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Randolph QuirkCharles Randolph Quirk (born 1920) a British linguist2021/7/241 He attended King William's College on the Isle of Man and then went to University College London to read English under Albert Hugh Smith. His studies began in 1939 but were interrupted by the war in 1940, to be completed from 1945 to 1947. He was awarded MA, PhD, and D.Lit and became a lecturer in English at UCL from 1947 to 1954. 2021/7/242•Quirk lectured and taught seminars at University College, London, in Old English (Anglo-Saxon) and in History of the English Language. These two disciplines were part of a ten-discipline set of Final examinations in the undergraduate syllabus. At that time, Old and Middle English, along with History of the English Language, were all compulsory subjects. •In 1985, he was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Letters) by the University of Bath.[2]2021/7/243Publications•Quirk, Randolph; Wrenn, Charles Leslie (1957). An Old English Grammar. Taylor & Francis. Pp. 166. ISBN 0-416-77240-4. •Quirk, Randolph; Greenbaum, Sidney; Leech, Geoffrey; Svartvik, Jan (1985). A comprehensive grammar of the English language. Harlow: Longman. Pp. 1779. ISBN 0-582-51734-6.•Quirk, Randolph (1986). Words at work: lectures on textual structure. NUS Press. Pp. 137. ISBN 9971-69-102-7. •Greenbaum, Sidney; Quirk, Randolph (1990). A Student's Grammar of the English Language. Addison Wesley Publishing Company. Pp. 496. ISBN 0-582-05971-2. 2021/7/2442021/7/245。