The historical thesaurus of English / edited by Christian Kay, Jane Roberts, Michael Samuels, Irené Wotherspoon.

Format:

Database & Article Index

Website/Database

Contributor:

Kay, Christian.

Roberts, Jane, 1936-

Samuels, Michael.

Wotherspoom, Irene.

University of Glasgow.

University of Glasgow. School of Critical Studies.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Synonyms and antonyms--Dictionaries.

English language.

English language--Synonyms and antonyms--History--Dictionaries.

English language--Synonyms and antonyms.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Glasgow : University of Glasgow, [2015]-

System Details:

Mode of access: WWW.

Summary:

"The Historical Thesaurus of English is a unique resource charting the semantic development of the huge and varied vocabulary of English. It is the first historical thesaurus ever produced for any language, containing almost every word in English from Old English to the present day. Of major interest to historians, philologists, linguists, and the general reader, the Thesaurus is an unrivalled resource for the historical study of the language. It is based on a comprehensive analysis of English as found in the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and A Thesaurus of Old English (for words restricted to the Old English period of c.700-1150 AD). All these words and their dates of recorded use are displayed within a detailed semantic framework, offering a fascinating picture of the development of the vocabulary of English from its origins in Anglo-Saxon times to the present. Such an arrangement casts new light on the relationship between the things and ideas people talk about and the words they use and have used in the past, as well as on the words themselves. By browsing through the Thesaurus, or examining one of its categories in detail, the reader will encounter a huge variety of intriguing words from many different sources, ranging from the rare or obsolete to those which have been in daily use for hundreds of years or introduced recently. This online version enables users to pinpoint the range of meanings of a word throughout its history, their synonyms, and their relationship to words of more general or more specific meaning. In addition to providing hitherto unavailable information for linguists, historians of language, authors, students of English, and textual scholars, the Historical Thesaurus is a rich and unparalleled resource for investigating social and cultural history, showing the development of concepts through the words that refer to them."--Website.

Notes:

Website viewed 19th January 2015.

Related Work:

Kay, Christian. Historical thesaurus of the Oxford English dictionary.

Other Format:

Print version: Kay, Christian. Historical thesaurus of the Oxford English dictionary.

OCLC:

902921517

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access