Anglo-Norman Dictionary, Revised Edition: P-Q-R : PE-PEP, PES-PIZ, PO-PRIZ, PS-PUP and PUS-PUZ; Q; RA-REG, REQ-RES and RO-RUW
- Submitting institution
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Aberystwyth University / Prifysgol Aberystwyth
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 41549912
- Type
- H - Website content
- Month
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- Year
- 2020
- URL
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https://anglo-norman.net/
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Revision of c.2650 entries and c.18,000 related illustrating citations of the Anglo-Norman Dictionary (AND), Revised Edition: P- R. This product of four years’ research, forms part of an ambitious digital second edition of the AND. The research effort involved analysing 1000 sources of Anglo-Norman, in printed, digital and/or manuscript form, for semantic and linguistic evidence. Detailed semantic analyses were created, adding further to the research effort, resulting in entries sometimes ten times longer than those in the printed first edition, and with entries of over 2000 words included for the first time.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The online AND (https://anglo-norman.net/) is the standard reference work for the study of Anglo-Norman. It serves linguists researching medieval French lexis, and its findings are incorporated into, among others, the Oxford English Dictionary, the Middle English Dictionary (USA), the Dictionnaire étymologique de l’ancien français (Germany) and the Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (France). The AND is used by philologists who study Anglo-Norman Literature or historians who investigate the primary source material of British medieval history. The online publication of entries starting with the letters P, Q and R (c.4700 entries, including more than 30,000 illustrating citation), forms part of the continuing creation of the second edition of the AND.
The workload is divided between two equally-experienced editors, so that word-families are kept together and certain typically Anglo-Norman spelling variants are grouped together. Each editor produces a finished product for their sections of the alphabet. Final proof-reading is carried out by the full editorial team and external readers.
The present, entirely revised version of the dictionary is three or four times the size of the first edition and contains longer and more numerous citations from a broader and more representative body of texts. The submitted element (letters P-R inclusive) was all published in the period 2015-2020. In addition, all citations were dated and presented in chronological order, forming part of the AND’s overall conversion to a Historical Dictionary.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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