Terence Wade

Terence Wade
Born(1930-05-19)19 May 1930
Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England
Died22 November 2005(2005-11-22) (aged 75)
Glasgow, Scotland
NationalityBritish
Spouse
Mary McEwan
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(m. 1958)​
Children2[1]
AwardsMedal of Pushkin (1996)
Academic background
Education
ThesisMeanings of Extent and Purpose in Modern Russian Primary Prepositions (1977)
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
InstitutionsUniversity of Strathclyde
Main interestsRussian

Terence Leslie Brian Wade (19 May 1930 – 22 November 2005) was an English linguist who was Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Strathclyde from 1987 to 1995. After reading German and French at Durham University, he was both a student and instructor in the Joint Services School for Linguists, during which time he studied Russian at Cambridge. He arrived in Glasgow in 1963, and taught and developed courses at Strathclyde, where he received a PhD in 1977. He had a successful stint as chairman of the university's Department of Modern Languages from 1985 to 1993.

In the course of what The Scotsman described as his "55-year love affair with the Russian language",[2] Wade wrote a dozen books about grammar and linguistics, including his Comprehensive Russian Grammar (1992) and Russian Etymological Dictionary (1996). The Times has called his works "classics in their field",[1] and Wade is considered one of Britain's pre-eminent Russianists.[1][3] He was awarded the Russian government's prestigious Medal of Pushkin in 1996.[4]

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