Christian Kay
Christian Kay | |
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Professor Christian Kay in 2013 | |
| Born | 4 April 1940 |
| Died | 28 May 2016 (aged 76) |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | MA, AM, DipGenLing, DLitt |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh, Mount Holyoke College, University of Glasgow |
| Occupation(s) | Academic and lexicographer |
| Years active | 1964-2016 |
| Employer | University of Glasgow |
| Notable work | Historical 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. 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.