[INDOLOGY] Calvert Watkins (13 March 1933 - 21 March 2013)

[asko.parpola at helsinki.fi]

Dear Colleagues,

I have received from Craig Melchert the sad news that Calvert Watkins  
passed away in sleep on the 21st of March 2013 at home in Los Angeles.

We have lost a scholar of giant achievements in Indo-European studies  
and a gentle human being. Calvert Watkins took his Ph.D. in  
linguistics in 1959 at Harvard University, where he was long Professor  
of Indo-European Studies. In the following short bibliography I list  
his principal works and the 65th birthday Festschrift published by his  
students.

With regards, Asko Parpola

Watkins, Calvert 1969. Indogermanische Grammatik, III: Formenlehre, 1:  
Geschichte der indogermanischen Verbalflexion. Heidelberg: Carl Winter  
Universitätsverlag. 248 pp.

Watkins, Calvert 1985. The American Heritage dictionary of  
Indo-European roots. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
2nd edition, revised and edited, 2000. xli, 149 pp.

Watkins, Calvert (ed.) 1987. Studies in memory of Warren Cowgill   
(1929-1985). Papers from the fourth East Coast Indo-European  
conference, Cornell University, June 6-9, 1985. (Untersuchungen zur  
indogermanischen Sprach- und Kulturwissensdchaft, 3.) Berlin: Walter  
de Gruyter.

Watkins, Calvert 1994. Selected writings, edited by Lisi Oliver. Vol.  
I-II. (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, 80.) Innsbruck.  
772 pp.

Watkins, Calvert 1995. How to kill a dragon: Aspects of Indo-European  
poetics. New York: Oxford University Press. xiii, 613 pp.

Watkins, Calvert 2008. Selected writings, edited by Lisi Oliver. Vol.  
III: Publications 1992-2008. (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur  
Sprachwissenschaft, 129.) Innsbruck. xi, 324 pp.

Jasanoff, Jay, H. Craig Melchert and Lisi Oliver (eds.) 1998. Mír  
curad: Studies in honor of Calvert Watkins. (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur  
Sprachwissenschaft, 92.) Innsbruck. xvii, 715 pp., 1 portrait.