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Article: Old French-English Dictionary.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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Old French-English Dictionary. By ALAN HINDLEY, FREDERICK W. LANGLEY, and BRIAN J. LEVY. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. 621 pp. 85 [pounds sterling].
The appearance of the first major dictionary glossing Old French into modern English will be very welcome to anglophone students at all levels, especially in these days when the extensive mastery of modern French needed to use the Godefroy dictionary, or of modern German to use Tobler-Lommatzsch, cannot be taken for granted. The very brief introductory statement explains that the dictionary has been compiled from an electronic database-corpus, by mean of extracting a selection of field entries from the ...