Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Richard W. Bailey is Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan and editor of Dictionaries. Alfred E. Karpovich now teaches at the New School for Social Research, New York. He was educated at the State University of Leningrad, USSR, and held teaching appointments there from 1963-1980. His dissertation and subsequent independent research concern the theory of dictionary definitions. R. W. McConchie teaches English at the University of Woolongong, New South Wales, Australia. James B. Misenheimer, Jr., is Professor of English at Indiana State University, Terre Haute. For sixteen volumes, he served as American Editor of the Modern Humanities Research Association Annual Bibliography ofEnglish Language and Literature. He has published widely in the field of Johnson studies and in 1981 received the Mark Fitch Prize in Bibliography and Textual Criticism from the University of Leeds. Wolfgang Nedobity was educated in philology and librarianship in both Austria and the United Kingdom. He joined the International Information Centre for Terminology in 1980 where he is responsible for research and training activities in the General Theory of Terminology and in particular for the vocabulary ofterminology. He is in charge of the Infoterm documentation and the Wüster Research Library and is issue editor of Infoterm: Terminologies for the Eighties (München: K. G. Saur, 1982). Robert K. O'Neill has been Director of the Indiana Historical Society Library, Indianapolis, since October 1, 1 98 1 . Previously he was Head of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections and Associate Professor of library science at Indiana State University. He and Warren 135 1 36Contributors Cordell were close friends and traveled together on book buying trips in the United States and in England. O'Neill holds a Ph.D. in history and an M.A. in Library Science from the University of Chicago. Jennifer Robinson earned her M.A. in lexicography from Indiana State University. A former editor with New World Dictionaries (Simon & Schuster) in Cleveland, Ohio, she is now the staff lexicographer with Mead Data Central, a division of the Mead Corporation specializing in electronic publishing in Dayton, Ohio. She is also a member of the newly-formed Committee on Lexicographical Terminology of the DSNA. Lise Winer received her doctorate in linguistics from the University of the West Indies, Trinidad. She has conducted research in Trinidad and Quebec, taught English as a second language, and written on language teaching, language learning, sociolinguistics and creóle studies. She is currently chair of the TESOL Standard English as a Second Dialect. ...