Calvert Watkins

Calvert Watkins

Calvert Watkins is a professor Emeritus of linguistics and the classics at Harvard University and professor-in-residence at UCLA.

His doctoral dissertation, "Indo-European Origins of the Celtic Verb I". "The Sigmatic Aorist" (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1962), which deeply reflected the structuralist approach of Jerzy Kuryłowicz, opened a fresh era of creative work in Celtic comparative linguistics and the study of the verbal system of Indo-European languages.

Watkins, in a sense, completed his contribution to this area with his "Indogermanische Grammatik III/1: Geschichte der Indogermanischen Verbalflexion" (1969). Meanwhile, his work on Indo-European vocabulary and poetics yielded a large number of articles on (among others) Celtic, Anatolian, Greek, Italic and Indo-Iranian material, presented most thoroughly in his latest book, "How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics" (Oxford University Press, 1995).

He contributed his expertise on Indo-European languages to the first edition of "The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language" and edited "The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots" (ISBN 0-618-08250-6).

External links

* [http://www.bartleby.com/61/8.html Essay by Calvert Watkins on Indo-European, from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language]


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Calvert (name) — Calvert is a given name and a surname.People with the first name Calvert* Calvert DeForest (1921 2007), American actor and comedian * Calvert L. Willey (1920 1994), second Executive Vice President of the Institute of Food Technologists * Calvert… …   Wikipedia

  • Watkins (surname) — Watkins is an English and Welsh surname derived as a patronymic from Watkin, in turn a diminutive of the name Watt (also Wat), a popular Middle English given name itself derived as a pet form of the name Walter. It may refer to: *Aaron S. Watkins …   Wikipedia

  • Уоткинс, Калверт — В Википедии есть статьи о других людях с такой фамилией, см. Уоткинс. Калверт Уоткинс (англ. Calvert Watkins), р. 1933  профессор лингвистики и древних языков в Гарвардском и Калифорнийcком университетах, автор ряда монографий и более… …   Википедия

  • Illuyanka (récit) — Le Dieu de l orage tuant le dragon Illuyankas, représentation sur calcaire néo hittite (850 800 av. J. C.) trouvée à Malatya. Musée des civilisations anatoliennes, Ankara. Le Combat du dragon ou Illuyanka est un texte mythologique hittite qui… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Indo-European ablaut — In linguistics, the term ablaut designates a system of vowel gradation (i.e. regular vowel variations) in Proto Indo European (PIE) and its far reaching consequences in all of the modern Indo European languages. (For the general phenomenon, see… …   Wikipedia

  • Germanic substrate hypothesis — The Germanic substrate hypothesis is an attempt to explain the distinctive nature of the Germanic languages within the context of the Indo European language family. It postulates that the elements of the common Germanic vocabulary and syntactical …   Wikipedia

  • Italo-Celtic — In historical linguistics, Italo Celtic refers to the observation that the Italic languages and the Celtic languages share a number of common features unique to these two groups. These are usually thought of as innovations which are likely to… …   Wikipedia

  • Indo-Européen Commun — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Indo européen. Indo européen Langues indo européennes Albanais | Anatolien Arménien | Balte …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Indo-europeen commun — Indo européen commun Pour les articles homonymes, voir Indo européen. Indo européen Langues indo européennes Albanais | Anatolien Arménien | Balte …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Proto-indo-européen — Indo européen commun Pour les articles homonymes, voir Indo européen. Indo européen Langues indo européennes Albanais | Anatolien Arménien | Balte …   Wikipédia en Français

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”