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Otto Jespersen

Otto Jespersen was a prominent 20th-century Danish linguist known primarily for his pioneering work in lexicography. He...

Danish 20TH Century Historical English

9.1 Excellent

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Rasmus Rask

Rasmus Rask was a 19th-century Danish lexicographer whose meticulous work significantly advanced the study of Scandinavi...

Danish 19TH Century Comparative Scandinavian

8.9 Great

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Christiane Fellbaum

Christiane Fellbaum is a prominent lexicographer specializing in English language resources. She is best known as a co-c...

English Computational Current Wordnet

8.8 Great

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Jonathon Green

Jonathon Green is a British slang lexicographer whose Green's Dictionary of Slang appeared in print in 2010 and online i...

Historical English Current Slang

8.7 Great

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John Simpson

John Simpson is a British lexicographer who served as chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and oversaw its 1989...

English Current Oed Chief Editor

8.7 Great

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Igor Mel'čuk

Igor Mel'čuk, a Soviet-born Canadian linguist, co-developed Meaning-Text Theory and produced explanatory combinatorial d...

French Theory Explanatory Current

8.6 Great

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Bryan Garner

Bryan Garner is a prominent American lexicographer known for his work clarifying contemporary usage of the English langu...

American Contemporary Usage English

8.5 Great

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Bryan A. Garner

Bryan A. Garner is an American legal lexicographer, editor of Black's Law Dictionary since 1999 and author of Garner's M...

Usage English Legal Current

8.4 Great

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Edmund Weiner

Edmund Weiner is a British lexicographer who co-edited the 1989 second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary with Joh...

Historical English Current Oed

8.2 Great

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Philip Durkin

Philip Durkin is a British lexicographer and etymologist known for OED etymology work and The Oxford Guide to Etymology,...

English Current Etymology Oed

8.1 Great

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Pekka Sammallahti

Pekka Sammallahti is a Finnish linguist and lexicographer noted for major work on Sami languages, including a Northern S...

Bilingual Sami Finnish Current

8.0 Great

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Mohamed Chafik

Mohamed Chafik, a Moroccan linguist and Amazigh activist born in 1926, produced a three-volume Arabic-Amazigh dictionary...

Standardization Current Berber Amazigh

7.7 Good

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Peter Gilliver

Peter Gilliver is a British lexicographer and OED associate editor who published The Making of the Oxford English Dictio...

Historical English Current Oed

7.7 Good

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Jim Breen

Jim Breen is a computational linguist whose EDICT project, begun in 1991, became JMdict, a major open Japanese-English d...

Japanese Digital English Current

7.6 Good

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Li Fanwen

Li Fanwen, a Chinese Tangutologist born in 1932, produced a 1997 Tangut-Chinese dictionary with 6,000 characters and won...

Chinese Bilingual Current Tangut

7.6 Good

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Michael Proffitt

Michael Proffitt is a British lexicographer who became the Chief Editor of the *Oxford English Dictionary* in 2013, over...

English Current Oed Chief Editor

7.6 Good

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Henning Bergenholtz

Danish lexicographer Henning Bergenholtz helped shape Aarhus function theory and co-edited the 1995 Manual of Specialise...

Danish Lsp Current Metalexicography

7.5 Good

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Erin McKean

Erin McKean, an American lexicographer, edited the 2005 New Oxford American Dictionary and co-founded the online diction...

English Oxford Current Wordnik

7.5 Good

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Jesse Sheidlower

Jesse Sheidlower is an American lexicographer and former Oxford English Dictionary editor, also known for research on En...

English Current Slang Oed

7.5 Good

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Alf Torp

Alf Torp was a Norwegian linguist and lexicographer who co-authored influential Norwegian etymological dictionary work i...

Danish Norwegian Past Etymology

7.2 Good