Lexicons
of Early Modern English (LEME) gives scholars unprecedented
access to early books and manuscripts that document the English language
from the beginning of printing in England to 1702. With over 150 monolingual,
bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries and glossaries (in which either
source or target language is English), as well as linguistic treatises,
and encyclopedic or topical work
LEME provides
exciting opportunities for research for historians of the English
language. A half-million word-entries devised by contemporary speakers
of early modern English describe the meaning of words, and their equivalents
in languages such as French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Greek, Hebrew,
and other tongues encountered then in Europe, America, and Asia. LEME
offers:
• searchable
word-entries (simple, wildcard, Boolean, and proximity)
• browsable page-by-page transcriptions of the lexicons, indexed
by date, author, title, and subject
• a selection-list of editorially-lemmatized headwords
• lists of headwords unique to each lexical text in the database
• bibliographies of over 800 primary lexical texts, and secondary
historical and critical literature, with biographical information
on lexicographers
• introduction, help, and information on editorial procedures
LEME gratefully
acknowledges the generous research support of the Social Sciences
and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canada Foundation for
Innovation (CFI), and the Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR),
directed by Geoffrey Rockwell at McMaster University.
Editor
Ian Lancashire
Programmer
Marc Plamondon
Web Development
University of Toronto Library
LEME Advisory Board
Robin C. Alston
Richard W. Bailey
Antonette diPaolo Healey
Anne McDermott
Terttu Nevalainen
Noel E. Osselton
Gabriele Stein (Right Honourable Lady Quirk)
David E. Vancil
Paul Werstine
