ENGL 3025 History of the English Language: Early Modern English

Crystal references this in Chapter 12: "An important step will be the construction of a historical and stylistically aware thesaurus to give us a first sense of the 'competition' which exists between words during a time of rapid lexical growth in a language; and such projects are still in their early stages." Fortunately for us, it's been quite a few years since our textbook was written, and some of the work has been done in the time since!