Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors Brad Benz is an Assistant Professor of English at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, where he lives with his wife and their dog. Ronald R. Butters is Professor of English and Cultural Anthropology at Duke University and chairs the Duke Linguistics Program . He is co-chair, with Walt Wolfram, of the Duke-North Carolina State University Cooperative Doctoral Program in English Linguistics. He will chair the local arrangements committee for the next meeting of DSNA, to be held at Duke University in May 2003. His article, "Cary Grant and the Emergence of gay 'homosexual'," appeared Dictionaries 19 (1998). Gilles-Maurice de Schryver became a micro-electronic engineer in 1995, with a thesis written in the Department of Elementary Particle Physics of Stockholm University (Sweden) . That same year he received a Spanish language diploma from the Instituto Superior Pedagógico, Pinar del Rio (Cuba). He then went on to become an African-language linguist in 1999, with a thesis initiated at the universities of Pretoria and Stellenbosch (South Africa). He is currendy a Research Assistant of the Fund for Scientific Research — Flanders (Belgium ), in the Department of African Languages and Cultures. He recently received the Laurence Urdang Award administered by EURALEX , for implementing Fuzzy SF — the core concept of his Ph.D. dissertation for the University of Ghent. Kazuo Dohi is Professor of English at Tokyo Gakuen Women's College, Tokyo. He studies the development of monolingual English dictionaries, including ESL dictionaries, as well as English-Japanese dictionaries. His works include theJapanese translation (1999) of Herbert C. Morton's The Story ofWebster's Third (Cambridge UP, 1994) and successive papers on the historical development of English-Japanese dictionaries in Lexicon, thejournal of the Iwasaki Linguistic Circle. Joan Houston Hall has been associated with the Dictionary of American Regional English since 1975. She was made Associate Editor in 1979 and became Chief Editor following the death of Frederic G. Cassidy in 2000. She is immediate Past President of DSNA and serves as the American Dialect Society's delegate to the American Council of Learned Societies. Brenda K. Lester is a former assistant editor of "Among the New Words" and is currently working on her M.A.E. at Georgia College 234Notes on Contributors & State University. She has co-authored papers and lectured on "Among the New Words" and new words research. She has chosen Mary Gray Porter as the subject of her master's thesis, which will include an extensive glossary of unpublished words taken from the Mary Gray Porter/I. Willis Russell archives. She hopes to pursue a career in lexicography. D. J. Prinsloo is Head of the Department of African Languages at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is the author or co-author of several dictionaries and publications on corpus-based Bantu-language lexicography. He has done extensive research on problematic aspects of lemmatization in Bantu languages and is actively involved in the compilation of corpora for Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, Southern and Northern Sotho, Tswana, Venda, Tsonga, and Ndebele. Michael C. Shapiro is Professor ofAsian Languages and Literature and Adjunct Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington . His areas of specialization include Hindi language, linguistics, and literature, and Indo-Aryan linguistics. Among his publications are A Primer ofModern Standard Hindi and (with Harold F. Schiffman) Language and Society in South Asia. Thora van Male is Maître de Conférences at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Grenoble, France. Until recently, her research has borne principally on lexical borrowing; her doctoral dissertation was on loan words in Canadian English. She has recently turned to a new field, the ornamental illustrations in dictionaries, and is currently working on a database for this unusual corpus. ...