Robert F Ilson

Biographic Data

ID5383070
NAMERobert F Ilson
GIVEN NAMESRobert F
FAMILY NAMEIlson
SIGNATUREILSON R F
AFFILIATIONSUniversity College London
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1962
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX1

  • The Explanatory Technique of Translation

    Robert F Ilson, R IlsonARTICLEInternational Journal of…2013References: 1

    Journal Article The Explanatory Technique of Translation Get access Robert Ilson Robert Ilson University College London, United Kingdom ([email protected]) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Lexicography, Volume 26, Issue 3, September 2013, Pages 386–393, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ect020 Published: 02 August 2013

  • Ijl

    Robert F IlsonARTICLEInternational Journal of…2012

    Journal Article IJL: The First Ten Years—and Beyond Get access R.F. Ilson R.F. Ilson Honorary Research Fellow, University College London ([email protected]) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Lexicography, Volume 25, Issue 4, December 2012, Pages 381–385, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ecs021 Published: 08 December 2012

  • On the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary

    Robert F IlsonARTICLEInternational Journal of…2010Cited by: 1

    Journal Article On the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary Get access R. F. Ilson R. F. Ilson University College London ([email protected]) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Lexicography, Volume 24, Issue 2, June 2011, Pages 241–260, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ecq032 Published: 07 October 2010

  • Laurence Urdang. The Last Word - The English Language

    Robert F Ilson, R IlsonARTICLEInternational Journal of…2008

    Laurence Urdang's book is of interest for at least two reasons. First, because of his own stature as a lexicographer. Second, because of the nature of his book. These two reasons are connected. The book's subtitle tells us unashamedly that it comprises ‘Opinions and Prejudices’. It is written in the voice of a person, not in the voice of an institution. Its views are those of Laurence Urdang, Esq., not of OmniData. So whether the book is worth re…

  • A(n) -dropping

    Open AccessRobert Ilson, Robert F IlsonARTICLEEnglish Today1995

    ROBERT ILSON takes up the issue of possible missing indefinite articles in phrases such as ‘He's nice man’, raised by Tom McArthur in ‘Is it new way of speaking?’ (Comment, ET40, Oct 94)

  • Ocelang

    Robert Ilson, Robert F IlsonARTICLEInternational Journal of…1993

    OCELang: Background Articles Robert Ilson Robert Ilson London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Lexicography, Volume 6, Issue 1, Spring 1993, Pages 19–29, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/6.1.19 Published: 01 March 1993

  • BudaLEX Presidential Debate 1988

    Robert Ilson, Robert F IlsonARTICLEInternational Journal of…1992

    BudaLEX Presidential Debate 1988: Part 4 Get access Robert Ilson Robert Ilson Honorary Research Fellow, University CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Lexicography, Volume 5, Issue 4, Winter 1992, Pages 275–277, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/5.4.275 Published: 01 December 1992

  • English Bake Revisited (Bake-ing an ECD)

    Robert Ilson, Robert F Ilson et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…1989

    This paper displays some of the major principles of the Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionary through the treatment of the English verb (to) BAKE and a few expressions related to it semantically and morphologically. Special effort is deployed to demonstrate the process of lexicographic work and to justify certain solutions proposed by the authors. The paper is also a response to the call by Mackenzie and Mel'čuk (1988: 80) for IJL to provide as ma…

  • Revolutionizing Dictionaries

    Thomas M Paikeday, Morton Benson et al.ARTICLEAmerican Speech1989

  • The BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English

    Morton Benson, Evellyn Benson et al.BOOKThe BBI Combinatory Dictionary of…1986

  • The Linguistic Significance of Some Lexicographic Conventions

    Robert F Ilson, R IlsonARTICLEApplied Linguistics1985

    Journal Article The Linguistic Significance of Some Lexicographic Conventions Get access ROBERT ILSON ROBERT ILSON University CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume 6, Issue 2, 1985, Pages 162–172, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/6.2.162 Published: 01 August 1985

  • Diversity in Unity American & British English

    Open AccessRobert Ilson, Robert F IlsonARTICLEEnglish Today1985

    What separates the two major varieties of the language, apart from a great deal of water? An American domiciled in Britain looks at both the obvious and the not-quite-so-obvious in what unites and divides them

  • The Survey, the Language, and the Teacher

    Open AccessRobert Ilson, Robert F IlsonARTICLEWorld Englishes1984

  • Comparative constructions in contemporary English∗

    Claus Gnutzmann, Robert Ilson et al.ARTICLEEnglish Studies1973Cited by: 1References: 1

    (1973). Comparative constructions in contemporary English. English Studies: Vol. 54, No. 5, pp. 417-438

  • The Dicto-comp

    Open AccessRobert Ilson, Robert F IlsonARTICLELanguage Learning1962Cited by: 1