Christian Kay

Professor Christian Kay in 2013 Christian Janet Kay (4 April 1940 – 28 May 2016) 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'' (HTOED), a project to which she dedicated 40 years (1969 to 2009).

Kay also founded the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech and published work on historical semantics and lexicography, and contributed metaphor and semantic annotation based projects on the Historical Thesaurus of English dataset. Provided by Wikipedia
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    English historical semantics / Christian Kay and Kathryn Allan.

    English historical semantics / Christian Kay and Kathryn Allan. by Kay, Christian, Allan, Kathryn

    Published 2015
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    Progress in Colour Studies : Volume I. Language and culture.

    Progress in Colour Studies : Volume I. Language and culture. by Biggam, Carole P.

    Published 2006
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    Lexicology, semantics, and lexicography : selected papers from the fourth G.L. Brook Symposium, Manchester, August 1998 / edited by Julie Coleman, Christian J. Kay.

    Lexicology, semantics, and lexicography : selected papers from the fourth G.L. Brook Symposium, Manchester, August 1998 / edited by Julie Coleman, Christian J. Kay.

    Published 2000
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    Categorization in the history of English / edited by Christian J. Kay, Jeremy J. Smith.

    Categorization in the history of English / edited by Christian J. Kay, Jeremy J. Smith.

    Published 2004
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    New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics. Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21-26 August 2002. Volume II : Lexis and Transmission.

    New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics. Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21-26 August 2002. Volume II : Lexis and Transmission.

    Published 2004
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    New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics. Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21-26 August 2002. Volume I : Syntax and Morphology.

    New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics. Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21-26 August 2002. Volume I : Syntax and Morphology.

    Published 2004
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    The power of words : essays in lexicography, lexicology and semantics : in honour of Christian J. Kay / edited by Graham D. Caie, Carole Hough and Irené Wotherspoon.

    The power of words : essays in lexicography, lexicology and semantics : in honour of Christian J. Kay / edited by Graham D. Caie, Carole Hough and Irené Wotherspoon.

    Published 2006
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    Colour studies : a broad spectrum / edited by Wendy Anderson, University of Glasgow ; Carole P. Biggam, University of Glasgow ; Carole A. Hough, University of Glasgow ; Christian J. Kay, University of Glasgow.

    Colour studies : a broad spectrum / edited by Wendy Anderson, University of Glasgow ; Carole P. Biggam, University of Glasgow ; Carole A. Hough, University of Glasgow ; Christian J...

    Published 2014
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    Me and Orson Welles.

    Me and Orson Welles.

    Published 2009
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