| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Joseph H. Greenberg | | | Institution: | Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 1975 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 406. Linguistics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1915 | | | Death Date: | May 7, 2001 | | | | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Calvert Watkins | | | Institution: | University of California, Los Angeles & Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1975 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 406. Linguistics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1933 | | | Death Date: | March 20, 2013 | | | | | | |
Calvert Watkins was Victor S. Thomas Professor of Linguistics and the Classics, Emeritus at Harvard University and Professor-in-Residence, Department of Classics and Program in Indo-European Studies, at the University of California, Los Angeles at the time of his death on March 20, 2013 at the age of 80. He was interested in the linguistics and the poetics of all the earlier Indo-European languges and societies, particularly Greek, Latin and Italic, Celtic (especially Early Irish), Anatolian (especially Hittite and Luvian), Vedic Indic, and Old Iranian; historical linguistic theory and method; and Indo-European genetic comparative literature. His last book, which treats all these interests, is How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics (1995), which was awarded the Goodwin Prize in 1998. Dr. Watkins's other works include Indo-European Origins of the Celtic Verb I. The Sigmatic Aorist (1962); The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots (1985, revised 2000); and the "Historical linguistics and culture history," "Indo-European languages," and "Stylistic reconstruction" entries in the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. He also served as editor of Studies in Memory of Warren Cowgill (1987) and has written over 150 articles and reviews, 53 of which are reprinted in the two volumes of his Selected Writings, edited by Lisi Oliver (1994), ranging from "Indo-European metrics and Archaic Irish verse" to "The language of the Trojans". Dr. Watkins served as president of the Linguistic Society of America (1988) and as chair of Harvard University's Department of Linguistics for eleven years from 1985-91. He was an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy (1968), a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1973) and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (1987) and the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. | |
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