Geoffrey Khan
Geoffrey Khan | |
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| Born | 1 February 1958 Middlesbrough, England |
| Alma mater | School of Oriental and African Studies |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Extraposition and Pronominal Agreement in Semitic Languages (1984) |
Geoffrey Allan Khan FBA (born 1 February 1958) is a British linguist and philologist of Semitic languages. He has held the post of Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge since 2012. Considered one of the world's leading experts on Aramaic, he has published grammars for numerous Aramaic dialects and he leads the North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Database Archived 8 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine. His other research has included Biblical Hebrew and medieval Arabic documents.