Notes on Contributors

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Richard W. Bailey is Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan and is editor of Dictionaries. Henri Béjoint teaches in the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Lyon. David L. Gold is a frequent contributor to Dictionaries. He is a specialist in Jewish Languages at the University of Haifa. Sidney Greenbaum is Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College, London. Robert Hetzron teaches in the Department of Germanic Languages at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Neil C. Hultin is a faculty member working on the "New Oxford English Dictionary" project at the University of Waterloo. David Jost was formerly an editor of the Middle English Dictionary. He is now employed as a lexicographer by Houghton Mifflin Company, publisher of the American Heritage Dictionary. Stephen Lappert is an editor for the Middle English Dictionary in Ann Arbor. Harry M. Logan is a computer specialist who has worked with scholars in the humanities at the University of Waterloo. He is an active member of the Association for Computers and the Humanities. 303 304Notes on Contributors Charles F. Meyer is Assistant Professor of English at Western Kentucky University. Salikoko S. Mufwene teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Georgia. He has recently been conducting field research on the Sea Island Creole spoken on the Georgia-South Carolina coast. Allen Walker Read, whose testimony in a service mark case is summarized in this issue of Dictionaries, is Professor Emeritus of English at Columbia University. He is a former President of the Dictionary Society of North America. Jürgen Schäfer is Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Augsburg. His Documentation in the O. E. D. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980) was reviewd in Dictionaries no. 3. Gabriele Stein is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Hamburg. Her study on the early history of English dictionaries, The English Dictionary before Cawdrey, is due to appear in Spring 1985 from Niemeyer in Tübingen. Jess Stein died on June 23, 1984. He was editor-in-chief emeritus of the Random House Dictionaries, a firm he served for more than forty years. He was introduced to lexicography as a graduate student at the University of Chicago where he worked under Sir William Craigie on the Dictionary of American English. His testimony on the air-shuttle litigation is summarized in this issue of Dictionaries. Roger J. Steiner is Professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures at the University of Delaware. He was one of the principal organizers of the 1983 meeting of the Dictionary Society of North America. Notes on Contributors305 John W. Taylor is Assistant Professor of English and Linguistics at South Dakota State University. Richard E. Wood has recently been teaching English in the Abha Branch of King Saud University in Saudi Arabia. He is editor of the journal Language Problems & Language Planning. Laurence Urdang is President of Laurence Urdang, Inc., a firm dedicated to the production of reference works for markets in the United Kingdom and the United States. He is also editor of Verbatim, the language quarterly. Ladislav Zgusta is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is President of the Dictionary Society of North America. ...