Current Projects in Historical Lexicography brings together seven papers by present and recent editors of historical dictionaries and lexical databases. The col

This volume brings together fifteen articles exploring the linguistic and literary foundations of lexicography and lexicology. Topics explored here include a di

A dictionary records a language and a cultural world. This global history of lexicography is the first survey of all the dictionaries which humans have made, fr

This volume provides concise, authoritative accounts of the approaches and methodologies of modern lexicography and of the aims and qualities of its end product

The papers in this volume show the range and direction of current work in historical semantics and word-studies. There is a strong focus throughout on semantic