none 10.1075/cilt.261.04fis John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 67878200 1419530 1419350 202507021948000028 10.1075 2025-07-02T17:47:22Z 2014-03-24T08:10:30Z 5 0304-0763 10.1075/cilt https://benjamins.com/ catalog/cilt Christian Kay University of Glasgow https://ror.org/00vtgdb53 Jeremy J. Smith University of Glasgow https://ror.org/00vtgdb53 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4788-3966 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 semantic areas are offered by Kleparski, Mikołajczuk, O’Hare and Peters. Papers by Lass, Laing and Williamson, and Smith are concerned with the nature of linguistic evidence in the context of the historical record, offering new insights into text typology, scribal language and vowel classification. Much of the data discussed is new and original. 261 12 23 2004 4 8 2011 9789027247759 9781588116192 9789027285409 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/cilt.261 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027285409 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/cilt.261/html https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027285409.pdf Andreas Fischer 12 23 2004 4 8 2011 41 58 10.1075/cilt.261.04fis https://benjamins.com/catalog/cilt.261.04fis https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/cilt.261.04fis/html