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Date: 26-Sep-2012 From: Zach Borenstein <zach.borensteinoup.com> Subject: Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots: Rennie E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots
Published: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author: Susan Rennie
Hardback: ISBN: 9780199639403 Pages: 304 Price: U.S. $ 135
Abstract:
This is the first full account of the making of John Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language. The dictionary was published in two volumes in 1808, with a two-volume Supplement following in 1825. Lists of Scots words had been compiled before, but Jamieson's was the first complete dictionary of the language. It was a landmark in the development of historical lexicography and was an inspiration for later lexicographers, including Sir James Murray, founding editor of the OED. Susan Rennie's account of Jamieson's work and the methods he developed interweaves biography, lexicography, and linguistic, social, and book history to present a rounded account of the man, his work, and his times. It is the first study to draw on Jamieson's correspondence and the surviving manuscript materials for the Dictionary and Supplement to reveal Jamieson's working methods and the important contributions made by Sir Walter Scott and others to his work.
Linguistic Field(s):
Historical Linguistics
Lexicography
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