Author: Sir William Alexander CraigiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scots language
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: H-L
Author: Sir William Alexander CraigiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scots language
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue from the Twelfth Century to the End of the Seventeenth: Volume 3, H-L
Author: Sir William CraigiePublisher: Aberdeen University Press
ISBN: 9780080306445
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue defines and illustrates every meaning of every word used in written English in Scotland up to 1700, when the Scots language merged with standard English. It touches every facet of medieval and renaissance Scottish life and society and supplies a wealth of illustration in the form of quotations accompanying every word and meaning it discusses. It is an indispensable reference tool for historians of Scots language, literature, politics, law, medicine, agriculture, and all other aspects of Scottish society. This 'Scots OED' is published in paper-bound parts (fascicles) and also as volumes, each containing several parts. The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue is unique and has no competition.
A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
Author: Sir William Alexander CraigiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
Author: William A. CraigiePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780080306469
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book is intended for all students, scholars, and enthusiasts in the fields of Scots language and history.
A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
Author: William A. CraigiePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780080306643
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
This book is intended for all students, scholars, and enthusiasts in the fields of Scots language and history.
A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
Author: William Alexander CraigiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Perspectives on the Older Scottish Tongue
Author: Christian KayPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474469701
Category : Dictionary of the older Scottish tongue
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This volume celebrates the completion of the monumental Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue.
The Oxford History of English Lexicography
Author: A. P. CowiePublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191558079
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1017
Book Description
These substantial volumes present the fullest account yet published of the lexicography of English from its origins in medieval glosses, through its rapid development in the eighteenth century, to a fully-established high-tech industry that is as reliant as ever on learning and scholarship. The history covers dictionaries of English and its national varieties, including American English, with numerous references to developments in Europe and elsewhere which have influenced the course of English lexicography. Part one of Volume I explores the early development of glosses and bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and examines their influence on lexicographical methods and ideas. Part two presents a systematic history of monolingual dictionaries of English and includes extensive chapters on Johnson, Webster and his successors in the USA, and the OED. It also contains descriptions of the development of dictionaries of national and regional varieties, and of Old and Middle English, and concludes with an account of the computerization of the OED. The specialized dictionaries described in Volume II include dictionaries of science, dialects, synonyms, etymology, pronunciation, slang and cant, quotations, phraseology, and personal and place names. This volume also includes an account of the inception and development of dictionaries developed for particular users, especially foreign learners of English. The Oxford History of English Lexicography unites scholarship with readability. It provides a unique and accessible reference for scholars and professional lexicographers and offers a series of fascinating encounters with the men and women involved over the centuries in the making of works of profound national and linguistic importance.
American Language Supplement 1
Author: H.L. MenckenPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307808785
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Perhaps the first truly important book about the divergence of American English from its British roots, this survey of the language as it was spoken-and as it was changing-at the beginning of the 20th century comes via one of its most inveterate watchers, journalist, critic, and editor HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN (1880-1956).In this replica of the 1921 "revised and enlarged" second edition, Mencken turns his keen ear on: • the general character of American English • loan-words and non-English influences • expletives and forbidden words • American slang • the future of the language • and much, much more. Anyone fascinated by words will find this a thoroughly enthralling look at the most changeable language on the face of the planet.
Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue from the Twelfth Century to the End of the Seventeenth: Volume 10, Stra-3ere
Author: Margaret G. DareauPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198605423
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue defines and illustrates every meaning of every word used in written English in Scotland up to 1700. It is an indispensable reference tool for historians of Scots language, literature, politics, law, and social history.