[Lexicog] new books on Scottish lexicography

[Susan Rennie]

With apologies for cross-posting...


Dear All

I am happy to announce the recent publication of two books on the history of Scottish lexicography:

Susan Rennie, Jamieson’s Dictionary of Scots: The Story of the First Historical Dictionary of the Scots Language. Oxford University Press, 2012.
See http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199639403.do
(in US) http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Linguistics/?view=usa&ci=9780199639403 

This is the first full account of the making of John Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language. The dictionary was published in two volumes in 1808, with a two-volume Supplement following in 1825. Lists of Scots words had been compiled before, but Jamieson's was the first complete dictionary of the language. It was a landmark in the development of historical lexicography and was an inspiration for later lexicographers, including Sir James Murray, founding editor of the OED . This is the first study to draw on Jamieson's correspondence and the surviving manuscript materials for the Dictionary and Supplement to reveal Jamieson's working methods and the important contributions made by Sir Walter Scott and others to his work. 


Scotland in Definition – a History of Scottish Dictionaries, eds. Iseabail MacLeod and J. Derrick McClure.  John Donald, 2012.
See http://www.birlinn.co.uk/book/details/Scotland-In-Definition--A-History-of-Scottish-Dictionaries-9781906566494/
This book gives an account of Scots and Gaelic dictionaries and glossaries, and also of the contribution by many Scots to the lexicography of English, from medieval times to the major electronic projects of the twenty-first century. 


with best wishes
Susan Rennie
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