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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Christian Janet Kay was Emeritus Professor of English Language and Honorary Professorial Research Fellow in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Glasgow. She was an editor, with her mentor Michael Samuels, of the world's largest and first historical thesaurus, the Historical Thesaurus of English, first published in 2009 as the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary , a project to which she dedicated 40 years .
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- Hesitation Phenomena in English Speech: A Study in Distribution (1964) (37)
- Historical Thesaurus of English (1998) (27)
- A Thesaurus of Old English (1995) (26)
- A thesaurus of Old English : in two volumes (2000) (22)
- Historical semantics and historical lexicography: will the twain ever meet? (2000) (12)
- English Historical Semantics (2015) (11)
- Metaphors we lived by: pathways between old and modern English (2000) (10)
- Diachronic and Synchronic Thesauruses (2015) (8)
- Semantic approaches to an historical thesaurus (1990) (7)
- Metaphor Map of English (2015) (7)
- COMPONENTIAL ANALYSIS IN SEMANTICS: ITS VALIDITY AND APPLICATIONS (1975) (7)
- The spread of RED in the Historical Thesaurus of English (2014) (6)
- Historical thesaurus of English: progress and plans (1994) (5)
- Historical Semantics and Historical Lexicography (2000) (3)
- Constructing a Thesaurus Database (1987) (2)
- Historical semantics and material culture (1997) (2)
- Change in the English lexicon (2016) (2)
- "RECOGNIZATE": A WORD TO FILL A GAP (1978) (2)
- Life after the Historical Thesaurus of the OED (2010) (2)
- A lexical view of two societies: a comparison of The Scots Thesaurus and A Thesaurus of Old English (1994) (2)
- How to Use the Historical Thesaurus (2010) (1)
- Word Webs: Exploring English Vocabulary (2008) (1)
- Issues for historical corpora: first catch your word (2009) (1)
- Lexis and transmission (2004) (1)
- Colour in the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (2010) (1)
- Definitions for a new age (2004) (1)
- Words and Thesauri (2015) (1)
- Developing The Historical Thesaurus of the OED (2011) (1)
- Data mining and search enhancements using the historical thesaurus of English (2011) (1)
- English Lexicographers and their Achievements (2014) (0)
- A Digital Approach to Sound Symbolism in English: Evidence from the Historical Thesaurus (2012) (0)
- History of the English language (1999) (0)
- Understanding Grammar in Scotland Today (2009) (0)
- Life after the historical thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (2010) (0)
- Preliminary English Practice Tests (1981) (0)
- Collins FCE handbook : for the revised Cambridge examination (1984) (0)
- The Sound of Scottish Writers (1999) (0)
- Footprints from the Past: The Survival of Scots Kinship Terms (2013) (0)
- Metaphor Map of Old English (2015) (0)
- Mapping metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus: 2013 report (2013) (0)
- The 'Historical Thesaurus of English' as a tool for place-name research (1998) (0)
- The Historical Thesaurus of English : past, present and future (2009) (0)
- The Basics of English Metre (1990) (0)
- English Through Pictures Book I: Guided Composition for Beginners (1979) (0)
- English Grammar: An Introduction (1992) (0)
- Norman Blake,A history of the English language. London: Macmillan, 1996. Pp. xv+382. (1998) (0)
- English Through Pictures Book II: Guided Composition for Lower Intermediate Students (1979) (0)
- "… all spirits, and are melted into air, into thin air": Metaphorical connections in the history of English (2018) (0)
- Chapter 3. “… all spirits, and are melted into air, into thin air” (2018) (0)
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