Patrick Wyndham Hanks (24 March 1940 – 1 February 2024) was an English lexicographer , corpus linguist , and onomastician . He edited dictionaries of general language, as well as dictionaries of personal names .
13-554: For other uses, see Ranald (disambiguation) . Ranald Gender Masculine Language(s) English , Scots Origin Language(s) Scottish Gaelic Word/name Raghnall Ranald is an English and Scots masculine given name . It is an Anglicised form of the Scottish Gaelic name Raghnall . A short form of Ranald
26-722: Is Ran . Notable persons [ edit ] Ranald Graham (1941–2010), Scottish writer, television director and producer Ranald Leask , British journalist Ranald MacDonald (bishop) (1756–1832), Scottish Roman Catholic bishop Ranald George Macdonald (1788–1873), Scottish clan chief and Member of British Parliament Ranald MacDonald (1824–1894), English language teacher in Japan Ranald Roderick Macdonald (1945–2007), British mathematician and psychologist Ranald MacDougall (1915–1973), American screenwriter Ranald S. Mackenzie (1840–1889), United States Army officer and general during
39-505: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Ranald (disambiguation) Ranald is a name. Ranald may also refer to: Patrick Hanks Hanks was educated at Ardingly College , University College, Oxford (BA, MA), and Masaryk University (PhD). After graduation from Oxford, he started his lexicographic career as editor of the Hamlyn Encyclopedic World Dictionary (1971). In 1970, he
52-601: Is editor in chief of the Dictionary of American Family Names (3 volumes, OUP 2003), and is co-author with Flavia Hodges and Kate Hardcastle of the Oxford Dictionary of First Names (1990, 2006). He was section editor for lexicography in the second edition of the Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (ELL2; 2005), edited by Keith Brown, for which he commissioned survey articles on lexicography in all
65-2009: The Civil War Ranald Sutherland, Lord Sutherland (born 1932), Scottish judge Fictional characters [ edit ] Ranald Bannerman from Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood , a novel by George MacDonald See also [ edit ] v t e Names derived from or cognates of Rǫgnvaldr Given names Rainaldo Rainald Ragnar Ragnall Ranald Reinhold Reginald Renald Renaldo Renaud Reynald Reynaldo Reynold Rognvald Ronald Ronaldo Reinaldo Raynaldo Ragnvald Regenweald Rögnvald Rægnald [REDACTED] Surnames McReynolds Reynolds Ronaldson Diminutives Reggie Ronaldinho All pages with titles containing Ranald Citations [ edit ] ^ Hanks; Hodges 2006 pp. 407–408; Hanks; Hodges 2003 ; Hanks; Hodges 1997 pp. 204, 205. ^ Thomson 2006 pp. 1257–1259. ^ Hanks; Hodges 2003 ; Hanks; Hodges 1997 p. 205. References [ edit ] Hanks, P ; Hardcastle, K; Hodges, F (2006). A Dictionary of First Names . Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press . ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1 . Hanks, P ; Hodges, F (1997). A Concise Dictionary of First Names (Revised ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press . ISBN 0198606052 . Hanks, P ; Hodges, F (2003). A Dictionary of First Names (EPUB). Oxford: Oxford University Press . ISBN 0198606052 . Thomson, R (2006). "Manx surnames". In Koch, JT (ed.). Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia . Vol. 4. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO . pp. 1257–1259. ISBN 1-85109-445-8 . [REDACTED] Name list This page or section lists people that share
78-859: The Collocations Project and Electronic Dictionary of the German Language (DWDS) at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW) headed by Christiane Fellbaum . He has also served as a consultant on lexicographical methodology to the Institute of the Czech Language in Prague, to Patakis Publishers in Athens, and others. Patrick Hanks was the author of many papers on lexical analysis , lexicography , onomastics , and similes and metaphor . He
91-524: The development of one of the earliest search engines ( AltaVista ). On the basis of the COBUILD and HECTOR research in corpus analysis, Hanks began to develop his theory of Norms and Exploitations. From 2001 to 2005, he was adjunct professor of computational lexicography at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA, where he worked closely with James Pustejovsky . In 2003, he was appointed consultant and visiting scientist to
104-618: The empirical procedure of Corpus Pattern Analysis , which links word meaning to patterns of word use and systematically distinguishes patterns of normal usage from creative uses. After a year in Prague at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University , Prague, he returned to England as lead researcher on the FaNUK project in the Bristol Centre for Linguistics in the University of
117-461: The same given name . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ranald&oldid=1159992450 " Categories : Given names English-language masculine given names Masculine given names Scottish masculine given names Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
130-476: The summer of 1988 and 1989, he was a visiting scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, where he co-authored with Ken Church influential papers on corpus-based statistical methods in lexical analysis. Hanks died on 1 February 2024, at the age of 83. From 1990 to 2000, Hanks served as chief editor of current English dictionaries at Oxford University Press (OUP). In 1991 to 1992, he
143-474: The world's major languages and on major issues in lexicography and lexicology. He edited a multivolume collection covering all aspects of lexicology for Routledge , and, with Rachel Giora, a companion collection covering all aspects of metaphor and figurative language. From 2005 to 2009 he was a senior research associate at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University , Brno , Czech Republic , where he developed
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#1732858569087156-464: Was appointed editor of Collins English Dictionary (1979). From 1980 to 1983, he was director of the Names Research Unit of the University of Essex , England, where he began a PhD under the supervision of Yorick Wilks . In 1983, he was appointed managing editor of COBUILD , and in 1987 he took on the additional role of chief editor of English dictionaries for Collins (now HarperCollins ). In
169-653: Was joint principal investigator (with Mary-Claire van Leunen) of the HECTOR project at the Systems Research Center of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in Palo Alto, CA. The HECTOR project was a collaboration between OUP and DEC, and although its results were never published, they served as a basis for the New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998), while the lexicographers working on it were also guinea-pig users in
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