31.1376, All: Tom McArthur - obituary

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Subject: 31.1376, All:  Tom McArthur - obituary

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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 19:56:13
From: Lise Fontaine [FontaineL at cf.ac.uk]
Subject: Tom McArthur - obituary

 
Tom McArthur passed away peacefully in his sleep on March 30, 2020, following
a long battle with dementia. In a career that spanned over five decades, his
contribution to the field of English as a world language was considerable.
Among his most notable accomplishments were a quarter century at the helm of
Cambridge University Press' journal English Today (1983-2008) and what many
believe was his crowning achievement, the publication of The Oxford Companion
to the English Language (Oxford University Press, 1992). He is survived by his
wife Jacqueline Lam-McArthur, three children, Meher, Roshan and Alan, and two
grandchildren, Kaia and Theo.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics



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