The Dictionary of Old English
Subtitle: retrospects and prospects
By: edited with an introduction by M.J. Toswell ; preface by Antonette diPaolo ; papers by Frederick M. Biggs ... [et al.].
Contributors: Toswell, M. J.; Biggs, Frederick M.; Modern Language Association of America. Old English Division.; Western Michigan University. Medieval Institute.; Western Michigan University. Richard Rawlinson Center for Anglo-Saxon Studies and Manuscript Research; Medieval Academy of America. Meeting
Series: Old English newsletter. Subsidia,; 26; Old English newsletter.; v. 26.
Publisher: Published for the Old English Division of the Modern Language Association of American by the Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University and its Richard Rawlinson Center for Anglo-Saxon Studies
Published: 1998
Place of publication: [Kalamazoo, Mich.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 87
Subjects: English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Lexicography.
Other titles: Dictionary of Old English.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"The present volume ... originates in papers delivered at a conference ... In April 1997, Prof. Jane Toswell, University of Western Ontario, organised two sessions on the topic of 'The Dictionary of Old English' ... at the annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, held at the University of Toronto"--P. 1.
Table of contents: title: The irresistible force, the immovable object, and the Dictionary of Old English / Mary Blockley; title: Verbs of negative import : a syntactic study that benefited from the Dictionary of Old English Project / Taro Ishiguro; title: Words for the Dictionary of Old English / E.G. Stanley; title: The Dictionary of Old English and Old English legal terminology / Mary Richards; title: The Exeter Exeter Book? Some linguistic evidence / Frederick M. Biggs; title: Language and method : the Dictionary of Old English and the historian / Sarah Foot.