| Old Names - New Growth: Proceedings of the 2 ND Aspns Conference, University of Graz, Austria, 6-10 June 2007, and Related Essays Contributor(s): Bierbaumer, Peter (Editor), Klug, Helmut W. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3631583168 ISBN-13: 9783631583166 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $112.58 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language - Language Arts & Disciplines | Spelling & Vocabulary - Science | Life Sciences - Botany |
| Dewey: 580 |
| LCCN: 2009517142 |
| Physical Information: 358 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For the 2nd ASPNS conference the emphasis regarding the topics of the talks was placed on lexicographic and linguistic matters. In this volume the contributors assess the various problems of working with plant names like foxes glofa and geormanleaf, pulege and psyllium, hlenortear or fornetes folm. A special study analyses the semantic aspects of Old English plant names. More generally plant related discussions deal with the mandrake legend in Anglo-Saxon England and continental Europe, the need for a new publication of the Old English Herbarium and of the Medicina de Quadrupedibus, or the tree names in Anglo-Saxon charters. The conference also served as a platform to introduce the Graz-Munich online project Dictionary of Old English Plant Names. |