Irené A. W. Wotherspoon, MA, MLitt
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
- Responsibility for classification, editing and the development of the database of the Historical Thesuarus of English
Room 3, 12 University Gardens
telephone: 0141 330 6340
email: I.Wotherspoon@englang.arts.gla.ac.uk
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Biography
M.A. Glasgow, M.Litt. Glasgow, Thesis 'A Notional and Historical Classification of Two Parts of English Lexis' 1969, a detailed study within a framework of modern linguistics of a concrete and an abstract semantic field, 'The Body and its Parts' and 'Painful Emotions'.
Irene Wotherspoon has been involved with the Historical Thesaurus of English since 1969, and has taught Old English and Level 1 tutorials in the Department of English Language.Since 1988, in addition to editing the HTE material, she has been responsible for training and supervision of HTE research assistants and for the development of the electronic database.
Her present research interests are semantic change, various cognitive aspects of language, and folk etymology.