CONTENTS
Preface
Reactions in Johnson's Dictionary to Some of Shakespeare's vocabulary. Harold B. Allen. 1
Lexicography in Spain before the 18th Century: Progress, Personalities, and Milestones. Gerald J. MacDonald, Baruch College. 9
A Survey of the Encyclopedic Tradition in English Dictionaries. Keith Roe, Pennsylvania State University. 16
How a Bilingual Dictionary Best Serves the Writer. Roger J. Steiner, University of Delaware. 24
Pronunciation keys: Principles, Practices, Performance. Robert H. Secrist, Youngstown State University. 32
Computers in Lexicography: A Preview of the Dictionary of American Regional English. Jeffrey Hirshberg. 41
The Need for Sociolinguistic Determinants for Status-Labelling in a Regional Lexicography. Richard Allsopp, University of the West Indies. 64
Distinctive Feature Labeling in Dictionaries. Dennis R. Preston, State
University of New York. 78
Acknowledgments
Part One, The History of Dictionary Making
The War of the Dictionaries in the Middle West. Allen Walker Read,
Columbia University. 3
The Social Role of the Dictionary. Raven I. McDavid, Jr., University
of Chicago. 17
Dictionary Labels for Usage Levels and Dialects. Virginia McDavid,
Chicago State University. 29
Aspects of Canadian Lexicography. Patrick Drysdale. 37
A Sketch of the History of the Dictionary of English Usage. James W.
Smith, Henderson County Junior College. 47
Pronunciation in Johnson's Dictionary. J.E. Congleton, Findlay College. 59
Attitudes Towards English Lexicography in the Seventeenth Century. James A. Riddell, California State University. 83
The Lexicon Technicum of John Harris. William J. Cameron, University of Western Ontario. 93
Antione Furetière: The Development of a Dictionary. H. Rocke Robertson. 109
Old English Lexicography: The First Eleven Decades, 1550-1659. M. Sue Hetherington, College of Charleston. 125
The Relation of the Medulla to the Earlier English Glossaries. Robert T. Meyer, Catholic University of America. 141
Part two, Dictionary Collecting
The History and Planned Development of the Cordell Collection. Fred W. Hanes. 153
Excerpts from Colloquia on Dictionary Collecting. 157
Discussion on Dictionary Collecting. 171
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
Preface
General Papers
Trade Names, Lexicographers, and the Law. Walter S. Avis, Royal Military College of Canada. 1
Semantic Categories and Regional English of Key Words in American Proverbs Found in American Dialect Society Computer Research. Stewart A. Kingsbury, Northern Michigan University. 13
Respelling: Necessity or Boondoggle? Robert H. Secrist, Youngstown State University. 23
Progress Report on a Dictionary of the Named Theoretical Concepts of Biology. Keith Roe, Pennsylvania State University. 31
Dictionary Etymologies: What? Why? And for Whom? Patrick Drysdale. 39
The Ordering of Lexemes in a Dictionary. David L. Gold, University of Haifa. 51
Modern Technology and Dictionary Making
Browsing Files for Dictionary Scholars. William J. Cameron, University of Western Ontario. 81
Spoken Usage, Status Labels, and DARE. Jeffrey Hirschberg. 109
A Computer Archive of Machine Readable Dictionaries. Donald Sherman, Stanford University. 133
Bilingual Dictionaries
Bilingual Lexicography in Vietnam: The State of the Art. Dinh-Hoa Nguyen, Southern Illinois University. 149
The Lexical Treatment of the Function Words in the Dictionary of Old English. Ashley Crandell Amos, University of Toronto. 173
Foreword
Dialectology in Seventeenth Century Dictionaries. Frederick H. Brengelman, California State University. 1
Some Interesting Words in the Middle English Genesis and Exodus. Philip G. Buehler, Drexel University. 9
Building a Collection of Early Dictionaries for Use in a Graduate Library School. William J. Cameron, University of Western Ontario. 15
Callender's Attack on Johnson's Word-List. J. E. Congleton, Findlay College. 25
Ordering the Senses in a Monolingual Dictionary Entry. David L. Gold, University of Haifa. 42
Louis E. Kahn: Profile of a Book Collector and His Books. Jean Hamer. 50
Definitions and Glossing Procedures in Medieval English Lexicography. Jeffrey F. Huntsman, Indiana University. 57
Computer Use in Medical Lexicography: IDMB. Sidney I. Landau. 61
Some Logical Chains from Compound Nouns to Their Folk Definitions. James Loriot, Summer Institute of Linguistics. 68
Editing Green's Word Book: A Dictionary of Questions. Michael I. Miller, Virginia Commonwealth University. 77
The Relation of Definitions to Their Contextual Basis. Allen Walker Read, Columbia University. 88
The Dictionary Listings Committee of the United States Trademark Association. Marcella Ann Stapor. 100
Explaining Language Variation to the Public. Michael Montgomery, University
of South Carolina. 107