The Acorn of the Oak: A Stylistic Approach to Lexicographical Method in Cawdrey's A Table Alphabeticall

CHWP B.11, publ. May 1996. © Editors of CHWP 1996. [First published in CCH Working Papers, vol. 4 (1994) and in Dictionnairique et lexicographie, Paris, Didier Érudition, vol. 3: Informatique et dictionnaires anciens (1995).]

[Abstract / Résumé]

KEYWORDS
Cawdrey, first English monolingual dictionary, unique elements, definitions, compilation process, syntactic structures

1. Introduction: The First Monolingual Dictionary in English
2. Cawdrey's Sources and their Incorporation
3. Methodology and Tools
4. Cawdrey's Stylistic Structures
5. Conclusion: Assessing the Structures
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