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</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Calvert Watkins</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1933-03-13</span>)</span>March 13, 1933<br><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="Pittsburgh" title="Pittsburgh">Pittsburgh</a>, <a href="Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">March 20, 2013<span style="display:none">(2013-03-20)</span> (aged 80)<br><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>, <a href="California" title="California">California</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Title</th><td class="infobox-data title">Victor S. Thomas Professor of Linguistics and Classics</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouses</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">
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<ul><li>Jane Williams Cushman (married 1961)</li>
<li><a href="Stephanie_W._Jamison" title="Stephanie W. Jamison">Stephanie Jamison</a> (married 1980)</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Guggenheim_Fellowship" title="Guggenheim Fellowship">Guggenheim Fellowship</a></li>
<li>Goodwin Award</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Academic background</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a> (<a href="Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a>, <a href="Doctor_of_Philosophy" title="Doctor of Philosophy">PhD</a>)<br><a href="%C3%89cole_pratique_des_hautes_%C3%A9tudes" title="École pratique des hautes études">École pratique des hautes études</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Thesis" title="Thesis">Thesis</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Indo-European origins of the Celtic verb</i> (1962)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Academic work</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Discipline</th><td class="infobox-data">Linguist</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Sub-discipline</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Historical_linguistics" title="Historical linguistics">Historical linguistics</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Notable students</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Andrew_Garrett_(linguist)" title="Andrew Garrett (linguist)">Andrew Garrett</a><br><a href="Mark_Hale" title="Mark Hale">Mark Hale</a><br><a href="Jay_Jasanoff" title="Jay Jasanoff">Jay Jasanoff</a><br><a href="Brian_Joseph" title="Brian Joseph">Brian Joseph</a><br><a href="Joshua_Katz_(classicist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Joshua Katz (classicist)">Joshua Katz</a><br>
<a href="Craig_Melchert" title="Craig Melchert">Craig Melchert</a><br><a href="Alan_Nussbaum" title="Alan Nussbaum">Alan Nussbaum</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Notable works</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="How_to_Kill_a_Dragon" title="How to Kill a Dragon">How to Kill a Dragon</a></i></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2">
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<p><b>Calvert Watkins</b> (/ˈwɒtkɪnz/; March 13, 1933 – March 20, 2013) was an American <a href="Linguistics" title="Linguistics">linguist</a> and <a href="Philology" title="Philology">philologist</a>, known for his book <i><a href="How_to_Kill_a_Dragon" title="How to Kill a Dragon">How to Kill a Dragon</a></i>. He was a professor of <a href="Linguistics" title="Linguistics">linguistics</a> and the <a href="Classics" title="Classics">classics</a> at <a href="Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a> and after retirement went to serve as professor-in-residence at <a href="UCLA" class="mw-redirect" title="UCLA">UCLA</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2></div>
<p>Calvert Watkins was born in <a href="Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania</a>, on March 13, 1933, to Ralph James Watkins, an <a href="Economist" title="Economist">economist</a><sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and government advisor,<sup id="cite_ref-:2_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Willye Ward, a <a href="Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a> teacher who translated the personal memoirs of former Mexican president Gen. <a href="Antonio_L%C3%B3pez_de_Santa_Anna" title="Antonio López de Santa Anna">Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Much of Watkins's childhood was spent in <a href="New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, and he graduated from <a href="Friends_Seminary" title="Friends Seminary">Friends Seminary</a> in <a href="Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a> before beginning his career at Harvard University.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Watkins's early exposure to Latin and Greek inspired him at the age of fifteen to decide to become an <a href="Indo-European_studies" title="Indo-European studies">Indo-Europeanist</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Watkins received his initial undergraduate degree from <a href="Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a> in 1954, graduating <a href="Latin_honors" title="Latin honors"><i>summa cum laude</i></a>,<sup id="cite_ref-:2_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> then earned a <a href="Doctor_of_Philosophy" title="Doctor of Philosophy">Ph.D</a> in linguistics from the university in 1959.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During his time at Harvard, Watkins also studied abroad at the <a href="%C3%89cole_pratique_des_hautes_%C3%A9tudes" title="École pratique des hautes études">École pratique des hautes études</a> in <a href="Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a>, France, from 1954 to 1955 as well as the <a href="Dublin_Institute_for_Advanced_Studies" title="Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies">Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies</a>, School of Celtic Studies from 1957 to 1958.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Harvard">Harvard</h3></div>
<p>In 1959, Watkins was initially appointed the position of instructor at <a href="Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a>. He later became assistant professor in 1960, associate professor with tenure in 1962, and full professor in 1966.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1989 Watkins was appointed to the position of Victor. S Thomas Professor of Linguistics and Classics.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Linguists influenced by Watkins during his tenure at Harvard include <a href="Ives_Goddard" title="Ives Goddard">Ives Goddard</a>, <a href="Jay_Jasanoff" title="Jay Jasanoff">Jay Jasanoff</a>, D. Gary Miller, <a href="Michael_Silverstein" title="Michael Silverstein">Michael Silverstein</a>, <a href="Alice_Harris_(linguist)" title="Alice Harris (linguist)">Alice Harris</a>, <a href="Craig_Melchert" title="Craig Melchert">H. Craig Melchert</a>, <a href="Alan_Nussbaum" title="Alan Nussbaum">Alan Nussbaum</a>, Brent Vine, <a href="Mark_Hale" title="Mark Hale">Mark Hale</a>, <a href="Andrew_Garrett_(linguist)" title="Andrew Garrett (linguist)">Andrew Garrett</a>, Joshua Katz and <a href="Benjamin_W._Fortson_IV" title="Benjamin W. Fortson IV">Benjamin Fortson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Watkins remained dedicated to the research and development of historical linguistics throughout his entire academic and professional career. In 1982 he was a founding member of the "East Coast Indo-European Conference" in which he participated in a large majority of its annual meetings.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="University_of_California,_Los_Angeles">University of California, Los Angeles</h3></div>
<p>Upon his retirement from Harvard in 2003, Watkins moved to Los Angeles, California, and began teaching at the University of California, Los Angeles, alongside his wife, <a href="Stephanie_W._Jamison" title="Stephanie W. Jamison">Stephanie Jamison</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Watkins continued to promote the importance of historical linguistics at UCLA by remaining active in the annual UCLA Indo-European Conference.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2013, the 25th annual conference was dedicated to the memory of Watkins.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_published_works">Early published works</h3></div>
<p>His doctoral dissertation at <a href="Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a>, <i>Indo-European Origins of the Celtic Verb I</i>. <i>The Sigmatic Aorist</i> (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1962), which deeply reflected the <a href="Structural_linguistics" title="Structural linguistics">structuralist</a> approach of <a href="Jerzy_Kury%C5%82owicz" title="Jerzy Kuryłowicz">Jerzy Kuryłowicz</a>, opened a fresh era of creative work in <a href="Celtic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Celtic language">Celtic</a> <a href="Comparative_linguistics" title="Comparative linguistics">comparative linguistics</a> and the study of the verbal system of <a href="Indo-European_languages" title="Indo-European languages">Indo-European languages</a>.
</p><p>On page 96 of <i>Indo-European Origins of the Celtic Verb</i> (1962), Watkins noted the following pattern in the history of the Celtic verb, as well as in Polish and Persian: “the development [...] or presence [...] of a zero ending in the 3sg., and the spread of this 3sg. form to other members of the paradigm." This became known in the field as <i>Watkins's Law.</i> <sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The "law" as it relates to Proto-Celtic was already observed in 1909 by <a href="Rudolf_Thurneysen" title="Rudolf Thurneysen">Rudolf Thurneysen</a> on page 422 (section 683) of his <i>Grammar of Old Irish</i>, but it was Watkins who noticed that the same pattern occurred in the histories of other languages.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Watkins, in a sense, completed his contribution to this area with his <i>Indogermanische Grammatik</i>, vol. 3, part 1: <i>Geschichte der indogermanischen Verbalflexion</i> (1969). Meanwhile, his work on Indo-European vocabulary and poetics yielded a large number of articles on (among others) <a href="Celtic_languages" title="Celtic languages">Celtic</a>, <a href="Anatolian_languages" title="Anatolian languages">Anatolian</a>, <a href="Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>, <a href="Italic_languages" title="Italic languages">Italic</a> and <a href="Indo-Iranian_languages" title="Indo-Iranian languages">Indo-Iranian</a> material, presented directly in his <i>Selected Writings</i> and indirectly in his book, <i>How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics</i> (Oxford University Press, 1995).
</p><p>He contributed his expertise on <a href="Indo-European_languages" title="Indo-European languages">Indo-European languages</a> to the first edition of <i><a href="The_American_Heritage_Dictionary_of_the_English_Language" title="The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language">The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language</a></i> and edited <i>The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots</i> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">
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</style><a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>0-618-08250-6</bdi>).<sup id="cite_ref-:3_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also pointed out that of all the <a href="Celtic_languages" title="Celtic languages">Celtic languages</a>, <a href="Old_Irish" title="Old Irish">Old Irish</a> is the closest match to the theorized <a href="Proto-Indo-European_language" title="Proto-Indo-European language">Proto-Indo European</a> mother tongue and that Old Irish represents an extraordinary ancient language whose structure can only be compared with that of <a href="Vedic_Sanskrit" title="Vedic Sanskrit">Vedic Sanskrit</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="How_to_Kill_a_Dragon:_Aspects_of_Indo-European_Poetics"><i>How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics</i></h3></div>
<p><i><a href="How_to_Kill_a_Dragon" title="How to Kill a Dragon">How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics</a></i> was published on November 16, 1995, through <a href="Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a> and attempted to establish a formulaic method of <a href="Comparative_(linguistics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Comparative (linguistics)">comparative linguistics</a> which exemplified the importance of the poetic formula in order to better trace the development of <a href="Indo-European_languages" title="Indo-European languages">Indo-European</a> languages by working backwards and identifying patterns from their mother language, Proto-Indo-European.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The book is divided into two main halves, the first of which acts as a definition and introduction to the study of Indo-European poetics which is expanded upon by implementing Watkins's idea of the "dragon-slaying myth" and defending this concept through a number of case studies involving languages connected by a common theme.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Watkins expands upon the "dragon-slaying myth" in part two of the text by offering new research into his proposed formula of "HERO SLAY SERPENT",<sup id="cite_ref-:1_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he also attempts to reconstruct an example of Proto-Indo-European through the comparative method of historical linguistics.
</p><p><i>Lingua Franca</i> reviewer Marc L'Heureux commented that Watkins also implements historical evidence to favor the development of language such as the relationship between the patron and the poet.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He further opined that through the ceremonious delivery from the poet, the word choices became preserved as historical evidence of the language in question. Thus the poet was not only a wielder of great power, according to Watkins as the patron's prestige was inherently tied to the poet's prowess, but a recorder of language that has allowed for research to be conducted in order to better understand the development of ancient languages.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_11-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p><i>How to Kill a Dragon</i> received favorable acclaim and is now considered to be a definitive text which transformed the study of Indo-European poetics.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>How to Kill a Dragon</i> earned Watkins the 1998 Goodwin Award for Classical Studies.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Legacy_and_awards">Legacy and awards</h3></div>
<ul><li>Honorary Member of the <a href="Royal_Irish_Academy" title="Royal Irish Academy">Royal Irish Academy</a> (1968)<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>Fellow of the <a href="American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a> (1973)<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>Member of the <a href="American_Philosophical_Society" title="American Philosophical Society">American Philosophical Society</a> (1975)<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>Senior Fellowship for Independent Study and Research from the <a href="National_Endowment_for_the_Humanities" title="National Endowment for the Humanities">National Endowment for the Humanities</a> (1984–85) <sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>Corresponding Fellow of the <a href="British_Academy" title="British Academy">British Academy</a> (1987)<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Acad%C3%A9mie_des_Inscriptions_et_Belles-Lettres" title="Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres">Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres</a>, Correspondant Etranger (1990)<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Guggenheim_Fellowships" class="mw-redirect" title="Guggenheim Fellowships">Guggenheim Fellowships</a> for demonstration of exceptional capacity for productive scholarship and exceptional creative ability in the arts in the field of linguistics (1991)<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>Goodwin Award for Classical Studies for <i>How to Kill a Dragon</i> (1998)<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>President of the <a href="Linguistic_Society_of_America" title="Linguistic Society of America">Linguistic Society of America</a> in 1988<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>Associé Étranger, Membre de l'Institut (1999)<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2></div>
<p>Calvert Watkins died in his sleep at the age of 80 in <a href="Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>, California, on March 20, 2013. He was the Distinguished Professor in Residence of the Department of Classics and the Program in Indo-European Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he had moved in 2003 after retiring from Harvard University as Victor S. Thomas Professor of Linguistics and the Classics.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Published_works">Published works</h2></div>
<ul><li>"Review of Kenneth Jackson, <i>Language and History in Early Britain: A Chronological Survey of the Britannic Languages, First to Twelfth Century A.D.," Language</i> 30 (1954) 513–18; <i> </i>P. Guiraud, <i>Bibliographie critique de la statistique linguistique</i> rev. & completed by D. Houchin, J. Puhvel & Watkins under the direction of J. Whatmough (Utrecht, 1954). REVS: BSL L 1954,2 44–46 Cohen; Emerita XXIV 1956 187 Tovar</li>
<li>"The Phonemics of Gaulish: The Dialect of Narbonensis," <i>Language</i> 31 (1955) 9–19</li>
<li>"Preliminaries to a Historical and Comparative Analysis of the Syntax of the Old Irish Verb," <i>Celtica</i> 6 (1963) 1–49</li>
<li>"Indo-European Metrics and Archaic Irish Verse," <i>Celtica</i> 6 (1963) 194–249; "Lat. <i>nox</i>, by night. A Problem in Syntactic Reconstruction," <i>Symbolae linguisticae in honorem J. Kuryłowicz</i>, ed. A. Heinz (Wrocław, 1965) 351–358</li>
<li>"An Indo-European Construction in Greek and Latin," <i>HSCP</i> 71 (1966) 115–119; J. Kuryłowicz, <i>Indogermanische Grammatik, III, 1. Teil : Formenlehre : Geschichte der indogermanischen Verbalflexion</i> by Watkins (Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1969) REV. Paideia XXX 1975 382–386 Pisani; WZHalle XXI 1972, 1 99–102 Barschel | DLZ XCII 1971 849–851 Sternemann | Language XLVIII 1972 687–695 Wyatt</li>
<li>"The Indo-European Origin of English," <i>The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language</i> New York: American Heritage and Houghton Mifflin, 1969) xix-xx</li>
<li>"Indo-European and the Indo Europeans," ibid., 1496–502; "Indo-European Roots," ibid., 1505–50</li>
<li>"A Latin-Hittite Etymology," <i>Language</i> 45 (1969) 235–242</li>
<li>"A Further Remark of Lachmann's Law," <i>HSCP</i> 74 (1970) 55–65</li>
<li>"On the Family of arceō, ἀρκέω, and Hittite h⌣ark-," <i>HSCP</i> 74 (1970) 67–74</li>
<li>"An Indo-European Agricultural Term, Latin ador, Hittite h⌣at-," <i>HSCP</i> 77 (1973) 187–194</li>
<li>"Etyma Enniana," <i>HSC</i>P 77 (1973) 195–206</li>
<li>"Latin suppus," <i>JIES</i> 1 (1973) 394–399</li>
<li>"I.-E. Star," <i>Sprache</i> 20 (1974) 10–14</li>
<li>"God," <i>Antiquitates Indogermanicae. Studien zur indogermanischen Altertumskunde und zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte der indogermanischen Völker. Gedenkschrift für Hermann Guentert zur 25. Wiederkehr seines Todestages am 23. April 1973</i>, ed. M. Mayrhofer, W. Meid, B. Schlerath & R. Schmitt (Innsbruck, 1974) 101–110</li>
<li>"La famille indo-européenne de grec ὄρχις. Linguistique, poétique et mythologie," <i>BSL</i> 70 (1975) 11–26</li>
<li>"Latin ador, Hittite hat- Again. Addenda to <i>HSCP</i> LXXVII 187–193," <i>HSCP</i> 79 (1975) 181–187; "Latin iouiste et le vocabulaire religieux indo-européen," <i>Mélanges offerts à E. Benveniste</i> (Paris, 1975) 527–534; "La désignation indo-européenne du tabou," <i>Langue, discours, société. Pour Émile Benveniste</i> ed. J. Kristeva, J.C. Milner, & N. Ruwet (Paris, 1975) 208–214</li>
<li>"Towards Proto-Indo-European Syntax: Problems and Pseudo-Problems," <i>Chicago Linguistic Society (Parasession on diachronic syntax)</i> 12.2 (1976) 305–26</li>
<li>"Observations on the Nestor's Cup Inscription," <i>HSCP</i> 80 (1976) 25–40</li>
<li>"Syntax and Metrics in the Dipylon Vase Inscription," <i>Studies in Greek, Italic, and Indo-European Linguistics Offered to Leonard R. Palmer on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday June 5, 1976</i>, ed. Davies A. Morpurgo & W. Meid (Innsbruck, 1976) 431–441</li>
<li>"À propos de μῆνις," <i>BSL</i> 72, 1 (1977) 187–209; "ἀνόστεος ὁν πόδα τένδει," <i>Étrennes de septantaine. Travaux de linguistique et de grammaire comparée offerts à Michel Lejeune</i> (Paris, 1978) 231–235</li>
<li>"La désignation indo-européenne du tabou," <i>Langue, discours, société. Pour Émile Benveniste</i> ed. J. Kristeva, J.C. Milner, & N. Ruwet (Paris, 1975) 208–214</li>
<li>"Let Us Now Praise Famous Grains," <i>PAPS</i> 122 (1978) 9–17; "A Greco-Hittite Etymology," <i>Serta Indogermanica. Festschrift für Günter Neumann zum 60. Geburtstag</i>, ed. J. Tischler (Innsbruck, 1982) 455–457</li>
<li>"The Language of the Trojans," <i>Troy and the Trojan War. A Symposium Held at Bryn Mawr College, October, 1984</i>, ed. M.T. Mellink (Bryn Mawr, PA, 1986) 45–62</li>
<li>"The Name of Meleager," <i>O-o-pe-ro-si. Festschrift für Ernst Risch zum 75. Geburtsta</i>g, ed. A. Etter (Berlin, 1986) 320–328</li>
<li>"Questions linguistiques de poétique, de mythologie et de pré-droit en indo-européen," <i>LALIES</i> 5 (1987) 3–29</li>
<li>"'In the Interstices of Procedure.' Indo-European Legal Language and Comparative Law," <i>Studien zum indogermanischen Wortschatz, ed. Wolfgang Meid (Innsbruck, 1987) 305–314; Studies in Memory of Warren Cowgill (1929–1985). Papers from the Fourth East Coast Indo-European Conference, Cornell University, June 6–9, 1986</i> (ed.) (Berlin & New York, 1987) REVS.: Kratylos XXXV 1990 41–48 Rix; ILing XII 1987–88 188 R. Gusmani</li>
<li>"New Parameters in Historical Linguistics, Philology, and Culture History," <i>Language</i> 65 (1989) 783–99</li>
<li>"Le dragon hittite Illuyankas et le géant grec Typhôeus," <i>CRAI</i> (1992) 319–330; <i>How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics</i> (Oxford, 1995) REVS: CJ 1997–1998 92 (4): 417–422 Dunkel; JAOS 1997 117 (2): 397–398 Klein; Language 1997 73 (3): 637–641 Justus; CO 1996–1997 74 (3): 123 Klein; CW 1998–1999 92 (2): 175–176 Kelly; BSL 1998 93 (2): 116–130 Bader; Kratylos 2000 45: 36–46 Schlerath; CR 2000 N. S. 50 (1): 101–103 Konstan; EMC 2000 N. S. 19 (3): 399–406 Bubenik; IF 2001 106 : 282–290 Keydana</li>
<li>"Greece in Italy outside Rome," <i>HSCP</i> 97 (1995) 35–50</li>
<li>"Homer and Hittite Revisited," <i>Style and Tradition: Studies in Honor of Wendell Clausen</i>, ed. Peter E. Knox and Clive Foss (Stuttgart, 1998) 201–211</li>
<li><i>The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots</i> (revised and ed.), 2nd ed. (Boston, 2000)</li>
<li>"A Distant Anatolian Echo in Pindar: the Origin of the Aegis Again," <i>HSCP</i> 100 (2000) 1–14; "L'Anatolie et la Grèce : résonances culturelles, linguistiques et poétiques," <i>CRAI</i> (2000) 1143–1158</li>
<li>"À la suite des perspectives tracées par Michel Lejeune: aspects du grec et du celtique," <i>CRAI</i> (2001) 213–223</li>
<li>"An Indo-European Linguistic Area and Its Characteristics: Ancient Anatolia. Areal Diffusion as a Challenge to the Comparative Method? in <i>Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance: Problems in Comparative Linguistics</i> ed. Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald & R.M.W. Dixon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001) 44–63</li>
<li>"The Golden Bowl: Thoughts on the New Sappho and its Asianic Background," <i>ClAnt</i> 26,2 (2007) 305–325</li>
<li>"The Erbessos Blues and Other Tales of the Semantics of Case and the Semantics of Love among the Western Greeks," <i>La langue poétique indo-européenne : actes du colloque de travail de la Société des études indo-européennes (Indogermanische Gesellschaft, Society for Indo-European studies), Paris, 22–24 octobre 2003,</i> ed. Georges-Jean Pinault and Daniel Petit (Leuven, 2006) 517–521</li>
<li>"Hipponactea quaedam," <i>Hesperos: Studies in Ancient Greek Poetry Presented to M. L. West on His Seventieth Birthday</i>, ed. Patrick J. Finglass, Christopher Collard, and Nicholas J. Richardson (Oxford, 2007) 118–125.</li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFJasanoffJoseph2015" class="citation journal cs1">Jasanoff, Jay H.; Joseph, Brian D. (2015-03-20). "Calvert Ward Watkins". <i>Language</i>. <b>91</b> (1): <span class="nowrap">245–</span>252. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1353%2Flan.2015.0011">10.1353/lan.2015.0011</a>. <a href="ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1535-0665">1535-0665</a>. <a href="S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:143995815">143995815</a>.</cite></span>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dbcs.rutgers.edu/all-scholars/9203-watkins-calvert-ward">Calvert Watkins</a> at the Database of Classical Scholars</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://static.scribd.com/docs/km058hvpku1jx.pdf">Essay by Calvert Watkins on Indo-European, from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language</a></li>
<li><i>How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Ri4sbTiMKN4C&q=intitle:How+intitle:to+intitle:kill+intitle:a+intitle:dragon">limited preview</a></li></ul>
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