John Considine
List of John Benjamins publications for which John Considine plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 0304-0712
2023 Review of Householder, Saporta & Adams (2022): Problems in Lexicography Historiographia Linguistica 50:1, pp. 134–143 | Review
2017 “Si hoc saeculo natus fuisset”: Refurbishing the Catholicon for the 16th century Latin Grammars in Transition, 1200 - 1600, Luhtala, Anneli and Mark E. Amsler (eds.), pp. 412–429 | Article
The lexicographical part of the Catholicon of Giovanni Balbi of Genoa (d.1286), compiled in 1286, was the dominant Latin dictionary of the 15th century and the first major Latin dictionary to be printed: 24 editions recorded from the 1460s to 1500, another 7 from 1501 to 1520. In the twenty-five… read more
2016 The history of the concept of lexicography History of Linguistics 2014: Selected papers from the 13th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XIII), Vila Real, Portugal, 25–29 August 2014, Assunção, Carlos, Gonçalo Fernandes and Rolf Kemmler (eds.), pp. 31–42 | Article
A problem for historians of pre-modern lexicography is that “lexicography” and indeed “dictionary” were not clearly defined categories for pre-modern scholars. This paper discusses the dictionary-like texts of medieval Latin Christendom; examines the emergence of “dictionary” as an actor’s category… read more
2011 John Lane’s Verball: A lost Elizabethan dictionary project Words in Dictionaries and History: Essays in honour of R.W. McConchie, Timofeeva, Olga and Tanja Säily (eds.), pp. 41–54 | Article
In the liminary materials to an anonymously published narrative poem, The First Booke of the Preservation of King Henry the vij (1599–1600), the author announced a dictionary project, promising – four years before the publication of Cawdrey’s Table Alphabeticall – that he would “set forth a… read more
2011 A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries. By Julie Coleman Historiographia Linguistica 38:3, pp. 389–395 | Review
2011 Leibniz as lexicographer? History of Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the eleventh International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XI), 28 August - 2 September 2008, Potsdam, Haßler, Gerda (ed.), pp. 217–224 | Article
The interests of Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646–1716) in language have been studied in a classic monograph, Leibniz als Sprachforscher by Sigrid von der Schulenburg (1885–1943), and in a number of subsequent works (see Dutz 1983, and for some later material, Müller & Heinekamp 1996:26–29).… read more
2010 Towards a History of Chinese Lexicography Historiographia Linguistica 37:1/2, pp. 133–143 | Review article
2008 Did Andreas Jäger or Georg Caspar Kirchmaier write the dissertation De lingua vetustissima Europae (1686)? Historiographia Linguistica 35:1/2, pp. 13–22 | Article
This paper attempts to establish the authorship of a milestone in the development of the concept of the Indo-European language family, the dissertation De lingua vetustissima Europae (Wittenberg, 1686). Since the work of G. J. Metcalf in 1966 and 1974, this dissertation has been ascribed to… read more