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Sir Thomas Elyot as lexicographer / Gabriele Stein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stein, Gabriele.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546.
- Elyot, Thomas.
- Lexicographers--Great Britain--Biography.
- Lexicographers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (448 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Sir Thomas Elyot's Latin-English dictionary became the leading work of its kind. Gabriele Stein examines its principles, methods, and organisation, and the texts and authors Elyot used as sources. She considers the book's impact on sixteenth - and seventeenth-century dictionaries and assesses its place in Renaissance lexicography.
- Contents:
- Linking lemma and gloss in Old and Middle English word lists Elyot's linking of lemma and gloss ; Juxtaposition, punctuation, fonts ; Wh -links ; Verb links ; 6: Authorial Reference Points ; First person pronouns ; Names of relationship ; Verbs ; Situational context specifications ; Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs ; Explicit contrasts ; Third person pronouns ; Forms corresponding to Modern English someone ; Forms corresponding to Modern English one ; Forms corresponding to Modern English people ; Forms corresponding to Modern English something
- Form corresponding to Modern English anything Forms corresponding to Modern English everything ; 7: Translating and Explaining Headwords: Elyot's Predecessors ; The Medulla grammatice ; The Ortus vocabulorum ; The Promptorium parvulorum ; The Catholicon Anglicum ; Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse ; 8: Translating and Explaining Headwords: Elyot's Practice ; 9: Elyot's Achievement as a Lexicographer ; 10: Elyot's Dictionary: Impact and Influence ; Bibliography ; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-150618-4
- OCLC:
- 870795895
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