Word Studies in the Renaissance

Gabriele Stein was Professor of English Language at the University of Heidelberg until 2006, and since then has been at University College London as a Research Associate of the English Department. She was President of the European Association for Lexicography from 1983-1986, and since 1999 has been a member of the Academia Europaea. Her publications include John Palsgrave as Renaissance Linguist (OUP 1997), Sir Thomas Elyot as Lexicographer (OUP 2014), A Usage Dictionary English-German & German-English (de Gruyter 2013), and, co-authored with Randolph Quirk, English in Use (Longman 1990).

Introduction
1. Typography in sixteenth-century English dictionaries
2. Claudius Hollyband: The author behind the lexicographer
3. On the sources of Huloets Dictionarie (1572)
4. Early polyglot word lists: Investigating their relationship
5. Hadrianus Junius' Nomenclator reconsidered
6. John Palsgrave as a sixteenth-century contrastive linguist
7. John Palsgrave's description of French word-formation
8. Peter Levins' description of word-formation (1570)
References
Index