Calvert Watkins | |
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Born | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States | March 13, 1933
Died | March 20, 2013 Los Angeles, California, United States | (aged 80)
Title | Victor S. Thomas Professor of Linguistics and Classics |
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Children | Cynthia Watkins, David Cushman, Catherine Cushman, and Nicholas Watkins |
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Academic background | |
Education | Harvard University (BA, 1954; PhD, 1959) |
Thesis | Indo-European origins of the Celtic verb (1962) |
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Discipline | Linguist |
Sub-discipline | Historical linguistics |
Notable students | Joshua Katz |
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.[1]
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