Gerald Stone (literary scholar)


Gerald Charles Stone FBA was a British linguist. From 1972 to 1999, he was a fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, and a lecturer in non-Russian Slavonic languages at the University of Oxford. He had previously taught at the universities of Nottingham and Cambridge. He instituted the teaching of Polish to undergraduates at Oxford, was a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary and was general editor of the Oxford Slavonic Papers. He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1992.

Publications

The Smallest Slavonic Nation: The Sorbs of Lusatia The Russian language since the Revolution An Introduction to Polish The Russian Language in the Twentieth Century Hornjoserbsko-jendźelski Słownik: Upper Sorbian–English Dictionary The Göda Manuscript 1701: A Source for the History of the Sorbian Language; with an Introduction and Glossary