Oxford Companion to the English Language
Second Edition
Edited by Tom McArthur, Jacqueline Lam-McArthur, and Lise Fontaine
Author Information
Tom McArthur is an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists, London, 2002-, and the founder editor of the quarterly journal English Today (CUP), serving from 1984-2007. He was also Director of the Extra-Mural Centre for English Language Studies at the University of Edinburgh (1979-84), and Associate Professor of English at the Universite du Quebec, Canada, (1979-84). Since 1985 he has been an editor, writer, lecturer, and ELT consultant. He has broadcast with the BBC (UK), CBC (Canada), and ABC (Australia), and has lectured and presented papers in over twenty countries.
Jacqueline Lam-McArthur is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists; Chief Moderator for the Diploma in Translation (DipTrans) and the International Diploma in Bilingual Communications (IDBC) at the Institute of Linguists, London; and examiner, marker, and vetter for Chinese (Putonghua/Mandarin and Cantonese) for the Diplomatic Service Language Allowance Examination at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London.
Lise Fontaine is a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University in the Centre for Language and Communication Research (CLCR) where she lectures mainly on functional grammar, word meaning, corpus linguistics, and psycholinguistics. Her research interests include functional grammar theory and, more specifically, the study of referring expressions as realised in the noun phrase. In addition to publishing over 20 articles and book chapters, she is the author of Analyzing English Grammar: A systemic-functional introduction (CUP, 2012). She has also co-edited Systemic Functional Linguistics: Exploring Choice (CUP, 2013); Choice in Language (Equinox, 2013); Perspectives from Systemic Functional Linguistics: An Appliable Theory of Language (Routledge, printing), and The Cambridge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics (CUP, printing).
Contributors:
Contributors to the second edition
Michelle Aldridge
Brook Bolander
Wendy L. Bowcher
Chang Chenguang
Mercedes Durham
Anne McCabe
Anne Mangen
Gerard O'Grady
Luke Rudge
Muhammad Shaban
Tereza Spilioti
Erich Steiner
Caroline Tagg
Jonathan Webster
Shigeru Yamada
Contributors to the first edition
Jean Aitchison
A. J. Aitken
John Algeo
Robert E. Allen
Jon Amastae
Tony Augarde
Richard W. Bailey
William W. Barker
Dennis E. Baron
Laurie Bauer
John Baugh
Paul Beale
David Blair
Eyamba G. Bokamba
Whitney F. Bolton
Jean Branford
William Branford
Lawrence B. Breitborde
Christopher J. Brumfit
Robert W. Burchfield
Garland Cannon
Lawrence D. Carrington
Frederic G. Cassidy
Sylvia Chalker
Raymond Chapman
Paul Christophersen
Isagani R. Cruz
David Crystal
W. D. Wimal Dissanayake
Connie C. Eble
John Edwards
Stanley Ellis
Margery Fee
Jean-Marc Gachelin
Charles Gilman
Andrew Gonzales
Sidney Greenbaum
Anjum R. Haque
Reinhard Hartmann
Mohamed H. Heliel
Geoffrey Hughes
Robert F. Ilson
Braj B. Kachru
Yamuna Kachru
Gillian S. Kay
Francis E. Knowles
Gerald Knowles
Margot Lawrence
Sangsup Lee
Michael Lesk
Peter H. Lowenberg
William D. Lutz
Iseabail C. McLeod
Rejend Mesthrie
Salikoko S. Mufwene
Walter Nash
Cecil L. Nelson
Noel E. Osselton
Frank R. Palmer
Rajeshwari Pandharipande
John Platt
Rene James Quinault
William S. Ramson
Suzanne Romaine
Adrian Room
William Shephard
Larry E. Smith
S. N. Sridhar
James Stanlaw
Sol Steinmetz
Peter Strevens
Mary Tay
Loreto Todd
Barry Tomalin
Peter Trudgill
Christopher Upward
Laurence Urdang
Katie Wales
Heidi Weber
Edmund Weiner
Lise S. Winer
Margaret E. Winters
Consultants
Richard Allwright
Jacqueline Anderson
Lourdes B. Bautista
Ben Benedikz
Roger Bowers
J. K. Chambers
Sandra Clarke
Rachel Davis
Agnes Drever
Robert A. Dunbar
Anna Dunlop
Barbara Goldsmid
David Gough
Barbara Harris
Tom Hecht
Joan Hughes
Sally Hunt
Fadilah Jasmani
S. Johansson
Damian J. Kelly
Virginia LaCastro
Leonhard Lipka
Louise McIvor
Kevin McNamee
David I. Masson
Dhun Mehta
Godfrey Meintjes
Tatsuo Miyajima
Diarmaid O hAirt
Maria-Grazia Pederzani
Mary Penrith
Frederick H. G. Percy
Peter Pitman
Arnold D. N. Pitt
Graham Pointon
Velma Pollard
Camilla Raab
F. Gordon Rohlehr
A. O. Sanved
Sybil Sarel
Donald Scragg
John Singler
