Glasgow's world first for the English language
After 45 years painstaking scholarship by the English Language department of the University of Glasgow, the world’s first historical thesaurus is to be published this week.
The brainchild of Professor Michael Samuels in 1964, the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary . . . map almost every word in the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary on to a vast classification structure where words with similar meaning are grouped together and listed in chronological order from the oldest (c700 A.D.) to the most recent.
It contains nearly 800,000 meanings, 236,000 categories and subcategories in 2 volumes. READ MORE ! @ Univ of Glasgow News: 10/22/09
Structure, History, Sample Page, Brochure and Podcast @ OUP Online
Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary
With Additional Material from A Thesaurus of Old English
Christian Kay, Jane Roberts, Michael Samuels, Irene Wotherspoon
$395.00
OUP, Oct 2009
ISBN13: 9780199208999
After 45 years painstaking scholarship by the English Language department of the University of Glasgow, the world’s first historical thesaurus is to be published this week.
The brainchild of Professor Michael Samuels in 1964, the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary . . . map almost every word in the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary on to a vast classification structure where words with similar meaning are grouped together and listed in chronological order from the oldest (c700 A.D.) to the most recent.
It contains nearly 800,000 meanings, 236,000 categories and subcategories in 2 volumes. READ MORE ! @ Univ of Glasgow News: 10/22/09
Structure, History, Sample Page, Brochure and Podcast @ OUP Online
Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary
With Additional Material from A Thesaurus of Old English
Christian Kay, Jane Roberts, Michael Samuels, Irene Wotherspoon
$395.00
OUP, Oct 2009
ISBN13: 9780199208999
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