The Cambridge world history of lexicography / edited by John Considine. [electronic resource]
The Cambridge world history of lexicography / edited by John Considine. [electronic resource]
The Cambridge world history of lexicography / edited by John Considine. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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English
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1 online resource (xii, 961 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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text
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computer
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online resource
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Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2019.
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A dictionary records a language and a cultural world. This global history of lexicography is the first survey of all the dictionaries which humans have made, from the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, India, and the Greco-Roman world, to the contemporary speech communities of every inhabited continent. Their makers included poets...
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The Cambridge world history of lexicography / edited by John Considine. [electronic resource]
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1-107-17886-X
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74VKV5XzREBO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV5XzREBO
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ISBN
1-316-82743-7
1-316-83629-0
1-316-83272-4
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413.028
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991024269410402626
