Edmund Weiner
Edmund Weiner (born August 27, 1950 in Oxford ) is a British Anglicist and lexicographer. He is one of the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).
Weiner taught Old and Middle English and the history of the English language at Christ Church College, Oxford, and did research on Middle English literature. He joined the OED in 1977 and initially worked on the second supplement. From 1983 he worked on the digitization of the OED and from 1985 he was co-editor of the 2nd edition. In 1993 he became Deputy Chief Editor, overseeing the final edition and revising the grammar information. He was instrumental in the 1992 CD-ROM edition and is the senior philologist at the OED.
He studies etymology, phonetics and grammar in a historical context and published on early English in non-literary texts.
Weiner is a fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford. He is influenced by the Oxford philologists CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien and published about Tolkien and his involvement in the OED.
Fonts
- with Sylvia Chalker: The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar, Oxford UP 1998, 2nd edition with Bas Aarts 2014
- with Sidney Greenbaum: Oxford Reference Grammar, Oxford UP 2000
- with Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall: The Ring of Words. Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford UP 2006
- Contribution with Marshall on Tolkien in: Michael Adams (Ed.) From Elvish to Klingon, Oxford UP 2011
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weiner, Edmund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English Anglist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 27, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oxford |