[Lexicog] Lexicons of Early Modern English now includes over 754, 000 word-entries

Tue Jun 7 15:35:37 UTC 2016

Lexicons of Early Modern English now includes over 754,000 word-entries!

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Lexicons of Early Modern English is an ever-expanding historical database
offering scholars unprecedented access to early books and manuscripts
documenting the growth and development of the English language. 

LEME sets the standard for modern linguistic research on the English
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LEME provides researchers with more than 754,000 word-entries from 209
monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias,
hard-word glossaries, spelling lists, and lexically-valuable treatises
surviving in print or manuscript from the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline,
Commonwealth, and Restoration periods.

LEME users rave about the vastness of the database and the unparalleled
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Recently added to Lexicons of Early Modern English -  <http://bit.ly/_leme>
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.         Mary Johnson, Madam Johnson's Present (1755)

.         Elisha Coles, The Compleat English Schoolmaster or the 

.         Most Natural and Easie Method of Spelling English (1674)

.         Benjamin N. Defoe, A New English Dictionary (1735) 

.         Nathan Bailey, Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1737)

.         White Kennett, Parochial Antiquities (1695)

.         Ortus Vocabulorum (1500)

The addition of Ortus Vocabulorum completes LEME's series of the four large
Latin and English dictionaries in manuscript and print at the end of the
fifteenth century (Promptorium Parvulorum, Catholicon Anglicum, Medulla
Grammatice in Pepys MS 2002, and Ortus).

Coming soon to LEME

.         Henry Hexham, A Copious English and Netherdutch Dictionary
(1641-42)

.         Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

Use Modern Techniques to Research Early Modern English!

209 Searchable lexicons

161 Fully analyzed lexicons

754,252 Total word entries

551,781 Fully analyzed word entries

680,473 Total analyzed forms and subforms

551,782 Total analyzed forms

128,691 Total analyzed subforms

60,891   Total English modern headwords

LEME provides exciting opportunities for research for historians of the
English language. More than a half-million word-entries devised by
contemporary speakers of early modern English describe the meaning of words,
and their equivalents in languages such as French, Italian, Spanish, Latin,
Greek, Hebrew, and other tongues encountered then in Europe, America, and
Asia.

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posted by T Hawkins

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