Author(s): Åermin KALAFATïª
Sir James William Redhouse’s dictionary entitled as ?azinetü’l-?Azîziyye fi’l-lu ?âti’l -?Osmâniyye, which was considered to be non -extant, had recently been found. However, Redhouse had written neither in his correspondence nor in the fourth volume of thiswork about his lexicological methodology. In order to have an idea on this matter, after having introduced Redhouse’s intellectual trajectory with some new biographical findings, in this article we compare the headwords of this dictionary with some of his better known lexicological works, namely Muntahabât-? lugât -? ?Osmâniyye as well as his Turkish and English Lexicon so as to analyze the evolving phases in his methodology. More specifically, the prepublication sample on the alif section (two folios) of ?azinetü’l- ?Azîziyye fi’l -lu ?âti’l -?Osmâniyye is systematically compared with relevant pages of two other published dictionarie
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