biography
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| (1941– )
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| biography:
| Linguist and encyclopedist, born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, UK. Brought up in Holyhead, N Wales, and Liverpool, he studied English at University College London, then taught linguistics at Bangor (1963–5) and Reading (1965–84) universities. He has written widely on language-related topics, notably The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (1987) and The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English language (1995), and is also the editor of The Cambridge Encyclopedia (1989) and its derivative works. |
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