Melanie Vollbrecht
List of John Benjamins publications for which Melanie Vollbrecht plays a role.
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2024 Early modern manuscripts containing Old English dictionaries in England and northern Germany: From John Joscelyn to Dietrich von Stade Keys to the History of English: Diachronic linguistic change, morpho-syntax and lexicography, Porck, Thijs, Moragh S. Gordon and Luisella Caon (eds.), pp. 166–190 | Chapter
This paper retraces the early modern beginnings of systematic Old English studies in England and continental Europe. It shows that linguistic study was born out of research interests in the fields of theology, law, and local history to name but a few; and that scholars needed dictionaries as… read more