On the applicability of the dictionaries of Old English to linguistic research

  1. Darío Metola Rodríguez 1
  1. 1 Universidad de La Rioja
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    Universidad de La Rioja

    Logroño, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0553yr311

Journal:
Journal of English Studies

ISSN: 1576-6357

Year of publication: 2017

Issue: 15

Pages: 173-191

Type: Article

DOI: 10.18172/JES.3208 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Abstract

The aim of this article is to review the standard dictionaries of Old English from the perspective of the evolution from traditional lexicography to electronic lexicography. An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (Bosworth and Toller 1973), The student’s Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon (Sweet 1976), A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (Hall 1996) and The Dictionary of Old English in Electronic Form A-G (Healey et al. 2008) are discussed with respect to headword, alternative spellings and cross-references, vowel quantity and textual evidence.

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1 This research has been funded through the project FFI2014-59110 (MINECO), which is gratefully acknowledged.

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