R. W. Burchfield (1923–2004)
Forfatter af The New Fowler's Modern English Usage
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Image credit: R.W. Burchfield in June 1972 [credit: OED Archives]
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Værker af R. W. Burchfield
The Compact Edition of The Oxford English Dictionary: Volume III: A Supplement to The Oxford English Dictionary,… (1987) 89 eksemplarer
A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary: Volume 1: A-G (1972) — Redaktør, nogle udgaver — 17 eksemplarer
The Cambridge History of the English Language, Vol. 5: English in Britain and Overseas (1994) — Redaktør — 17 eksemplarer
The Land and People of New Zealand 1 eksemplar
The Oxford English dictionary 1 eksemplar
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The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them (2015) — Bidragyder — 82 eksemplarer
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- Kanonisk navn
- Burchfield, R. W.
- Juridisk navn
- Burchfield, Robert William
- Andre navne
- Burchfield, Robert
Burchfield, Bob - Fødselsdato
- 1923-01-27
- Dødsdag
- 2004-07-05
- Begravelsessted
- Sutton Courtenay Churchyard, Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- New Zealand
- Fødested
- Wanganui, New Zealand
- Dødssted
- Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Dødsårsag
- bronchopneumonia
- Bopæl
- Wellington, New Zealand
Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, England, UK - Uddannelse
- Magdalen College, Oxford University (BA|1951|MA|1955)
Victoria University of Wellington (BA|MA|1948)
Wanganui Technical College - Erhverv
- lexicographer
writer
university lecturer
editor - Relationer
- Lewis, C. S. (tutor)
- Organisationer
- Royal New Zealand Artillery (WWII)
Oxford University
Oxford University Press
English Association
British Text Society - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- 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) - Kort biografi
- 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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