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 .
13-512: Emrys is a Welsh name (the Welsh form of Ambrose ) and may refer to: Emrys Killebrew from Marvel Comics who created Deadpool . Merlin (Emrys) from the 2008 BBC fantasy drama television series Merlin . Ambrose (given name) Ambrose is a given name. It is derived from Greek ambrosios , meaning (belonging to) immortal(s) , god-like ; cf. ambrosia , food of gods . Notable people with
26-683: A basis for the New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998), while the lexicographers working on it were also guinea-pig users in 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
39-513: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles 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 was appointed editor of Collins English Dictionary (1979). From 1980 to 1983, he
52-2047: The Rhode Island Supreme Court Ambrose Small (1863–1919), Canadian theatre magnate Ambrose Tarrant (1866–1938), Australian cricketer Ambrose Parry , pseudonym of Scottish authors Chris Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman Amby [ edit ] Amby Burfoot (born 1946), American long-distance runner and journalist Amby Fogarty (1933–2016), Irish footballer Amby McConnell (1883–1942), American baseball player Amby Paliwoda (1909–1999), American animator See also [ edit ] Ambroise (name) Ambrosius Ambrož (disambiguation) Amvrosy References [ edit ] Notes [ edit ] ^ HanksHardcastleHodges 2006 , p. 4. ^ Petrovskij 2000 , p. 48. ^ Superanskaja & Institut Jazykoznanija 2005 , p. 32. Sources [ edit ] Hanks, Patrick ; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). A Dictionary of First Names . Oxford paperback reference. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press . ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1 . OCLC 67869278 . Retrieved 21 November 2024 . Petrovskij, Nikandr A. (2000). Slovarʹ russkich ličnych imen: bolee 3000 imen Словарь русских личных имен: более 3000 имен [ Dictionary of Russian First Names: More Than 3000 Names ] (in Russian). Moskva: Русские словари [Russkie Slovari]. ISBN 5-17-002940-3 . Superanskaja, Aleksandra Vasilʹevna; Institut Jazykoznanija (2005). Sovremennyj slovarʹ ličnych imën: spavnenie, proizchoždenie, napisanie Современный словарь личных имён: Сравнение. Происхождение. Написание [ Modern Dictionary of First Names: Comparison. Origins. Spelling ] (in Russian). Moskva: Айрис-пресс [Ajris Press]. ISBN 5-17-002940-3 . [REDACTED] Name list This page or section lists people that share
65-636: 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 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
78-737: The author of many papers on lexical analysis , lexicography , onomastics , and similes and metaphor . He 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
91-693: 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
104-647: The first thermionic valve or vacuum tube, designed the radio transmitter with which the first transatlantic radio transmission was made, established the right-hand rule used in physics. Ambrose K. Hutchison (1856–1932), Hawaiian resident leader of the leper settlement of Kalaupapa Ambrose Kenny-Smith , Australian singer and harmonicist of The Murlocs and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Ambrose O'Brien (1885–1968), Canadian industrialist Ambrose Page (1723–1791), Rhode Island admiralty judge who declined appointment as an associate justice of
117-603: The name include: St Ambrose of Milan St. Ambrose Traversari , also referred to as Ambrose of Camaldoli, (1386–1439), Italian monk and theologian Ambrose Akinmusire (born 1982), Nigerian-American jazz trumpeter Ambrose Bierce (1842–1913), American author Ambrose Burnside (1824–1881), American general and namesake of sideburns Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini (1968–2020), Swazi politician and businessman Ambrose Gaines IV (born 1959), American swimmer better known as Rowdy Gaines John Ambrose Fleming (1849–1945), English electrical engineer and physicist. Invented
130-512: 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=Ambrose_(given_name)&oldid=1258745198 " Categories : Given names English masculine given names Masculine given names Hidden categories: CS1 uses Russian-language script (ru) CS1 Russian-language sources (ru) Articles with short description Short description
143-479: 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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#1732793799815156-791: Was appointed consultant and visiting scientist to 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
169-718: 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 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
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