English lexicology and lexicography

English lexicology and lexicography

English lexicology and lexicography is that field in English language studies which examines English word-formation, the evolution of vocabulary and the composition of English dictionaries.

Bibliography

#Bauer, L. 1993. English Word-formation, “Cambridge textbooks in Linguistics”, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
#Baugh, A.C./ Cable, Th. 1993. A history of the English language. London: Routledge
#Burkett, Eva Mae. 1939. American dictionaries of the English language before 1861. New York:
#Friend, J.H. 1967. The development of American lexicography 1798-1864. The Hague: Mouton
#Green, J. 1996. Chasing the sun. Dictionary makers and the dictionaries they made. New York: Henry Holt and Co.
#Hartmann, R.K.K.1987. History of lexicography. London: Routledge
#Murray, J.A.M. 1900. Evolution of English lexicography. Oxford: Oxford University Press
#Starnes, D.T./ Noyes, G.E. 1946. The English dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, 1604-1755. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press
#Stein, G. 1985. The English dictionary before Cawdrey. (Lexicographica, Series Maior, 9). Tübingen: Niemeyer
#Murray, K.M. Elizabeth. 1977. Caught in the web of words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press
#Reddick, A. 1990. The making of Johnson's dictionary 1746-1773. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
#Snyder, K.A. 1990. Defining Webster: Mind and morals in the early republic. University Press of America

Links

* [http://screcherche.univ-lyon3.fr/lexis/ Lexis - E-Journal in English Lexicology]
* [http://angli02.kgw.tu-berlin.de/lexicography/b_history.html History of English lexicography in tables]
* [http://www.bartleby.com/228/0232.html The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes XXV. § 32.English Lexicography.]


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