Lexicography and the OED : pioneers in the untrodden forest
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Lexicography and the OED : pioneers in the untrodden forest
Oxford University Press, 2000
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"Written with the main intent of examining the first edition of The Oxford English Dictionary, originally published by the Clarendon Press between 1884 and 1928 under the title A New English Dictionary on a Historical Basis"--Pref
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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, 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, a host 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previously unpublished archive material, this collection of twelve essays provides both a range of perspectives from which the dictionary can be approached, and also explores the particular problems posed by the attempt to realize the pioneering acts of lexicography integral to the making of the
dictionary.
Table of Contents
- 1. Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest
- 2. Making the OED
- 3. OED Sources
- 4. Murray and his European Counterparts
- 5. Time and Meaning
- 6. The Compass of the Vocabulary
- 7. Words and Word-Formation
- 8. OED and the Earlier History of English
- 9. The Vocabulary of Science in the OED
- 10. Pronunciation in the OED
- 11. An Historian not a Critic
- 12. This Unique and Peerless Specimen
- Appendix 1. OED Sections and Parts
- Appendix 2. OED Personalia
- Appendix 3. The OED and the Public
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