2011/12/20 by Javier Ruano–García · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Lexicography and Language Studies #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Linguistics and language evolution
paper · doi:10.1093/ijl/ecr039
openalex publication_date 2011/12/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2025/11/06
This volume brings together a revised selection of papers presented at the Workshop ‘Wright's English Dialect Dictionary and Beyond’ convened by the editors and Alexander Onysko at the 15th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Munich, August 2008). The Workshop was an initiative of the research project SPEED (Spoken English in Early Dialects) in Innsbruck, whose main purpose is to produce an electronic version of Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905) (henceforth EDD) that enables research into this lexicographic milestone. Published on completion of the initial stage of the project, this book is the first comprehensive approach to Wright's masterpiece, with sixteen contributions by established and young scholars that put the dictionary, its electronic version and its unearthed linguistic treasures in the very centre of interest. The chapters are preceded by a Preface by the editors in which the rationale of the project and the organisation of the book are presented. They are arranged into three themed sections reporting on the genesis of the EDD, its structure, and what has come after it. The three parts are introduced by papers written by two of the editors, with the hope that ‘they add up to the book's unification and to its being a valid contribution to both the history of Late Modern English and English dialect lexicography’ (p. 8).