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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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