R. W. Burchfield (1923–2004)
Autor de The New Fowler's Modern English Usage
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: R.W. Burchfield in June 1972 [credit: OED Archives]
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Obras de R. W. Burchfield
The Compact Edition of The Oxford English Dictionary: Volume III: A Supplement to The Oxford English Dictionary,… (1987) 89 copias
A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary: Volume 1: A-G (1972) — Editor, algunas ediciones — 17 copias
The Cambridge History of the English Language, Vol. 5: English in Britain and Overseas (1994) — Editor — 17 copias
The Oxford English dictionary 1 copia
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- Burchfield, R. W.
- Nombre legal
- Burchfield, Robert William
- Otros nombres
- Burchfield, Robert
Burchfield, Bob - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1923-01-27
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2004-07-05
- Lugar de sepultura
- Sutton Courtenay Churchyard, Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- New Zealand
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Wanganui, New Zealand
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Causa de fallecimiento
- bronchopneumonia
- Lugares de residencia
- Wellington, New Zealand
Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, England, UK - Educación
- Magdalen College, Oxford University (BA|1951|MA|1955)
Victoria University of Wellington (BA|MA|1948)
Wanganui Technical College - Ocupaciones
- lexicographer
writer
university lecturer
editor - Relaciones
- Lewis, C. S. (tutor)
- Organizaciones
- Royal New Zealand Artillery (WWII)
Oxford University
Oxford University Press
English Association
British Text Society - Premios y honores
- 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) - Biografía breve
- 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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