R. W. Burchfield (1923–2004)
Auteur de The New Fowler's Modern English Usage
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: R.W. Burchfield in June 1972 [credit: OED Archives]
Séries
Œuvres de R. W. Burchfield
The Compact Edition of The Oxford English Dictionary: Volume III: A Supplement to The Oxford English Dictionary,… (1987) 89 exemplaires
A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary: Volume 1: A-G (1972) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 17 exemplaires
The Cambridge History of the English Language, Vol. 5: English in Britain and Overseas (1994) — Directeur de publication — 17 exemplaires
An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language 1 exemplaire
The Land and People of New Zealand 1 exemplaire
The Oxford English dictionary 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them (2015) — Contributeur — 82 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Burchfield, R. W.
- Nom légal
- Burchfield, Robert William
- Autres noms
- Burchfield, Robert
Burchfield, Bob - Date de naissance
- 1923-01-27
- Date de décès
- 2004-07-05
- Lieu de sépulture
- Sutton Courtenay Churchyard, Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- New Zealand
- Lieu de naissance
- Wanganui, New Zealand
- Lieu du décès
- Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Cause du décès
- bronchopneumonia
- Lieux de résidence
- Wellington, New Zealand
Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, England, UK - Études
- Magdalen College, Oxford University (BA|1951|MA|1955)
Victoria University of Wellington (BA|MA|1948)
Wanganui Technical College - Professions
- lexicographer
writer
university lecturer
editor - Relations
- Lewis, C. S. (tutor)
- Organisations
- Royal New Zealand Artillery (WWII)
Oxford University
Oxford University Press
English Association
British Text Society - Prix et distinctions
- 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) - Courte biographie
- 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.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 23
- Aussi par
- 6
- Membres
- 1,890
- Popularité
- #13,604
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 10
- ISBN
- 28
- Langues
- 1
- Favoris
- 1