Calvert Ward Watkins 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, served as professor-in-residence at UCLA.
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RoleAmerican linguist and philologist 1 Role
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Specialized in Indo-European poetics and the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European verbal morphology, with particular attention to Hittite and Anatolian.
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Calvert Ward Watkins (/ˈwɒtkɪnz/; March 13, 1933 - March 20, 2013) was an American linguist and philologist, known for his book How to Kill a Dragon.
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was an American linguist and philologist, known for his book How to Kill a Dragon
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