R. W. Burchfield (1923–2004)
Autore di The New Fowler's Modern English Usage
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: R.W. Burchfield in June 1972 [credit: OED Archives]
Serie
Opere di R. W. Burchfield
The Compact Edition of The Oxford English Dictionary: Volume III: A Supplement to The Oxford English Dictionary,… (1987) 89 copie
A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary: Volume 1: A-G (1972) — A cura di, alcune edizioni — 17 copie
The Cambridge History of the English Language, Vol. 5: English in Britain and Overseas (1994) — A cura di — 17 copie
The Oxford English dictionary 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them (2015) — Collaboratore — 82 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Burchfield, R. W.
- Nome legale
- Burchfield, Robert William
- Altri nomi
- Burchfield, Robert
Burchfield, Bob - Data di nascita
- 1923-01-27
- Data di morte
- 2004-07-05
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Sutton Courtenay Churchyard, Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- New Zealand
- Luogo di nascita
- Wanganui, New Zealand
- Luogo di morte
- Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Causa della morte
- bronchopneumonia
- Luogo di residenza
- Wellington, New Zealand
Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, England, UK - Istruzione
- Magdalen College, Oxford University (BA|1951|MA|1955)
Victoria University of Wellington (BA|MA|1948)
Wanganui Technical College - Attività lavorative
- lexicographer
writer
university lecturer
editor - Relazioni
- Lewis, C. S. (tutor)
- Organizzazioni
- Royal New Zealand Artillery (WWII)
Oxford University
Oxford University Press
English Association
British Text Society - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Companion, New Zealand Order of Merit
Commander, Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (1975)
Rhodes Scholar
International Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1977) - Breve biografia
- Scholar, writer and lexicographer. He studied at Wanganui Technical College and Victoria University in Wellington. After war service in the Royal New Zealand Artillery, he graduated MA from Wellington in 1948 and won a Rhodes Scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford University in England, where his preparation of an edition of the Ormulum was supervised by J.R.R. Tolkien. C. T. Onions. He then became Chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionaries from 1971 to 1984, after Dan Davis, the Magdalen librarian, recommended him. After retiring from the dictionary, he turned his attention to grammar, heavily rewriting Henry Watson Fowler's 1926 classic.
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Folio Society (1)
Potrebbero anche piacerti
Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 23
- Opere correlate
- 6
- Utenti
- 1,889
- Popolarità
- #13,612
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 10
- ISBN
- 28
- Lingue
- 1
- Preferito da
- 1