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Professor Calvert Watkins FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
1987
Year of birth
1933
Year of death
2013
Honours
FBA
Sections
Linguistics and Philology

Current post

Professor-in-residence, Classics and Indo-European, University of California at Los Angeles, and Victor S Thomas Professor of Linguistics and the Classics, Emeritus, Harvard University

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Morphology, especially unusual or theoretically challenging inflectional systems. West Nilotic languages, Seri (isolate), and Slavic languages

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The psychology of language, particularly language production, comprehension, dialogue, and bilingualism

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Professor Graham Furniss FBA

Oral and written literatures of Africa; orality, performance and genre in the popular cultures of West Africa with particular reference to Hausa-speaking regions of Nigeria and Niger

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