26.819, FYI: Historical Thesaurus of English Online

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LINGUIST List: Vol-26-819. Mon Feb 09 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.819, FYI: Historical Thesaurus of English Online

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Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 11:33:51
From: Marc Alexander [marc.alexander at glasgow.ac.uk]
Subject: Historical Thesaurus of English Online

 
For the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Historical Thesaurus of
English, the University of Glasgow has made the latest version of the
Thesaurus freely-available online at www.glasgow.ac.uk/thesaurus. 

The Historical Thesaurus takes all the words in the 1300-year history of
English and arranges them into a vast hierarchy of meanings to form a unique
record of the language and its speakers. The Thesaurus is not just the world's
only historical thesaurus, but it is also by far the largest and most complete
thesaurus of English in any period, containing 793,742 word forms arranged
into 225,131 meaning categories. 

To create this resource, a team of over 230 people spent more than four
decades dismantling dictionaries - including the 20-volume Oxford English
Dictionary - into their constituent words, noting their meanings and dates of
use, and then reassembling the words into wholly new groupings based on those
meanings. The new website presents the revised version 4.2 of the data, and is
designed to be used on mobile phones and tablets as well as desktop and laptop
computers. The site contains comprehensive About pages with information,
photographs and links to further details on the project and its history. 

We hope the new website is of use to linguists, historians, literary scholars,
digital humanists, and the scholarly community at large.

All best wishes,

Marc 
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Dr Marc Gabriel Alexander
Senior Lecturer in English Language, University of Glasgow
+44 141 330 6501 | marc.alexander at glasgow.ac.uk | @MarcGAlexander
Director, Historical Thesaurus of English 
http://www.glasgow.ac.uk/thesaurus/
The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401
 



Linguistic Field(s): Lexicography
                     Semantics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)





 






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