Lexicography and the OED : pioneers in the untrodden forest /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Mugglestone, Lynda
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Subjects:	Oxford English dictionary. English language > Lexicography > History.

Table of Contents:

1. 'Pioneers in the untrodden forest': the New English dictionary / Lynda Mugglestone
2. Making the OED: readers and editors. A critical survey / Elizabeth Knowles
3. OED sources / Charlotte Brewer
4. Murray and his European counterparts / Noel Osselton
5. Time and meaning: sense and definition in the OED / Penny Silva
6. The compass of the vocabulary / Anne Curzan
7. Words and word-formation: morphology in OED / Dieter Kastovsky
8. OED and the earlier history of English / Eric Stanley
9. The vocabulary of science in the OED / Michael Rand Hoare and Vivian Salmon
10. Pronunciation in the OED / Michael K.C. MacMahon
11. 'An historian not a critic': the standard of usage in the OED / Lynda Mugglestone
12. 'This unique and peerless specimen': the reputation of the OED / Richard W. Bailey
Appendix I. OED sections and parts / Jenny McMorris
Appendix II. OED personalia / Peter Gilliver
Appendix III. The OED and the public / Richard W. Bailey
Index.