sentences:  He has also served as a consultant on lexicographical methodology to the Institute of the Czech Language in Prague, to Patakis Publishers in Athens, and others.Patrick Hanks is author of many papers on lexical analysis, lexicography, onomastics, and similes and metaphor.He is editor in chief of the "Dictionary of American Family Names" (3 volumes, OUP 2003), and is co-author with Flavia Hodges and Kate Hardcastle of the "Oxford Dictionary of First Names" (1990, 2006).