Sidney Greenbaum, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetSidney Greenbaum
British linguist
Date of Birth: 31-Dec-1929
Date of Death: 28-May-1996
Profession: linguist
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Sidney Greenbaum
- Sidney Greenbaum (b.
- London 31 December 1929; d.
- Moscow 28 May 1996) was a British scholar of the English language and of linguistics.
- He was Quain Professor of English language and literature at University College London from 1983 to 1990 and Director of the Survey of English Usage, 1983-96.
- With Randolph Quirk and others, he wrote A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (Longman 1985).
- He also wrote Oxford English Grammar (Oxford, 1996). He studied at Jews' College, London and was a qualified minister of religion although he never held a paid ministerial position.
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