{"title":"From Mandarin to Cantonese lexicography","authors":"Rui Li","doi":"10.1075/hl.00118.li","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n The Vocabulary of the Canton Dialect, compiled by Robert Morrison (1782–1834) and published in\n 1828 in Macao, was the first bilingual dictionary of Cantonese in a Western language. This article traces the genealogy of the\n Vocabulary by examining Morrison’s sources. It is shown how Morrison availed himself of the resources of\n Mandarin dictionaries and of the lexicographical work on Cantonese undertaken in the 1820s.","PeriodicalId":51928,"journal":{"name":"Historiographia Linguistica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Historiographia Linguistica","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.00118.li","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The Vocabulary of the Canton Dialect, compiled by Robert Morrison (1782–1834) and published in
1828 in Macao, was the first bilingual dictionary of Cantonese in a Western language. This article traces the genealogy of the
Vocabulary by examining Morrison’s sources. It is shown how Morrison availed himself of the resources of
Mandarin dictionaries and of the lexicographical work on Cantonese undertaken in the 1820s.
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Historiographia Linguistica (HL) serves the ever growing community of scholars interested in the history of the sciences concerned with language such as linguistics, philology, anthropology, sociology, pedagogy, psychology, neurology, and other disciplines. Central objectives of HL are the critical presentation of the origin and development of particular ideas, concepts, methods, schools of thought or trends, and the discussion of the methodological and philosophical foundations of a historiography of the language sciences, including its relationship with the history and philosophy of science. HL is published in 3 issues per year of about 450 pages altogether.