An Early Modern English Dictionaries Corpus 1499-1659

CHWP B.17, publ. September 1996. © Editors of CHWP 1996. [First published in CCH Working Papers, 4 (1994) and Dictionnairique et lexicographie, 3 (1995).]

[Abstract / Résumé]

KEYWORDS
Early Modern English dictionaries, Palsgrave, Elyot, Thomas, Florio, Cotgrave, Cawdrey, Blount, definition, meaning, interpretation, equivalence, etymology, denotation

1. The Texts
2. What Modern Lexicographers Tell us about Lexical Meaning
3. What Renaissance Dictionaries Tell us about Lexical Meaning
4. An Example: the Word timber
5. Conclusion
Bibliography

[Editors' note: Diacritics marking the vowel length of Latin words, present in the print version of this article but redundant for word identity, have been omitted here as they cannot be represented by HTML markup.]