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John Lowe (indologist)

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John Jeffrey Lowe is an indologist and an associate professor of sanskrit at the Wolfson College, University of Oxford.[1][2] He is also a faculty member at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford, specialising in Indo-Iranian historical philology and Sanskrit grammar.[3] He is currently in charge of and coordinating the LINGUINDIC (Linguistics from India: new ideas for modern linguistics from ancient India) project under the European Research Council, as its Principal Investigator, at Oxford.[4][5][6]

Education

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Lowe did his bachelors in arts (honours) in classics and oriental studies from the University of Oxford,[1] pursued post-graduation in linguistics and philology at Oxford, and received a DPhil from Oxford in 2012.[7] He began his career as a Leverhulme Early Career Researcher at the Faculty of Linguistics, Oxford.[1]

Books

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Lowe is coauthor of The Oxford Reference Guide to Lexical Functional Grammar, with Mary Dalrymple and Louise Mycock (Oxford University Press, 2019).[8] He is the author of Participles in Rigvedic Sanskrit: The Syntax and Semantics of Adjectival Verb Forms (Oxford University Press, 2015),[9] and of Transitive Nouns and Adjectives: Evidence from Early Indo-Aryan (Oxford University Press, 2017).[10]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "John Lowe | Wolfson College, Oxford". www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  2. ^ "John Lowe | Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics". www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  3. ^ "John J. Lowe". www.orinst.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  4. ^ "John Lowe awarded a five-year ERC Starting Grant". www.orinst.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  5. ^ "LINGUINDIC". www.linguindic.com. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  6. ^ "John Lowe | Uncovering Sanskrit Syntax". sanskritsyntax.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  7. ^ Lowe, John Jeffrey (2012). The syntax and semantics of tense-aspect stem participles in early Ṛgvedic Sanskrit (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  8. ^ Booth, Hannah (September 2021). "Review of The Oxford reference guide to Lexical Functional Grammar". Folia Linguistica. 55 (2): 597–601. doi:10.1515/flin-2021-2026. S2CID 238358654.
  9. ^ Reviews of Participles in Rigvedic Sanskrit:
  10. ^ Grestenberger, Laura (2020). "Review of Transitive Nouns and Adjectives" (PDF). Kratylos (in German). 65: 163–185. doi:10.29091/KRATYLOS/2020/1/10. S2CID 234939452.