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Can I read Small Dictionaries and Curiosity : Lexicography and Fieldwork in Post-Medieval Europe on EtoBox?
Small Dictionaries and Curiosity : Lexicography and Fieldwork in Post-Medieval Europe by John P Considine is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Small Dictionaries and Curiosity : Lexicography and Fieldwork in Post-Medieval Europe about?
Small Dictionaries and Curiosity tells a story which has not been told before, that of the first European wordlists of minority and unofficial languages and dialects, from the end of the Middle Ages to the early nineteenth century. These wordlists were collected by people who were curious about the unrecorded or little-known languages they heard around them. Between them, they document more than 40 language varieties, from a Basque-Icelandic pidgin of the North Atlantic to the Kalmyk language of
Who reads Small Dictionaries and Curiosity : Lexicography and Fieldwork in Post-Medieval Europe?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- John P Considine
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780198785019
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Linguistics, History, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25