Categorization in the history of English / edited by Christian J. Kay, Jeremy J. Smith.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The rhinoceros's problem : the need to categorize / Jean Aitchison -- Prototypes and foci in the encoding of colour / C.P. Biggam -- The notional structure of thesauruses / Andreas Fischer -- When ignorance is wisdom : some day-to-day problems of classification / Christian J. Kay -- CDs, petticoats, skirts, ankas, tamaras and sheilas : the metonymical rise of lexical categories related to the conceptual category FEMALE HUMAN BEING / Grzegorz A. Kleparski -- The archaeology of medieval texts / Margaret Laing and Keith Williamson -- Texts as linguistic objects / Roger Lass -- ANGER in Polish and English : a semantic comparison with some historical context / Agnieszka Mikołajczuk -- Folk classification in the HTE "plants" category / Cerwyss O'Hare -- The vocabulary of PAIN / Hans Peters -- Classifying the vowels of Middle English / Jeremy J. Smith -- Categories and taxonomies : a cognitive approach to lexicographical resources / Louise Sylvester.

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The papers in this volume are linked by a common concern, which is at the centre of current linguistic enquiry: how do we classify and categorize linguistic data, and how does this process add to our understanding of linguistic change? The scene is set by Aitchison's paper on the development of linguistic categorization over the past few decades, followed by Biggam's critical overview of theoretical developments in colour semantics. Lexical classification in action is discussed in papers by Fischer, Kay and Sylvester on the structures of thesauruses, while detailed treatments of particular sem.

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