Author: Thomas BlountPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Glossographia
Author: Thomas BlountPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Glossographia Or a Dictionary
Author: Thomas BlountGlossographia
Author: Thomas BlountReckonings
Author: Stephen ChrisomalisPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026236087X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Insights from the history of numerical notation suggest that how humans write numbers is an active choice involving cognitive and social factors. Over the past 5,000 years, more than 100 methods of numerical notation--distinct ways of writing numbers--have been developed and used by specific communities. Most of these are barely known today; where they are known, they are often derided as cognitively cumbersome and outdated. In Reckonings, Stephen Chrisomalis considers how humans past and present use numerals, reinterpreting historical and archaeological representations of numerical notation and exploring the implications of why we write numbers with figures rather than words.
Glossographia
Author: Thomas BlountGlossographia Anglicana Nova
Author: Thomas BlountPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson 16041755
Author: De Witt T. StarnesPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027277729
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
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.
Numerical Notation
Author: Stephen ChrisomalisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521878187
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
This book is a cross-cultural reference volume of all attested numerical notation systems, encompassing more than 100 such systems used over the past 5,500 years. Using a typology that defies unilinear evolutionary models, Stephen Chrisomalis identifies five basic types of numerical notation systems, tracks relationships between systems, and creates a general model of change that incorporates social, historical, and cognitive factors.
Glossographia
Author: Karl Schneider, Thomas BlountPublisher: Georg Olms Verlag
ISBN: 9783487402611
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 698
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