Word Studies in the Renaissance

by Gabriele Stein

The book examines the work of Renaissance lexicographers such as John Palsgrave, Claudius Hollyband, Richard Huloet, and Peter Levins, with particular focus on the author at work: the struggles of these lexicographers to understand the semantic range of a word and to explain and transpose it into another language; their assessment of different linguistic and cultural expressions, and their morphological analyses; and their efforts to find ways of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198807376
• ISBN13: 9780198807377
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"