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Notes on Contributors Rufus H. Gouws is an Associate Professor of African Linguistics at the University of Stellenbosch where he teaches postgraduate courses in lexicography and supervises student research in this field. He has published many papers on lexicographical topics, is the author of a textbook on lexicography (Lexsikographie) and the co-editor of three Afrikaans dictionaries (Nasionale Woordeboek, Idiomewoordeboek , and Basiswoordeboek van Afrikaans. He is currently researching the problem of communicative equivalence in bilingual dictionaries. A part of this research will be carried out at the University of Exeter where he will enjoy his second term as Honorary Research Fellow. Sophia Lubensky is an Associate Professor of Slavic Languages at the State University of New York at Albany. She has M.A.'s in Classics and English, and she completed her Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of Leningrad, now St. Petersburg. She emigrated to the United States in 1976. Formerly, her primary research interests were in English studies, but her more recent publications have dealt with Russian linguistics and language, bilingual lexicography, and problems of translation. She is currently completing her Russian-English Dictionary of Idioms, to be published by Random House in 1993. Edwin A. Miles is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Houston. He is currently engaged in a study of the second edition of Webster's American Dictionary ofthe English Language (1841) and reissued after Webster's death in 1844 and 1845, the last issue being the first Webster Dictionary published by G. 8c C. Merriam Co. Sidney I. Landau is the author ofDictionaries: The Art and Craft ofLexicography (Cambridge University Press, 1989; original hardcover edition by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1984). He was the editor-in-chief of Funk & Wagnalls dictionaries, of The Doubleday Dictionary (1975), The Doubleday Roget's Thesaurus in Dictionary Form (1977), and of the International Dictionary ofMedicine and Biology (3 vols., John Wiley 8c Sons, 1986). He is now Editorial Director of the North American Branch of Cambridge University Press. His main research interest is in American attitudes toward usage, especially as reflected in dictionaries. Herbert C. Morton is an economist and editor. He was director of the American Council of Learned Societies and headed the publications programs of the Brookings Institution, Resources for the Future , and other organizations. His article on Gove's rationale for 184Notes on Contributors illustrative quotations appeared in Dictionaries 11. He is completing a book on Philip B. Gove and the controversy over W3. M. Lynne Murphy is a doctoral candidate in linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana, specializing in lexical semantics and syntax with occasional explorations in lexicography. She has collaborated with Alma Gottlieb on a dictionary ofBeng, a Southern Mande language, to be published by Indiana University Press. Her dissertation presents a universal semantic model of antonymy and will be completed in 1993. Lise Winer teaches in the Applied Linguistics and TESOL programs at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. She has published papers and given talks on folk etymology, historical texts, lexicographic field methods, standardization of orthography, languages in contact, and specialized domains—marbles, calypso, fauna. She is preparing a historical dictionary ofTrinidad and Tobago English and English Creole. A forthcoming book—Varieties of English around the World: Trinidad and Tobago—will appear soon. ...

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