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This page provides downloadable PDF files of a selection of articles mentioned in the Bibliography, divided into two sections: General and Associated with Examining the OED project.
SPECIAL NOTE: Appendix to 'Reporting Eighteenth-Century Vocabulary in the OED' available here.

General
  • Baigent, Elizabeth, Charlotte Brewer, and Vivienne Larminie, 2005. 'Women and the Archive: The Representation of Gender in the Dictionary of National Biography and the Oxford English Dictionary', Archives (Journal of the British Records Association), 30, 13-35. Click here for a preprint version
  • Brewer, Charlotte, 1993. 'The Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary', Review of English Studies, n.s. 44, 313-42. Click here for author's version
  • —— 2004. 'The Electronification of the Oxford English Dictionary', Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America, 25, 1-43. Click here for a postprint version posted with permission of the publisher (you will need to rotate the image using the appropriate icon on the Adobe toolbar in order to read the article comfortably)
  • —— 2005. 'Authority and Personality: Usage Labels in the Oxford English Dictionary', Transactions of the Philological Society, 103, 261-301. Click on the links for a preprint version (with accompanying table)
  • Fowler, Rowena, 1998. 'Robert Browning in the Oxford English Dictionary: A New Approach', Studies in Philology, 95.3 (Summer), 333-50. Click here to download PDF
  • —— 2002. 'Virginia Woolf: Lexicographer', English Language Notes, 39.3, 54-70. Click here for a postprint version
  • Gilliver, Peter, 2002. 'J. R. R. Tolkien and the OED', OED News (June); available at http://dictionary.oed.com/newsletters/2002-06/tolkien.html [accessed 12 April 2005]
  • —— 2004. '"That Brownest of Brown Studies": The Work of the Editors and In-House Staff of the Oxford English Dictionary in 1903', Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America, 25, 44-64. Click here for a postprint version posted with permission of the author and publisher
  • Hoffmann, Sebastian, 2004. 'Using the OED Quotations Database as a Corpus – a Linguistic Appraisal', ICAME Journal, 28, 17-30; available at http://helmer.aksis.uib.no/icame/ij28/hoffmann.pdf [accessed 12 April 2005]
  • Knowles, Elizabeth, 2000. 'Making the OED: Readers and Editors. A Critical Survey', in Mugglestone 2000a, pp. 22-39. Click here to download PDF (by permission of Oxford University Press)
  • McDermott, Anne, 1996. 'The Intertextual Web of Johnson's Dictionary and the Concept of Authorship', Computing in the Humanities Working Papers; available at http://chass.utoronto.ca/epc/chwp/mcdermot/ [accessed 12 August 2005]
  • Raymond, Darrell R., 1987. Dispatches From the Front: The Prefaces to the Oxford English Dictionary. Updated version of the document originally published by the UW Centre for the New Oxford Englsh Dictionary (Waterloo, Ontario) is available as a PDF at http://www.darrellraymond.com/prefaces
  • Silva, Penny, 2005. 'Johnson and the OED', International Journal of Lexicography, 18, 231-42; available at the IJL's website at http://tinyurl.com/9acjn [accessed 11 November 2005]
  • Simpson, John, 2004a. 'The OED and Collaborative Research into the History of English', Anglia, 122, 185-208. Click here for a preprint version posted with permission of the author and publisher
  • —— , Edmund Weiner, and Philip Durkin, 2004b. 'The Oxford English Dictionary Today', Transactions of the Philological Society, 102, 335-81. Click here for a postprint version posted with permission of the authors and Blackwell Publishing
  • —— 2004c. 'Will the Oxford English Dictionary be more "European" after its first comprehensive revision since its first edition of 1884-1928?', Miscelánea: a Journal of English and American Studies Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 29: 59-74. Click here for version posted with permission of the author and publisher
  • —— 2008. 'Why is the OED so small?', in Serge Vanvolsem and Laura Lepschy, eds., Nell'officina del dizionario: Atti del Convegno Internazionale organizzato dall'Istituto di Cultura Lussemburgo, Band 19: Romanische Sprachen und ihre Didaktik, ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart, pp. 113-129. Click here for version posted with permission of the author and publisher

  • Associated with Examining the OED project
    • Baigent and others, 2005 (see above)
    • Brewer, Charlotte, 2006. 'Eighteenth-Century Quotation Searches in the Oxford English Dictionary', in Selected Proceedings of the 2005 Symposium on New Approaches in English Historical Lexis (HEL-LEX), ed. R. W. McConchie and others. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 41-50; available at http://www.lingref.com/cpp/hel-lex/2005/abstract1345.html [accessed 24 March 2006]
    • —— 2007a. 'Reporting Eighteenth-Century Vocabulary in the Oxford English Dictionary', in Words and Dictionaries from the British Isles in Historical Perspective, ed. John Considine. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 104-129. Available here; accompanying appendix available here
    • —— 2009b. 'The Oxford English Dictionary's treatment of female-authored sources of the eighteenth century', Current Issues in Late Modern English, ed. Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade and Wim wan der Wurff. Bern: Peter Lang. Pre-print version available here
    • —— 2009d. 'The OED as "literary instrument": its treatment past and present of the vocabulary of Virginia Woolf', Notes & Queries (56): 430-444. Available on Oxford Journals site here  
    • —— 2010. 'The Use of Literary Quotations in the Oxford English Dictionary',
      The Review of English Studies (61): 93-125. Available on Oxford Journals site here
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