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'Calvert Watkins' is a professor Emeritus of linguistics and the classics at Harvard University and professor-in-residence at UCLA.
His doctoral dissertation, ''Indo-European Origins of the Celtic Verb I''. ''The Sigmatic Aorist'' (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1962), which deeply reflected the structuralist approach of Jerzy Kuryłowicz, opened a fresh era of creative work in Celtic comparative linguistics and the study of the verbal system of Indo-European languages.
Watkins, in a sense, completed his contribution to this area with his ''Indogermanische Grammatik III/1: Geschichte der Indogermanischen Verbalflexion'' (1969). Meanwhile, his work on Indo-European vocabulary and poetics yielded a large number of articles on (among others) Celtic, Anatolian, Greek, Italic and Indo-Iranian material, presented most thoroughly in his latest book, ''How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics'' (Oxford University Press, 1995).
He contributed his expertise on Indo-European languages to the first edition of ''The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'' and edited ''The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots'' (ISBN 0-618-08250-6).

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★ Essay by Calvert Watkins on Indo-European, from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language