This volume examines the ways in which Renaissance lexicographers selected, described, and analysed the lexicon. It explores the extent to which bi- and multilingual word lists and dictionaries in the 16th century are often pan-European in character, and discusses the increasing use of typography to present lexical information structure.

• Introduction


• 1: Typography in sixteenth-century English dictionaries


• 2: Claudius Hollyband: The author behind the lexicographer


• 3: On the sources of Huloets Dictionarie (1572)


• 4: Early polyglot word lists: Investigating their relationship


• 5: Hadrianus Junius' Nomenclator reconsidered


• 6: John Palsgrave as a sixteenth-century contrastive linguist


• 7: John Palsgrave's description of French word-formation


• 8: Peter Levins' description of word-formation (1570)


• References


• Index

Gabriele Stein was Professor of English Language at the University of Heidelberg until 2006, and since then has been at University College London as a Research Associate of the English Department. She was President of the European Association for Lexicography from 1983-1986, and since 1999 has been a member of the Academia Europaea. Her publications include John Palsgrave as Renaissance Linguist (OUP 1997), Sir Thomas Elyot as Lexicographer (OUP 2014), A Usage Dictionary English-German & German-English (de Gruyter 2013), and, co-authored with Randolph Quirk, English in Use (Longman 1990)