Calvert Watkins (1933–2013)
Autor(a) de The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
About the Author
Obras de Calvert Watkins
Associated Works
Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance: Problems in Comparative Linguistics (2001) — Contribuinte — 17 cópias
Recent developments in Hittite archaeology and history : papers in memory of Hans G. Güterbock (2002) — Contribuinte — 9 cópias
Anatolian interfaces : Hittites, Greeks, and their neighbours : proceedings of an International Conference on… (2008) — Contribuinte — 9 cópias
Hittite Studies in Honor of Harry A. Hoffner, Jr: On the Occasion of His 65th Birthday (2003) — Contribuinte — 8 cópias
Ancient Indo-European dialects: Proceedings of the Conference on Indo-European Linguistics held at the University of… (1966) — Contribuinte — 8 cópias
Proto Indo European: The Archaeology of a Linguistic Problem : Studies in Honor of Marija Gimbutas (1987) — Contribuinte — 6 cópias
Hesperos: Studies in Ancient Greek Poetry Presented to M. L. West on his Seventieth Birthday (2007) — Contribuinte — 6 cópias
Indo-European Perspectives: Studies in Honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies (2004) — Contribuinte — 6 cópias
Bono Homini Donum : Essays in Historical Linguistics in Memory of J. Alexander Kerns (1981) — Contribuinte — 6 cópias
Reconstructing Languages and Cultures (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs) (1992) — Contribuinte — 4 cópias
Ex Anatolia lux : Anatolian and Indo-European studies in honor of H. Craig Melchert on the occasion of his sixty-fifth… (2010) — Contribuinte — 3 cópias
Verba Docenti: Studies in Historical and Indo-European Linguistics Presented to Jay H. Jasanoff (2007) — Contribuinte — 3 cópias
Classical antiquity (vol 26 no 2) — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
La langue poétique Indo-Européenne: actes du colloque de travail de la Société des Études Indo-Européennes… (2006) — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Watkins, Calvert Ward
- Data de nascimento
- 1933-03-13
- Data de falecimento
- 2013-03-20
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Locais de residência
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Educação
- Harvard College (BA)
Harvard University (PhD) - Ocupação
- linguist (historical)
- Organizações
- Harvard University (Professor of Linguistics and the Classics, 1969-2003)
Membros
Resenhas
How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics de Calvert Watkins
Well, I probably couldn't kill a dragon after reading, but I probably could write a poem about killing a dragon in the correct form. A dense book - I'm sure it would've helped if my knowledge of Indo-European languages were broader, but with only three (English, Old Norse and Latin) under my belt I feel like I must've missed a lot. Greek would've helped. Not a book for the linguistically faint of heart.
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Rev. and expanded version of the Appendix to the American Heritage Dictionary (1969).
A careful , painstaking and thoroughgoing look at reconstructed Indo-European poetics (and, to some degree, culture) based on the formulaic level rather than the simple word level. Watkins deals with poetic technique as well as themes, but his primary focus is on one major theme: that of the hero / god who slays a serpent (where the core of the formula is the reconstructed PIE root *gyhen). Along the way he makes a strong argument for a particular role of the poet in PIE society: part-bard, part-magician, certainly more than a tale-teller. Well worth reading, but especially rewarding if one has enough Greek background to dive into the texts he cites (anyone who has a grasp of Sanskrit, Avestan, Hittite, and Celtic, will have an even more rewarding time, but this is less likely; he also deals with Germanic examples, principally Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse, but they are less prominent).… (mais)
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