Entry layout in the history of English lexicography: Bailey 1736, Martin 1749 and Johnson 1755

Entry layout in the history of English lexicography: Bailey 1736, Martin 1749 and Johnson 1755

The present paper focuses on the history of lexicography and proposes a comparative analysis of three significant English dictionaries of the 18th century: Nathan Bailey’s Dictionarium Britannicum (second edition, 1736), Benjamin Martin’s Lingua Britannica Reformata (first edition, 1749), Samuel Joh...

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Main Author: Ruxandra Vişan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2010-01-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
Subjects:
history of lexicography
monolingual
encyclopaedic
entry complexity
Online Access:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/entry_layout_in_the_history_of_english_lexicography_bailey_1736_martin_1749_and_johnson_1755

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