Christian Kay

Christian Kay
Professor Christian Kay in 2013
Born(1940-04-04)4 April 1940
Died28 May 2016(2016-05-28) (aged 76)
Glasgow
NationalityBritish
EducationMA, AM, DipGenLing, DLitt
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh, Mount Holyoke College, University of Glasgow
Occupation(s)Academic and lexicographer
Years active1964-2016
EmployerUniversity of Glasgow
Notable workHistorical Thesaurus of English, Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech, Scottish Language Dictionaries

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.[1][2] 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).[2][3][4][5][6]

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.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Christian Kay". Edinburgh University Press Books. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Obituary - Christian Kay, Glasgow professor who created the world's largest thesaurus". Herald Scotland. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
  3. ^ "Introducing The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English DictionaryHistorical Thesaurus Week | OUPblog". OUPblog. 26 October 2009. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
  4. ^ "University of Glasgow - MyGlasgow - Campus e-News - Archives - 2016 - June - Christian Kay - a tribute". www.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
  5. ^ "University of Glasgow - Schools - School of Critical Studies - Our staff - Prof Christian J Kay". www.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
  6. ^ "Thesaurus 45 years in the making finally on sale". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2016.