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Lexical Searches for the Arts and Humanities Jeremy Smith, Christian Kay, Simon Horobin Department of English Language University of Glasgow
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Project Aims database of search words dates of use semantic categories style
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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
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Musical Instruments piano 1803 pianoforte 1767 forte-piano 1769 joanna 1846
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Interdisciplinarity Art Clothing Drink Food Health Kinship Law Music Navigation Plants Weather
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Thesaurus of Old English
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50,000 meanings MySQL database British Academy funding http://libra.englang.arts.gla.ac.uk/oethesaurus/ http://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/reports.php
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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
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Significance interdisciplinarity research enhancement fully electronic Historical Thesaurus
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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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