John Palsgrave as Renaissance Linguist: A Pioneer in Vernacular Language Description (Oxford Studies in Lexicography and Lexicology)

by Gabriele Stein (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1997

  $463.20

  When Henry VIII charged John Palsgrave with teaching his sister French, there were no dictionaries or grammars of either French or English. In Lesclarcissement de la Langue Francoyse he provided the first bilingual dictionary of the two languages. This book is a detailed study of his achievement.