James Clackson

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James Clackson is a British linguist and Indo-Europeanist.

He works as a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, and is also a Fellow and Director of Studies, Jesus College at Cambridge.^[1]

He studied at Cambridge under Robert Coleman, and his Ph.D. thesis served as a basis for his 1994 book The Linguistic Relationship between Armenian and Greek. His research interest include ancient Languages of the Italian peninsula (Latin, Sabellian, Etruscan), Indo-European linguistics, Latin linguistics, Greek linguistics and Armenian.

He was married to the late Sarah Clackson (1965 - 2003) whose memorial is in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground., Cambridge; he is the current Secretary of the Friends of the Ascension Parish Burial Ground.

Books

The Linguistic Relationship between Armenian and Greek (Oxford, 1994)
Indo-European Word Formation (co-edited with Birgit Anette Olson, Copenhagen, 2004)
The Blackwell History of the Latin Language (with Geoff Horrocks, Oxford, 2007)
Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2007)

References

↑ "Dr James Clackson". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 4 February 2011.

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 61705722 LCCN: n94054621 ISNI: 0000 0001 1655 5236 BNF: cb13526994z

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