Johnson's and Webster's Verbal Examples
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Johnson's and Webster's Verbal Examples

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Johnson's and Webster's Verbal Examples

About this book

This book analyses Noah Webster's and Samuel Johnson's use of verbal examples in their dictionaries as a means of giving guidance on word usage. The author's major interest lies in elucidating how uniquely Webster, who was originally a grammarian, made use of verbal examples. In order to achieve this purpose, the author provides chapters based on types of entry words in their functional contexts. Johnson's selection of sources of citations and the frequency of his quoting citations tended to vary strongly according to the type of entry word; he also supplied invented examples rather than citations when he thought it especially necessary to clarify the use of a word. By contrast, with the exception of biblical ones, almost all of Webster's citations were taken from Johnson's »Dictionary«. However, Webster significantly made full use of such citations to express his view on word usage, which differs essentially from Johnson's. Besides, Webster had a strong tendency to quote phrases and sentences from the Bible for the same purpose.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9783484391321
eBook ISBN
9783484970939
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Table of Contents
  3. List of Tables
  4. Abbreviations and Special Conventions Used in the Thesis
  5. 1: Introduction
  6. 2: Methodology
  7. 3: The Historical Background of Johnson’s and Webster’s Dictionaries
  8. 4: Johnson's and Webster's Usual Practices in Supplying Verbal Examples
  9. 5: Verbal Examples in Entries on Verbs of High Frequency and the Inflected Forms of Such Verbs
  10. 6: Verbal Examples in Entries on Prepositions and Prepositional Adverbs
  11. 7: Verbal Examples for Adjective-preposition and Verb-preposition Collocations
  12. 8: Verbal Examples Supplied for the Treatment of Modal Auxiliaries and Primary Verbs
  13. 9: Conclusion
  14. Backmatter