David E. Watters
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David E. Watters, Ph.D., is a Tibeto-Burman linguist and institute folklorist. He is adjunct faculty at the University of Oregon,[1] Eugene, Oregon and is currently a visiting scholar at Tribhuvan University,[2] Kathmandu, Nepal. Watters was the Director of the Oregon Summer Institute of Linguistics for four years, and is a member of SIL International.[3] He is considered an expert within his field, especially the Kham language, and is widely published and cited. Amongst other research in 2007 at the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at LaTrobe University in Australia, he is working on a grammar of Kaike language, comparative study of Kiranti languages, and Himalayan languages in general[4] a previously undescribed Tibeto-Burman language.
Watters, of Springfield, Oregon, holds a Diploma from Prairie Bible Institute, Canada, 1967; M.A. Degree, University of Oregon, 1996; Ph.D. University of Oregon, 1998.[5]
[edit] Awards
- 1997, UO Doctoral Research Fellowships[6]
[edit] References
- ^ LINGUIST List 13.165: Grammar
- ^ http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:hzRDV84LsJIJ:www.latrobe.edu.au/uninews/assets/downloads/190307.pdf+%22david+E.+watters%22+university&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=19&gl=us
- ^ http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/12450/frontmatter/9780521812450_frontmatter.pdf
- ^ http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:1dGhpuZiX3wJ:https://www.latrobe.edu.au/rclt/Newsletters/2007.pdf+%22david+watters%22+%22university+of+oregon%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=17&gl=us
- ^ http://www.oregonsil.org/faculty.htm
- ^ University of Oregon Press Releases
