The Topical Tradition
Hullen, Werner
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Hardcover
544 pages
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Published: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN / EAN: 0198237960
This fascinating study explores the so-called topical, i.e. non-alphabetical, wordlists which appeared between the beginnings of written culture and 1700. Between the beginnings of European lexicography and 1700, many glossaries and dictionaries were not