The history of lexicography : papers from the Dictionary Research Centre Seminar at Exeter, March 1986

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A concise history of the Concise Oxford dictionary / Robert E. Allan

Richelet's Dictionnaire françois (1680) as a source of La porte des sciences (1682) and Le Roux's Dictionaire comique (1718) / Laurent Bray

The history of pronunciation in English-language dictionaries / Arthur J. Bronstein

A brief history of Chinese bilingual lexicography / David Chien & Thomas Creamer

How abstract is the English dictionary? / Frederic Dolezal

The development of the bilingual English-Arabic dictionary from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present / Nawal El-Badry

The beginnings of lexicography in Croatia / Rudolf Filipović

Afrikaans lexicography / Rufus H. Gouws

The duden rechtschreibung 1880-1986 : development and function of a popular dictionary / Glyn Hatherall

Learned lexicographers of the north : seventeenth-century vignettes / Einar Haugen

The entry in medieval Arabic monolingual dictionaries : some aspects of arrangement and content / John A. Haywood

The paradigm of John Wilkins' thesaurus / Werner Hüllen

Lexicographic archaeology : comparing dictionaries in the same family / Robert F. Ilson

The humanist period in Renaissance bilingual lexicography / Douglas A. Kibbee

Lásló Orzágh the lexicographer / Tamás Magay

Thematic lexicography / Tom McArthur

Four remarks on the prehistory of historical lexicgraphy / Reuven Merkin

The first English dictionary? A sixteenth-century compiler at work / Noel E. Osselton

The development of the general monolingual dictionary in Poland / Tadeusz Piotrowski

Competing lexicographical traditions in America / Allen Walker Read

The bilingual dictionary : victim of its own tradition? / Mary Snell-Hornby

Sixteenth-century recension in Spanish and English lexicography / Roger J. Steiner. Appendix A. Bibliography of cited dictionaries; Appendix B. Seminar programme; Appendix C. List of participants