Lexicography and the OED
Subtitle: pioneers in the untrodden forest
By: edited by Lynda Mugglestone.
Contributors: Mugglestone, Lynda.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Oxford English dictionary; Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- History and criticism; English language -- Lexicography; English language -- Etymology
Other titles: Lexicography and the Oxford English Dictionary
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-284) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. 'Pioneers in the untrodden forest': the New English dictionary / Lynda Mugglestone; title: 2. Making the OED: readers and editors: A critical survey / Elizabeth Knowles; title: 3. OED sources / Charlotte Brewer; title: 4. Murray and his European counterparts / Noel Osselton; title: 5. Time and meaning: sense and definition in the OED / Penny Silva; title: 6. The compass of the vocabulary / Anne Curzan; title: 7. Words and word-formation: morphology in OED / Dieter Kastovsky; title: 8. OED and the earlier history of English / Eric Stanley; title: 9. The vocabulary of science in the OED / Michael Rand Hoare and Vivian Salmon; title: 10. Pronunciation in the OED / Michael K.C. MacMahon; title: 11. 'An historian not a critic': the standard of usage in the OED / Lynda Mugglestone; title: 12. 'This unique and peerless specimen': the reputation of the OED / Richard W. Bailey; title: Appendix I. OED sections and parts / Jenny McMorris; title: Appendix II. OED personalia / Peter Gilliver; title: Appendix III. The OED and the public / Richard W. Bailey; title: Index.