The Oxford History of English Lexicography
Volume I: General-Purpose Dictionaries; Volume II: Specialized Dictionaries
Two-volume set
Edited by A. P. Cowie
Table of Contents
Volume I: General-purpose Dictionaries
1:Introduction, A. P. Cowie
Part I. Early Glossaries; Bilingual, and Multilingual Dictionaries
2:Glosses, Glossaries, and Dictionaries in the Medieval Period, Hans Sauer
3:Bilingual and Multilingual Dictionaries of the Renaissance and Early Seventeenth Century, Janet Bately
4:Bilingual Dictionaries of the Late Seventeeth and Eighteenth Centuries, Monique Cormier
5:Bilingual Dictionaries of the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Centuries, Carla Marello
6:Bilingual Dictionaries of English and Russian in the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries, Donna Farina and George Durman
Part 2. The History of English Monolingual Dictionaries
7:The Early Development of the English Monolingual Dictionary Seventeenth and Early Eighteenthth Centuries, Noel Osselton
8:Johnson and Richardson, Allen Reddick
9:Major American Dictionaries, Sidney Landau
10:The Oxford English Dictionary, Lynda Mugglestone
11:The OED Supplements, Charlotte Brewer
12:National and Regional Dictionaries of English, Richard Bailey
13:Dictionaries of Scots, Margaret Dareau and Iseabail Macleod
14:The Period Dictionaries, Michael Adams
15:Dictionaries of Caribbean English, Jeannette Allsopp
16:The Electronic OED: the computerization of a historical dictionary, Edmund Weiner
References
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
Volume II: Specialized Dictionaries
Part 1. Dictionaries Specialized According to Ordering of Entries, Topical or Linguistic Content, or Speech Community
1:Dictionaries of Synonyms and Thesauri, Werner Hüllen
2:Scientific and Technical Dictionaries, Michael Hoare
3:Dictionaries of Place-names, Carole Hough
4:Dictionaries of Personal Names, Patrick Hanks
5:Pronouncing Dictionaries - i Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, Joan Beal
6:Pronouncing Dictionaries - ii Mid to Late-Nineteenth Century, Beverley Collins and Inger Mees
7:Syntagmatic and Phraseological Dictionaries, Thomas Herbst and Michael Klotz
8:Dictionaries of Quotations, Elizabeth Knowles
9:English Etymological Dictionaries, Anatoly Liberman
10:Dialect Dictionaries, Robert Penhallurick
11:Slang and Cant Dictionaries, Julie Coleman
Part 2. Dictionaries Specialized According to Uses and Users
12:Dictionaries of Usage, Robert Allen
13:The American Collegiate Dictionaries, Sidney Landau
14:The Earliest Foreign Learners' Dictionaries, A. P. Cowie
15:Linguistic Research and Learner's Dictionaries: The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Thierry Fontenelle
16:The Cobuild Project, Rosamund Moon
17:Dictionaries in Electronic Form, Hilary Nesi
References
Index of Names
Index of Subjects