Peter J. Wexler

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Peter J. Wexler (* 1923 ; † 2002 ) was a British Romance studies and lexicologist .

life and work

Peter Jacob Wexler received his doctorate in 1951 from the Sorbonne on La formation du vocabulaire des chemins de fer en France, 1778-1842 (Geneva / Lille 1955). He taught first at the University of Manchester , then at the University of Essex . Wexler provided numerous materials for Bernard Quemadas Matériaux pour l'histoire du vocabulaire français. Datations et documents lexicographiques , Besançon 1959-1965. Above all, however, he made 50,000 citations available to the Oxford English Dictionary , including 500 first copies. He published in the Cahiers de lexicologie .

literature

  • A Festschrift for Peter Wexler. Studies presented to Peter Wexler by his friends and colleagues, on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday , ed. by Jacques Durand, University of Essex 1983.

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personal data
SURNAME Wexler, Peter J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wexler, Peter; Wexler, Peter Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Romance philologist and lexicologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1923
DATE OF DEATH 2002