Marc Alexander | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1983 (age 40–41) |
| Nationality | British |
| Awards | Queen’s Anniversary Prize (2017) Philip Leverhulme Prize (2019) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | MA, MPhil, PhD |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguist |
| Sub-discipline | Lexicographer, Corpus Linguistics, Semantics |
| Institutions | University of Glasgow |
| Notable works | Historical Thesaurus of English, Hansard Corpus |
Marc Alexander (born 1983) is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Glasgow, and Director of the Historical Thesaurus of English.[1] His research is on the semantic development of English, particularly focusing on the relationships between language, culture, and history.[2][3] As the Chief Editor of the Thesaurus, he was a recipient—as part of the University of Glasgow—of the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher Education in 2017.[4][5][6][7] He was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize of £100,000 for his linguistic research in 2019.[8][9]
He also created the Hansard Corpus, a linguistically-annotated version of the records of British Parliamentary speech from 1803 to the present.[10][11][12][13] He is also Convener of the Board of Directors of Scottish Language Dictionaries, which produces the Dictionary of the Scots Language.[14]