William Dennis Elcock
William Dennis Elcock ( 1910 - October 7, 1960 in London ) was a British Romanist .
life and work
Elcock graduated from Manchester in 1932 and Edinburgh in 1934. He went to Toulouse and received his doctorate there with the thesis De quelques affinités phonétiques entre l'aragonais et le béarnais (Paris 1938, Spanish: Zaragoza 2005). He was an officer in the world war. From 1945 he taught in Oxford. From 1947 until his sudden death he was Professor of Romance Philology at the University of London .
Other works
- The Romance Languages , London 1960, edited by John N. Green, London 1975
literature
- Joseph Cremona in: French Studies 15, 1961, p. 95
- TBW Reid in: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 38, 1961, p. 159
- Rebecca Posner: Romance Linguistics in Oxford 1840-1940, in: Lingua et Traditio. History of linguistics and recent philologies. Festschrift for Hans Helmut Christmann for his 65th birthday , ed. by Richard Baum, Klaus Böckle, Franz Josef Hausmann and Franz Lebsanft, Tübingen 1994, pp. 375–383
Web links
- Literature by and about William Dennis Elcock in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- http://fs.oxfordjournals.org/content/XV/1/95.extract
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Elcock, William Dennis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Elcock, WD; Elcock, William D. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Romanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1910 |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 7, 1960 |
| Place of death | London |