Gerald Stone (literary scholar) explained

Gerald Charles Stone FBA (22 August 1932 – 11 September 2021) 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.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Publications

• The Smallest Slavonic Nation: The Sorbs of Lusatia (London: The Athlone Press, 1972)
• (with Bernard Comrie) The Russian language since the Revolution (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978)
• An Introduction to Polish (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980; 2nd edn, 1992)
• (with Bernard Comrie and Maria Polinsky) The Russian Language in the Twentieth Century (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995)
• Hornjoserbsko-jendźelski Słownik: Upper Sorbian–English Dictionary (Bautzen: Domowina Verlag, 2002)
• The Göda Manuscript 1701: A Source for the History of the Sorbian Language; with an Introduction and Glossary (Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2009)
• Slav Outposts in Central European History: the Wends, Sorbs and Kashubs (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016)

Notes and References

1. https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-36392 "Stone, Gerald Charles"
2. https://www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/news/gerald-stone-3 "Dr Gerald Stone, 1932–2021"
3. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/gerald-stone-FBA/ "Gerald Stone FBA"