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David Barnhart
David K. Barnhart (born 1941) is an American lexicographer who specializes in new words. He began his career helping his father, Clarence Barnhart, edit the ''Thorndike-Barnhart'' dictionary series. In 1980 he founded Lexik House Publishers. In the 1980s Lexik House published ''ТРОйКА--The TROIKA Introduction to Russian Letters and sounds'' (c. 1980) by Reason A. Goodwin, the ''Dictionary of Bahamian English'' (c. 1982) by John A. Holm with Alison Watt Shilling, and in 1987 ''The Dictionary of Gambling and Gaming'' by Thomas L. Clark. In 1982 he, with his father, began work on ''The Barnhart Dictionary Companion'', a quarterly publication documenting appearance of new words, new meanings and new usages in English. This carries on the tradition of the '' Barnhart Dictionary of New English'' series (edited by his father, brother Robert Barnhart, and Sol Steinmetz), which was last published in 2001. He wrote ''Neo Words: A Dictionary of the Newest and Most Unusual Words of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarence Barnhart
Clarence Lewis Barnhart (1900–1993) was an American lexicographer best known for editing the ''Thorndike-Barnhart'' series of graded dictionaries, published by Scott Foresman & Co. which were based on word lists and concepts of definition developed by psychological theorist Edward Thorndike. Barnhart subsequently revised and expanded the series and with the assistance of his sons, maintaining them through the 1980s. Early years Barnhart attended the University of Chicago and studied under noted linguist and primary founder of the Linguistic Society of America, Leonard Bloomfield. Barnhart was influenced by Bloomfield's approach to learning which included developing word lists based on frequency of use and citation files based on real-world examples. In 1929, Barnhart joined book publisher Scott, Foresman & Co. eventually becoming an editor. Scott, Foresman paid for portions of his education in exchange for a promise of employment when his studies were complete. Barnhart gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dictionary
A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by radical and stroke for ideographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies, pronunciations, translation, etc.Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition, 2002 It is a lexicographical reference that shows inter-relationships among the data. A broad distinction is made between general and specialized dictionaries. Specialized dictionaries include words in specialist fields, rather than a complete range of words in the language. Lexical items that describe concepts in specific fields are usually called terms instead of words, although there is no consensus whether lexicology and terminology are two different fields of study. In theory, general dictionaries are supposed to be semasiological, mapping word to definition, while specialized dictionaries are supposed to be onomasiological, first identifying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barnhart Dictionary Of New English
Barnhart is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Berta Barnhart, member of Seattle City Planning Commission *Brian Barnhart, American auto racing executive *Clarence Barnhart (1900-1993), American lexicographer *Clyde Barnhart (1895-1980), American baseball player * Dan Barnhart (born 1912), American football player *David Barnhart (born 1941), American lexicographer *Ed Barnhart (born 1968), American archaeologist and explorer * Edgar Barnhart (1904-1984), American baseball pitcher * Frank A. Barnhart, American actor and director *Gordon Barnhart (born 1945), Canadian politician *Henry A. Barnhart (1858-1934), American politician * Jeffrey L. Barnhart (born 1956), American politician *Jennifer Barnhart (born 1972), American puppeteer and actress *Jo Anne B. Barnhart (born 1950), American civil servant *John Hendley Barnhart (1871-1949), American botanist and author *Katie Barnhart, American figure skater *Keith Barnhart (born 1962), American musician *Les Barnhart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Barnhart
Robert K. Barnhart (1933 – April 2007) was an American lexicographer and editor of various specialized dictionaries. He was co-editor, with his father Clarence Barnhart, on some editions of the '' Thorndike-Barnhart'' dictionaries and ''The World Book Dictionary''. With his father and Sol Steinmetz, he edited the three volumes of ''The Barnhart Dictionary of New English'' (1973, 1980, 1990). He also edited ''The Hammond Barnhart Dictionary of Science'' (1986), also published as ''The American Heritage Dictionary of Science'' (1988). Perhaps his major work is ''The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology Barnhart is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Berta Barnhart, member of Seattle City Planning Commission *Brian Barnhart, American auto racing executive *Clarence Barnhart (1900-1993), American lexicographer * Clyde Barnhart (1 ...'' (1988), which is marketed under the title ''Chambers Dictionary of Etymology'' in the United Kingdom. It is one of the most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sol Steinmetz
Sol Steinmetz (July 29, 1930 – October 13, 2010) was a Hungarian American linguistics and lexicography expert who wrote extensively about etymologies, definitions and uncovered earliest recorded usages of words in English and Yiddish. A widely sought source on all things lexical, he earned recognition from William Safire in his ''On Language'' column in ''The New York Times Magazine'' in 2006 as a "lexical supermaven". Steinmetz was born in Budapest on July 29, 1930, and emigrated from Hungary before the outbreak of World War II to the United States, with brief intervals spent in the Dominican Republic and Venezuela. He earned his undergraduate degree from Yeshiva University with a major in English and received his ''semikhah'' (rabbinic ordination) from YU's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He supported himself as a ''hazzan'' while he studied linguistics at Columbia University, where he trained under Yiddish scholar Uriel Weinreich, before leaving graduate school to ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan A
Allan may refer to: People * Allan (name), a given name and surname, including list of people and characters with this name * Allan (footballer, born 1984) (Allan Barreto da Silva), Brazilian football striker * Allan (footballer, born 1989) (Allan dos Santos Natividade), Brazilian football forward * Allan (footballer, born 1991) (Allan Marques Loureiro), Brazilian football midfielder * Allan (footballer, born 1994) (Allan Christian de Almeida), Brazilian football midfielder * Allan (footballer, born 1997) (Allan Rodrigues de Souza), Brazilian football midfielder Places * Allan, Queensland, Australia * Allan, Saskatchewan, Canada * Allan, the Allaine river's lower course, in France * Allan, Drôme, town in France * Allan, Iran (other), places in Iran Other uses * Allan, a Clan Grant split (or sept) * Ahlawat or Allan, an ethnic clan in India * ''Allan'', a 1966 film directed by Donald Shebib * "Allan" (song), a 1988 song recorded by the French artist Mylène Farmer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dictionary Society Of North America
The Dictionary Society of North America (DSNA) was founded in 1975 to encourage scholarly and professional activities that have to do with dictionaries and lexicography. Since 1994, DSNA has been a member of the American Council of Learned Societies. The society, one of the largest professional associations for dictionary-makers, has more than 400 members and sponsors a biennial conference for the presentation of scholarly papers on aspects of lexicographical history, theory and practice. It also publishes an annual journal of dictionary scholarship, ''Dictionaries'' (founded in 1979; accessible online through Project MUSE), and a semiannual newsletter. Copies of the newsletter and tables of contents of the journal are archived at the society's web page (see link below), which also provides news about dictionaries and membership and conference information. Distinguished former members of the society include Frederic G. Cassidy (1907–2000), editor of the ''Dictionary of American R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Linguistic Association
The International Linguistic Association (ILA) was founded in 1943 as the Linguistic Circle of New York. Its founding members were academic linguists in the New York area, including many members of the École Libre des Hautes Études in exile. The model for the new organization was the Société de Linguistique de Paris. Early members included Roman Jakobson, Morris Swadesh, André Martinet, Henri F. Muller, Giuliano Bonfante, Robert Austerlitz, Robert Fowkes, Henry Lee Smith, Wolf Leslau, and Louis H. Gray. The Circle began publishing the journal WORD in 1945 under the editorship of Pauline Taylor. Both the Circle and the journal soon became known as one of the main sources of new ideas in American linguistics before the Chomsky Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American public intellectual: a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is ... era ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Dialect Society
The American Dialect Society (ADS), founded in 1889, is a learned society "dedicated to the study of the English language in North America, and of other languages, or dialects of other languages, influencing it or influenced by it." The Society publishes the academic journal ''American Speech''. Since its foundation, dialectologists in English-speaking North America have affiliated themselves with the American Dialect Society, an association which in its first constitution defined its objective as "the investigation of the spoken English of the United States and Canada" (Constitution, 1890). Over the years, its objective has remained essentially the same, only expanded to encompass "the English language in North America, together with other languages or dialects of other languages influencing it or influenced by it" (Fundamentals, 1991). History The organization was founded as part of an effort to create a comprehensive American dialect dictionary, a near century-long undertaking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Lexicographers
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1941 Births
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Euthanasia Centre in Germany, in the first phase of mass killings under the Action T4 program here. * January 1 – Thailand's Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram decrees January 1 as the official start of the Thai solar calendar new year (thus the previous year that began April 1 had only 9 months). * January 3 – A decree (''Normalschrifterlass'') promulgated in Germany by Martin Bormann, on behalf of Adolf Hitler, requires replacement of blackletter typefaces by Antiqua. * January 4 – The short subject ''Elmer's Pet Rabbit'' is released, marking the second appearance of Bugs Bunny, and also the first to have his name on a title card. * January 5 – WWII: Battle of Bardia in Libya: Australian and British troops def ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Related categories * :Year of birth missing (living people) / :Year of birth unknown * :Date of birth missing (living people) / :Date of birth unknown * :Place of birth missing (living people) / :Place of birth unknown * :Year of death missing / :Year of death unknown * :Date of death missing / :Date of death unknown * :Place of death missing / :Place of death unknown * :Missing middle or first names See also * :Dead people * :Template:L, which generates this category or death years, and birth year and sort keys. : {{DEFAULTSORT:Living people 21st-century people People by status ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
