The Lexicography of English: From Origins to Present Available to Purchase

“Dictionaries are an endless source of enjoyment, and perhaps the most important object of this book is to persuade the reader that lexicography is a fascinating domain”. So writes Henri Béjoint – who brilliantly achieves his stated objective!

Henri Béjoint is Professor Emeritus at the University of Lyon, and past president (1997‐98) of the European Association for Lexicography. Author of many academic articles, in French and in English, on dictionaries and dictionary making, his magnum opus is Tradition and Innovation in Modern English Dictionaries (Béjoint, 1994). Béjoint collaborates with Richard Wakeley in French Usage (Béjoint and Wakeley,...