Calvert Watkins
Calvert Watkins | |
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| Born | March 13, 1933 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | March 20, 2013 (aged 80) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Title | Victor S. Thomas Professor of Linguistics and Classics |
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| Children | 4 |
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| Academic background | |
| Education | Harvard University (BA, PhD) École pratique des hautes études |
| Thesis | Indo-European origins of the Celtic verb (1962) |
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| Discipline | Linguist |
| Sub-discipline | Historical linguistics |
| Notable students | Andrew Garrett Mark Hale Jay Jasanoff Brian Joseph Joshua Katz Craig Melchert Alan Nussbaum |
| Notable works | How to Kill a Dragon |
Calvert Watkins (/ˈwɒtkɪnz/; March 13, 1933 – March 20, 2013) was an American linguist and philologist, known for his book How to Kill a Dragon. He was a professor of linguistics and the classics at Harvard University and after retirement went to serve as professor-in-residence at UCLA.