Mr Andrew Hawke BA

He is responsible for Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru (the University of Wales Dictionary of the Welsh Language) project and the team of seven (currently six) who work on it.

He spent nearly three years working on research towards an historical dictionary of Cornish before being appointed Assistant Editor on Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru, the University of Wales Dictionary of the Welsh Language.

Alongside his editorial work, he developed a computer system to automatically typeset the Dictionary text from M onwards and organised the retro digitisation of the earlier volumes, gaining promotion as Assistant Editor and Systems Manager and becoming Managing Editor and Editor-in-Chief of the Dictionary in 2008.

He led a project to convert the Dictionary text to XML and introduced a new computer system (iLex) to edit it. This led to the development of GPC Online, a digital version of the Web Dictionary launched in 2014, with Android and iOS apps following in 2016.

With the aid of a grant from the Welsh Government, he led the development in 2018–19 of ‘GPC+’, a crowdsourcing pilot project to transcribe some of the Dictionary’s citation slips into a digital database.

His main academic responsibility is to edit the final text of the Dictionary as new articles are created and old articles updated.

He was promoted to Reader by the University of Wales in 2015.

He advises the Welsh Government on the linguistic infrastructure of the Welsh language as part of the Cymraeg 2050 Welsh language strategy and advises a number of bodies and organizations on lexicographic, orthographic, grammatical, &c., matters, and serves on a number of committees.

• Welsh – vocabulary, orthography, grammar, etymology
• Historical lexicography
• Computerised lexicography
• History of lexicography – especially Welsh lexicography and historical lexicography
• Cornish – language and literature and especially the history of the manuscript sources

• Language Consultant (Welsh and Cornish) to the Oxford English Dictionary
• Faclair na Gàidhlig Advisory Board Member (Scottish Gaelic historical dictionary)
• Member of the Welsh Language Infrastructure Task and Finish Group (Welsh Government)
• Member of the Welsh Language Standardization Panel (Welsh Government)

‘Welsh Lexicography’ and ‘Cornish Lexicography’, in Patrick Hanks and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (eds.), International Handbook of Modern Lexis and Lexicography (Berlin: Springer, forthcoming 2021): https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-642-45369-4

‘Coping with an expanding vocabulary: the lexicographical contribution to Welsh’, International Journal of Lexicography, 31.2 (2018), 229–48

‘Welsh dictionary’, in Mary Ritchie Key and Bernard Comrie (eds.), The Intercontinental Dictionary Series (Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 2015)

‘Defining and quotation evidence in historical dictionaries’, in Philip Durkin (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Lexicography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. [176]–202

‘Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru: ar seiliau cadarn? Geiriaduron hanesyddol, disgrifiadol, a rhagnodol’, in Delyth Prys (ed.), Ysgrifau ar Ieithyddiaeth a Geiriaduraeth Gymraeg (Caerfyrddin: Y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol, 2014)

Editor, Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru: A Dictionary of the Welsh Language, Part 12 (Second Edition) (bôn¹–brig) (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2013), 64pp

Editor, Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru: A Dictionary of the Welsh Language, Part 11 (Second Edition) (bil¹–bôn¹) (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2012), 64pp

‘Dictionaries and grammars: Cornish’ and ‘Beunans Ke’, in John T. Koch and Antone Minard (eds.), The Celts: History, Life, and Culture (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2012)

Andrew Green [sic: sc. Hawke], ‘Angen help’, Y Casglwr, 105 (Summer 2012), 8

Editor, Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru: A Dictionary of the Welsh Language, Part 10 (Second Edition) (bar¹–bil¹) (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2010), 64pp

‘Second time around: re-editing Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru’, paper presented at ‘The Fifth International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology’, Oxford, 16–18 June 2010 [available online at the Oxford University Research Archive]

Editor (with Gareth A. Bevan and Patrick J. Donovan), Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru: A Dictionary of the Welsh Language, Part 9 (Second Edition) (atchwelaf–bar¹) (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2009), 64pp

Grants awarded:

• 2015–16: Welsh Government (app development): £40,500
• 2016–17: Welsh Government: £160,000
• 2017–18: Welsh Government: £160,000 
                 Welsh Government – supplemental grant: £70,000
• 2018–19: Welsh Government: £300,000
•                Welsh Government – ‘Cymraeg 2050’ Innovation Grant for GPC+: £20,000
• 2019–20: Welsh Government: £300,000
• 2020–21: Welsh Government: £300,000