Old Words in Chaucer Dictionaries as the Linguistic Heritage of Great Britain.
- Author / Editor
- Melentyeva, Olga A.
Old Words in Chaucer Dictionaries as the Linguistic Heritage of Great Britain.
- Physical Description
- O. M. Karpova and F. I. Kartashkova, eds. Life beyond Dictionaries (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2015), pp. 76-90.
- Description
- Surveys the tradition of English "old word" and "hard word" dictionary- and glossary-making, locating Chaucerian compilations (e.g., Greaves, Speght, Urry, etc.) at the beginning of the tradition and tracing developments in practice into the twentieth century. Calls for a more comprehensive reference work that documents and exemplifies the history of linguistic and encyclopedic information pertaining to difficult words in Chaucer's lexicon.
- Contributor
- Karpova, O. M., ed.
Kartashkova, F. I., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Life beyond Dictionaries
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies