W. Sidney Allen
William Sidney Allen | |
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Photograph of Allen c.1982, from his obituary in the Proceedings of the British Academy | |
| Born | 18 March 1918 London |
| Died | 22 April 2004 (aged 86) |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Academic |
| Spouses | Aenea McCallum
(m. 1955; died 1996)Diana Stroud (m. 2002) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Thesis | Linguistic problems and their treatment in antiquity (1948) |
| Doctoral advisor | A. J. Beattie |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classical Philology, Linguistics |
| Sub-discipline | Historical linguistics, Sanskrit, Indo-European phonology. |
| Institutions | School of Oriental & African Studies, London, Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Notable works | Vox Latina (1965); Vox Graeca (1968) |
William Sidney Allen, FBA (18 March 1918 – 22 April 2004), was a British linguist and philologist, best known for his work on Indo-European phonology.