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SUMMARY:On historical language dictionaries and language boundaries - Dr L
 aura Wright (University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:George Walkden
DESCRIPTION:I work on the history of English\, and so I'm a regular user o
 f the Middle English Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary\, both i
 n their online versions. Those of us who work on earlier states of English
  necessarily routinely consult dictionaries of other languages too\, and i
 n this talk I will include the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British S
 ources and the Anglo-Norman Dictionary. I will consider the kinds of decis
 ions that historical dictionary editors make about determining which langu
 age a word belongs to\, and the several ways in which the dictionaries sig
 nal those decisions to their users. Their practice is\, in fact\, variable
 \, and this stems partially from an underlying difficulty in handling mixe
 d-language texts. I will spend some time in looking at medieval mixed-lang
 uage texts\, and in particular will question the status of the determiner 
 'le'.
LOCATION:Latimer Room\, E Staircase\, Clare College Old Court
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