Gerald Stone (literary scholar)

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
  • 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
  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.
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