John Palsgrave As Renaissance Linguist A

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 , a vast work of over 1000 pages, this brilliant priest and linguist, with a dramatist's eye for contemporary life and an ear for colloquial idiom, provided the first bilingual dictionary and contrastive grammar of the two languages. Stein presents a detailed study of his achievement.

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1. John Palsgrave: Clerk, Royal Schoolmaster and Chaplain

1

(36)

2. Lesclarcissement: Composition, Production, and Structure

37

(42)

3. Linguistic Provenance: What are the Languages Palsgrave is Describing?

79

(45)

4. The Word List

124

(50)

5. Literary Citations

174

(20)

6. Lemmatization and Headword Structure

194

(61)

7. Networks and Structural Relations

255

(36)

8. The French Translation Equivalents

291

(48)

9. How Things were Done with Words

339

(47)

10. A Picture of Palsgrave's World

386

(59)

11. Palsgrave in Perspective

445

(22)

Bibliography

467

(38)

Index

505

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