From Mandarin to Cantonese Lexicography

A genealogical study of Robert Morrison’s Vocabulary of the Canton Dialect (1828)

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ID4884433
AuthorsRui Li (0000-0001-9744-7965, Guangdong University of Finance & Economics, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume49
Issue2-3
Pages235-266
Publication date2022-12-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistoriographia Linguistica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0302-5160 • E-ISSN: 1569-9781
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/hl.00118.li
OpenAlexW4385233596
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited19

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

Lexicography · Linguistics · Mandarin Chinese · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Lexicography and Language Studies · Philosophy · Translation Studies and Practices

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