Robert Burchfield - Selected Works

Selected Works

  • Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, 4 vols, 1972–1986
  • The Spoken Word, 1981
  • The English Language, 1985
  • Studies in Lexicography, 1987
  • Unlocking the English Language, 1991
  • Cambridge History of the English Language, Vol. 5: English in Britain and Overseas, 1994
  • (ed.) Fowler's Modern English Usage, 1998

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