Though best known for his extensive and often transformative writings on lexicography and corpus linguistics, Patrick Hanks was also a career lexicographer with a strong track record of managing a string of groundbreaking dictionaries. His experience at the lexicographic coalface led him to question dictionary conventions, especially when the corpus data seemed to be at odds with traditional approaches to identifying and explaining meanings. His ideas about meaning potentials, his focus on ‘the probable not the possible’, and his Theory of Norms and Exploitations all arose directly from the experience of analysing corpus data in order to describe how words behave and combine. He was involved in almost every major development in our field over the last 50 years, and his influence will continue to be felt for as long as people are analysing language and making dictionaries.

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讣告：帕特里克·温德姆·汉克斯

帕特里克·汉克斯因其在词典编纂和语料库语言学方面的广泛且经常具有变革性的著作而闻名，但他也是一位职业词典编纂者，在管理一系列开创性词典方面拥有良好的记录。他在词典编纂工作面的经验使他对词典惯例提出质疑，尤其是当语料库数据似乎与识别和解释含义的传统方法不一致时。他关于意义潜力的想法、他对“可能而不是可能”的关注以及他的规范和利用理论都直接源于分析语料库数据以描述单词如何行为和组合的经验。过去 50 年来，他几乎参与了我们领域的每一项重大发展，只要人们还在分析语言和制作词典，他的影响力就会持续存在。