Dr Gerald Stone FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 1992
- Year of birth
- 1932
- Year of death
- 2021
- Subjects
- Linguistics
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
Summary
Born in Surbiton, Surrey, in 1932, Gerald Stone was a graduate of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of the University of London. He taught Slavonic languages and comparative Slavonic philology at the Universities of Nottingham (1966-71) and Cambridge (1971-2) before becoming a lecturer in non-Russian Slavonic languages at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Hertford College from 1972 to 1999. He was then an Emeritus Fellow of Hertford and continued his research into the historical linguistics of the Slavonic languages, especially Kashubian, Polish, Russian, Slovene, and Sorbian. His main interests were in pronominal address, language contact, dialectology, etymology, the Slav substratum in Trans-Elbian German, and scrutinizing primary sources. He was responsible for introducing Polish to the Oxford modern languages syllabus and was a language consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Last post
Emeritus Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford
Past appointments
University of Oxford Fellow of Hertford College and Lecturer in Non-Russian Slavonic Languages
1972 - 1999
Publications
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