Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries
- The Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Issues in English Lexicography
- Part II English Dictionaries Throughout the Centuries
- Chapter 8 A Dictionary Ecosystem: Four Centuries of English Lexicography
- Seventeenth-Century English Dictionaries: Hard Words
- Eighteenth-Century English Dictionaries: Prescriptivism and Completeness
- Nineteenth-Century English Dictionaries: Descriptivism
- Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Dictionaries
- Part III Dictionaries of English and Related Varieties
- Guide to Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Literature
Eighteenth-Century English Dictionaries: Prescriptivism and Completeness
from Part II - English Dictionaries Throughout the Centuries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2020
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries
- The Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Issues in English Lexicography
- Part II English Dictionaries Throughout the Centuries
- Chapter 8 A Dictionary Ecosystem: Four Centuries of English Lexicography
- Seventeenth-Century English Dictionaries: Hard Words
- Eighteenth-Century English Dictionaries: Prescriptivism and Completeness
- Nineteenth-Century English Dictionaries: Descriptivism
- Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Dictionaries
- Part III Dictionaries of English and Related Varieties
- Guide to Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Literature
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- The Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries , pp. 127 - 154Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020