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Gerald Stone (literary scholar)

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Gerald Charles Stone FBA (22 August 1932 – 11 September 2021) was a British linguist. From 1972 to 1999, he was a fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, and a lecturer in non-Russian Slavonic languages at the University of Oxford. He had previously taught at the universities of Nottingham and Cambridge. He instituted the teaching of Polish to undergraduates at Oxford, was a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary and was general editor of the Oxford Slavonic Papers. He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1992.[1][2][3]

Publications

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  • The Smallest Slavonic Nation: The Sorbs of Lusatia (London: The Athlone Press, 1972)
  • (with Bernard Comrie) The Russian language since the Revolution (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978)
  • An Introduction to Polish (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980; 2nd edn, 1992)
  • (with Bernard Comrie and Maria Polinsky) The Russian Language in the Twentieth Century (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995)
  • Hornjoserbsko-jendźelski Słownik: Upper Sorbian–English Dictionary (Bautzen: Domowina Verlag, 2002)
  • The Göda Manuscript 1701: A Source for the History of the Sorbian Language; with an Introduction and Glossary (Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2009)
  • Slav Outposts in Central European History: the Wends, Sorbs and Kashubs (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016)

References

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  1. ^ "Stone, Gerald Charles", Who Was Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, 2023). Retrieved 28 January 2024.
  2. ^ "Dr Gerald Stone, 1932–2021", Herford College, Oxford, 13 September 2021. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
  3. ^ "Gerald Stone FBA", British Academy. Retrieved 28 January 2024.