Biography:Philip Durkin
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Philip Durkin | |
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| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Known for | Deputy Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Lexicography; etymology; historical linguistics |
| Institutions | Oxford University Press; University of Glasgow |
Philip N. R. Durkin is a lexicographer and etymologist, Deputy Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and leader of its team of specialist etymology editors. His books include The Oxford Guide to Etymology (2009) and Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English (2014), and he is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Lexicography (2015).
Education
Durkin earned a doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1994 with a thesis on late Middle English prose texts.[1]
Career
Durkin has worked on the OED since the late 1990s and leads its etymology and form-history work.[2][3][4] He has also held an honorary research post in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow.[5]
Selected works
Books
- Durkin, Philip (2009). The Oxford Guide to Etymology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-969161-6.[6][7]
- Durkin, Philip (2014). Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-957499-5.[8][9][10]
- Durkin, Philip, ed (2015). The Oxford Handbook of Lexicography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-969163-0.[11][12][13]
- Harvey, Anthony; Durkin, Philip (2018). Spoken Through: How Scholarly Dictionaries Mediate the Past. H. M. Chadwick Memorial Lectures 28. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, University of Cambridge Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. ISBN 978-1-909106-18-5.
Articles
- Durkin, Philip N. R. (May 1999). "Root and Branch: Revising the etymological component of the Oxford English Dictionary". Transactions of the Philological Society 97 (1): 1–150. doi:10.1111/1467-968X.00044. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-968X.00044.
References
- ↑ Durkin, Philip N. R. (1974). A study of Oxford, Trinity College, MS 86, with editions of selected texts, and with special reference to late Middle English prose forms of confession (D. Phil.). University of Oxford, Department of English. OCLC 557319557.
- ↑ Durkin, Philip (2022). "Tracking the history of words: changing perspectives, changing research". Journal of the British Academy 10: 67–91. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/4305/JBA-10-p067-Durkin.pdf. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
- ↑ Hodgson, Charles. "Philip Durkin – Language and Brain Lab (Oxford)". https://brainlab.web.ox.ac.uk/people/philip-durkin.
- ↑ "Podictionary Interview – Philip Durkin". Oxford University Press. 15 October 2009. https://blog.oup.com/2009/10/philip-durkin/.
- ↑ "Dr Philip Durkin — Honorary Senior Research Fellow". https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/index.html/staffcontact/person/4edde7e58696.
- ↑ Roberge, Paul T. (March 2011). "Review: The Oxford Guide to Etymology". English Language & Linguistics 15 (1): 183–88. doi:10.1017/S1360674310000341. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/english-language-and-linguistics/article/philip-durkin-the-oxford-guide-to-etymology-oxford-oxford-university-press-2009-pp-x-350-hardback-2500/3313D1A25A6C86677CDDCAC3B3EBBFD4. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
- ↑ Seebold, Elmar (February 2011). "Philip Durkin, The Oxford Guide to Etymology" (in de). Anglia 128 (2): 323–25. doi:10.1515/angl.2010.035. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/angl.2010.035/html.
- ↑ Podhajecka, Mirosława (2014). "Review: Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English". International Journal of Lexicography 27 (4): 457–66. doi:10.1093/ijl/ecu022. https://academic.oup.com/ijl/article-abstract/27/4/457/936165.
- ↑ Turner, Robin (3 March 2014). "Welsh has had less influence on English than Hawaiian - claim". https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/welsh-less-influence-english-hawaiian-6768011.
- ↑ "Maori one of most borrowed languages". The New Zealand Herald. 21 March 2014. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/maori-one-of-most-borrowed-languages/5DLTIGEKH5L3HFWBNDSMFT32MA/.
- ↑ Dehui, Li (2017). "Review: The Oxford Handbook of Lexicography". Lexikos 27: 609–613. https://scielo.org.za/scielo.php?pid=S2224-00392017000100027&script=sci_arttext. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
- ↑ Healey, Antonette diPaolo (2017). "The Oxford Handbook of Lexicography ed. by Philip Durkin (review)". Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 38 (2): 114–19. doi:10.1353/dic.2017.0013. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/153/article/679597/summary.
- ↑ Trap-Jensen, Lars (March 2018). "Philip Durkin (ed): The Oxford Handbook of Lexicography". International Journal of Lexicography 31 (1): 114–18. doi:10.1093/ijl/ecw043. https://academic.oup.com/ijl/article-abstract/31/1/114/2736389.
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