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Christian Kay

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Christian Janet Kay 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.

Books

Perspectives on the Older Scottish Tongue
Perspectives on the Older Scottish Tongue
Christian Kay
Perspectives on the Older Scottish Tongue
Perspectives on the Older Scottish Tongue
Christian Kay, Margaret Mackay, Margaret A. Mackay
English Historical Semantics
English Historical Semantics
Christian Kay
New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Lexis and transmission
New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Lexis and transmission
Simon Horobin, Carole Hough, Christian Kay, Jeremy J. Smith, Inrene Wotherspoon
Lexis and Texts in Early English
Lexis and Texts in Early English
Christian Kay, Jane Annette Roberts, Louise Sylvester, Louise M. Sylvester
Perspectives on the Older Scottish Tongue
Perspectives on the Older Scottish Tongue
Christian Kay, Margaret Mackay, Margaret A. Mackay
A Thesaurus of Old English
A Thesaurus of Old English
Jane Roberts, Christian Kay, Lynne Grundy
Categorization in the History of English
Categorization in the History of English
Christian Kay, Jeremy J. Smith
A Thesaurus of Old English: Introduction and thesaurus
A Thesaurus of Old English: Introduction and thesaurus
Jane Roberts, Christian Kay, Lynne Grundy
Progress in Colour Studies: Psychological aspects
Progress in Colour Studies: Psychological aspects
Carole Patricia Biggam, Christian Kay, Nicola Pitchford

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