At the End of the Alphabet

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1. Historical Thesaurus of English At the End of the Alphabet Marc Alexander
 university of glasgow
2. Historical Thesaurus of English 2 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n
3. Historical Thesaurus of English 3 artificial arrangement fragments relationships disconnects meaning
4. Historical Thesaurus of English 4 efficient physical lookup
5. Historical Thesaurus of English
6. Historical Thesaurus of English 6 […]in contrast to the closed systems of phonology and grammar, the huge open system of lexis demands nothing less than classification, by meaning, of the whole if one is to begin to understand the parts. 
 Kay et al 2009: xiv
7. Historical Thesaurus of English 7
8. Historical Thesaurus of English 8 ⋆ Ǽ Samuels-Kay Principles
9. Historical Thesaurus of English 9 ⋆ Ǽ dating Samuels-Kay Principles
10. Historical Thesaurus of English 10 uniqueness ⋆ Ǽ Samuels-Kay Principles
11. Historical Thesaurus of English 11 integration ⋆ Ǽ Samuels-Kay Principles
12. Historical Thesaurus of English 12 rationalization ⋆ Ǽ Samuels-Kay Principles
13. Historical Thesaurus of English 13 worldview ⋆ Ǽ Samuels-Kay Principles
14. Historical Thesaurus of English 14 ⋆ Ǽ Samuels-Kay Principles
15. Historical Thesaurus of English 15 dating race < ræs
 oe + 1480 – a1649 01.01.05.09.01 n Current
16. Historical Thesaurus of English 16 dating race < ræs
 oe + 1480 – a1649 01.01.05.09.01 n Current
17. Historical Thesaurus of English 17 dating 01.01.05.02.05|04 n Stream :: rivulet/runnel rindle < rinnelle/rynel OE–1686 + c1746–1861 dial. & poet. running a1325–1650 + 1890 stripe c1440– Scots ruissel c1477–1483 channel 1483–1705 riveret 1538–1670 + 1807 runnel 1577– run 1581– chiefly US & northern English rundle 1587–1651 + 1877/86 dial. rivulet 1587– [...]
18. Historical Thesaurus of English 18 ⋆ uniqueness 01.02.02.03.05.02.07|04 n Health and disease Medicinal potion/draught :: medicated wine wine 1652– 01.02.05.13.09.02.02|06.14 n Plants Tree/plant producing edible berries :: grape-vine wine 1340/70– 1632 01.02.09.02.02.02 n Food and drink Wine wine OE– 01.02.09.02.02.02.12 n Food and drink Non-grape and home-made wines wine 1398– 01.02.09.02.14.01|08 vt Make wine store wine/stock cellar wine c1645 01.02.09.02.19|05 vt Provide/serve (with) drink supply with specific drink wine 1862– 01.02.09.02.20.01|18 n Food and drink Drinking vessel :: glass wine 1848– 01.02.09.02.21|10.09 vi Drink drink intoxicating liquor :: drink wine wine
 (and dine) 1829– 01.04.09.07.03|02.02 n Colour Red/redness :: shades of red :: deep red /crimson wine 1895– 01.04.09.07.03|07 aj Pertaining to colour Red :: deep red/crimson wine 1950– 03.07.05.15.07.02 n Artefacts Wine wine OE– 03.11.02.05.01|11 n Social event Party :: drinking-party wine 1857–
19. Historical Thesaurus of English 19 integration OED TOE (Clark Hall, Bosworth-Toller) Chambers Concise Oxford
20. Historical Thesaurus of English 20 rationalization oe participles and participial adjectives fine-grained-ness of adjectives/adverbs as opposed to their related noun transitivity of derived verbal forms
21. Historical Thesaurus of English 21 Ǽ worldview what is it for rather than what is it
22. Historical Thesaurus of English 22 Ǽ worldview evolution of worldviews medicine Church music
23. Historical Thesaurus of English 23 Ǽ worldview Classification under scientific principles, i.e., based on the natural characteristics of the plants, would produce a relatively one-dimensional picture of the semantic field because it would fail to reflect relationships that exist between names of plants that are not necessarily related in the natural world. […] The ‘non-scientific’ relationships, such as exist between words for plants grown in gardens, plants perceived as weeds, plants used as narcotics, etc. are, for the majority of people, the most meaningful. And this is why so many of our plant-terms cannot be incorporated into a system that is basically scientific. 
 Cerwyss O'Hare, Plants [internal notes], c1987
24. Historical Thesaurus of English 24 principle of least extension “lava and volcanic ash, for example, are classified with volcano rather than with stone or dust” Ǽ worldview
25. Historical Thesaurus of English 25 wide extension (including study/theory), agent nouns, part, kind, degree, function, position Ǽ worldview
26. Historical Thesaurus of English 26 Roget-style polarity (II The Mental World) Tripartite systems Wave systems musical instruments? visibility? Ǽ worldview
27. Historical Thesaurus of English 27 ⋆ Ǽ Samuels-Kay Principles “The thesaurus slip-maker is not mechanically transferring data from one format to another, but is continually making judgements about the appropriateness of that information for his or her purpose.” Kay and Wotherspoon 2002: 109
28. Historical Thesaurus of English 28 ⋆ Ǽ Samuels-Kay Principles “Time and practice are the only ways to learn. Do not get bogged down, confused and bewildered.” Christian Kay, Classifying [internal notes], c1980s
29. Historical Thesaurus of English 29 why?
30. Historical Thesaurus of English 30 ⋆ Ǽ
31. Historical Thesaurus of English 31 dating A Semantic History of English ⋆ Ǽ
32. 80,000 160,000 240,000 320,000 400,000 1050 1150 1250 1350 1450 1550 1650 1750 1850 1950 15,343 15,343 15,405 18,257 21,841 30,857 37,408 67,229 75,396 85,249 106,314 152,212 184,602 199,224 205,892 220,539 248,448 278,415 334,064 363,039 Middle English Early Modern English Later Modern English Old English
33. 80,000 160,000 240,000 320,000 400,000 1050 1150 1250 1350 1450 1550 1650 1750 1850 1950 15,343 15,343 15,405 18,257 21,841 30,857 37,408 67,229 75,396 85,249 106,314 152,212 184,602 199,224 205,892 220,539 248,448 278,415 334,064 363,039 Middle English Early Modern English Later Modern English Old English R2 = 0.9901
34. 1100 1125 1150 1175 1200 1225 1250 1275 1300 1325 1350 1375 1400 1425 1450 1475 1500 1525 1550 1575 1600 1625 1650 1675 1700 1725 1750 1775 1800 1825 1850 1875 1900 1925 1950 1975 2000 01.01.05.04 Fountain 1100 1125 1150 1175 1200 1225 1250 1275 1300 1325 1350 1375 1400 1425 1450 1475 1500 1525 1550 1575 1600 1625 1650 1675 1700 1725 1750 1775 1800 1825 1850 1875 1900 1925 1950 1975 2000 01.01.10.13 Astrology 1100 1125 1150 1175 1200 1225 1250 1275 1300 1325 1350 1375 1400 1425 1450 1475 1500 1525 1550 1575 1600 1625 1650 1675 1700 1725 1750 1775 1800 1825 1850 1875 1900 1925 1950 1975 2000 01.03.06.01 Inodorousness
35. Historical Thesaurus of English 35 uniqueness Mapping Metaphor ⋆ Ǽ
39. Historical Thesaurus of English 39 rationalization Historical Thesaurus Semantic Tagger ⋆ Ǽ
40. Data Deluge, Brett Ryder, The Economist, Feb. 2010
43. Historical Thesaurus of English 43 worldview Cross-Categorical Studies ⋆ Ǽ
44. (AVERAGE) White Black Red Green Yellow Blue Brown Grey Orange Purple Pink Change Change - Dye Change - Pigment Base Terms Base which Intensifies Object Variant Variant with Colour Word Variant which Intensifies Variant with ‘-ish’
45. Historical Thesaurus of English 45
46. Historical Thesaurus of English www.glasgow.ac.uk/thesaurus