype theory makes a crucial distinction between the central and peripheral sense of words. Geeraerts explores the implications of this model for a theory of semantic change, in the first full-scale treatment of the impact of the most recent developments in lexicological theory on the study of …
Lexicography and the OED
Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest
Inbunden, 2000
3635 kr
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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, …
Aspects of Semantic Opposition in English
Inbunden, 1994
902 kr
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Antonymy is recongized as an important type of meaning relation in natural languages, yet there are very few detailed empirical studies of the topic. Through an analysis of a corpus of 43 contemporary English-language novels Dr Mettinger isolates ten syntactic frames within which antonyms are …
Phraseology
Theory, Analysis, and Applications
Av A. P. Cowie
Inbunden, 1998
1261 kr
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Over the last twenty years, phraseology has become a major field of pure and applied research in Western European and North American linguistics. This book is made up of authoritative contributions from leading specialists who examine the increasingly crucial role played by ready-made …
Phraseology
Theory, Analysis, and Applications
Av A. P. Cowie
Häftad, 2001
1205 kr
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Over the last twenty years phraseology has become an important field of pure and applied research in Western European and North American linguistics. In this book the world's leading specialists examine the crucial role played by ready-made word-combinations in language acquisition and adult …
English Dictionaries for Foreign Learners
A History
Av A. P. Cowie
Häftad, 2002
865 kr
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This is the first history of dictionaries of English for foreign learners from their origins in Japan and East Asa in the 1920s, to the computerized compilations of the present. Monolingual dictionaries for foreign speakers were a revolutionary development at their outset, and now represent a …
Lexicography and the OED
Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest
Häftad, 2001
968 kr
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The authors of this book draw on previously unpublished archive material to explore the pioneering endeavours of the scholars who conceived the Oxford English Dictionary and, with the assistance of an army of correspondents, brought it into being after half a century of Herculean labour. Its first …
