An edition of Chaucer in early English dictionaries (1979)

Chaucer in early English dictionaries

the old-word tradition in English lexicography down to 1721 and Speght's Chaucer glossaries

By Johan Kerling

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Publish Date

1979

Publisher

Leiden University Press,distribution for the United States and Canada, Kluwer Boston

Language

eng

Pages

368

Description:

subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries, English language, Glossaries, History and criticism, Language, Lexicography, Obsolete words, Chaucer, geoffrey, -1400, study and teaching

People: Geoffrey Chaucer (d. 1400), Thomas Speght (fl. 1600)

Times: Middle English, 1100-1500