28.5363, All: In Memoriam: Randolph Quirk

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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 14:19:19
From: Bas Aarts [b.aarts at ucl.ac.uk]
Subject: In Memoriam: Randolph Quirk

 
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Randolph Quirk, Founder
of the Survey of English Usage.

Randolph was born on 12 July 1920 on the Isle of Man. He studied at University
College London, where he later became Quain Professor in English Language and
Literature. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of London from 1981 to
1985.

Quirk became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1976 and
was knighted in 1985. He was President of the British Academy from 1985 to
1989 and became a life peer as Baron Quirk, of Bloomsbury on 12 July 1994.

Quirk is well-known for founding the Survey of English Usage at UCL in 1959,
but most of all for the monumental Comprehensive Grammar of the English
Language (1985), which he co-authored with Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech
and Jan Svartvik. This book, which became known as Quirk et al. is one of the
great standard reference grammars of English.

Quirk’s autobiography (in the form of an interview with Keith Brown) appears
here:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/about/quirk.htm

Randolph’s memory will be cherished by his colleagues at the Survey of a
English Usage.

We send our deep condolences to Lady Gabriele Stein.

Bas Aarts
Director, Survey of English Usage
 


Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics



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