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1 Lexical Searches for the Arts and Humanities Jeremy Smith, Christian Kay, Simon Horobin Department of English Language University of Glasgow

2 Project Aims database of search words dates of use semantic categories style

3 Historical Thesaurus of English Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition Old English dictionaries 650,000 meanings detailed semantic taxonomy http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ sesll/englang/thesaur/homepage.htm

4 Musical Instruments piano 1803 pianoforte 1767 forte-piano 1769 joanna 1846

5 Interdisciplinarity Art Clothing Drink Food Health Kinship Law Music Navigation Plants Weather

6 Thesaurus of Old English

7 50,000 meanings MySQL database British Academy funding http://libra.englang.arts.gla.ac.uk/oethesaurus/ http://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/reports.php

8 Complex Searches find all words meaning ‘trumpet’ find all words meaning ‘trumpet’ recorded between 1400 and 1850 find all words meaning ‘trumpet’ recorded after 1700 in the USA

9 Significance interdisciplinarity research enhancement fully electronic Historical Thesaurus

10 Issues  Spelling piano* > pianoe, pianos, pianoes OED ‘Trumpet’, also 4-6 trompette,- et, trumpette, 5 trompett, troumpette, 6-7 trumpett; Sc. 5 trompat, troumpat(e, trumpate, 5-6 trumpat, 6 –ait


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