W. Nelson Francis
W. Nelson Francis | |
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| Born | Winthrop Nelson Francis October 23, 1910 |
| Died | June 14, 2002 (aged 91) Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Resting place | Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, Massachusetts |
| Occupation | Writer, professor, linguist |
| Alma mater | Harvard University University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D.) |
| Genre | Nonfiction; reference |
| Subject | Linguistics |
| Notable works | Brown Corpus |
| Spouse | Anne Funkhouser Nearlene Burkley |
| Children | 3 |
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W. Nelson Francis (October 23, 1910 – June 14, 2002) was an American author, linguist, and university professor. He served as a member of the faculties of Franklin & Marshall College and Brown University, where he specialized in English and corpus linguistics. He is known for his work compiling a text collection entitled the Brown University Standard Corpus of Present-Day American English, which he completed with Henry Kučera.