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]

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Education

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

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]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "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.
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