Dictionary of American Family Names, 2nd Edition

By:   Patrick Hanks
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
ISBN:   9780190245115
ISBN 10:   0190245115
Pages:   2832
Publication Date:   23 February 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Dr. Patrick Hanks is a lexicographer, corpus linguist, and onomastician. For ten years (1990-2000) he was chief editor of current English Dictionaries at Oxford University Patrick Hanks is a lexicographer, corpus linguist, and onomastician. For ten years (1990-2000) he was chief editor of current English Dictionaries at Oxford University Press. More recently, he has held research posts and taught linguistics and lexicology at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Britain, America, and the Czech Republic. He is currently a visiting professor at the Research Institute of Information and Language Processing (RIILP, University of Wolverhampton, England). He is a frequent invited plenary speaker at international conferences on lexicography, corpus linguistics, figurative language, and onomastics. Simon Lenarcic was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a self-educated onomastician. Dr Peter McClure is a retired Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literature, University of Hull, England (1965-90), specializing in Middle English and early Modern English. He was the founding editor of the onomastic journal Nomina (1977-85), is a past President of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland, and is currently Vice-President of the English Place-Name Society (since 2013) and onomastic consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary (since 2007). He is the leading authority on English surname origins and the author of numerous articles on English names of all types.