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Abstract

Summary

During his work on his (18421843) Walter Henry Medhurst (1796–1857) dramatically changed his compilation strategy by shifting from depending almost exclusively on Robert Morrison’s (1782–1834) Chinese-English dictionary, 字典 (1815–1823) to depending on multiple sources including 康熙字典 (1716), Morrison’s 五車韻府 (18191820), and Medhurst’s own (1832). By applying Lexicographic Archaeology to four linguistic case studies, this article discusses the reasons for this unusual lexicographical phenomenon. The authors argue that changes in information in Morrison’s after the 41st radical influenced Medhurst’s choices.

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