Robert Fowkes

Robert Allen Fowkes (April 7, 1913 – November 18, 1998) was anAmerican linguist, specializing in Indo-European historical linguistics and philology.

Robert Fowkes was born in

Scandinavian, Sanskrit as well as German. He was visiting professor of Celtic languages

at Columbia University in 1947.

His major book was Gothic Etymological Studies (1949). His articles appeared in the Journals

WORD, Language

, Germanic Review, Armenian Digest, and foreign Linguistics journals.

Fowkes was president

Linguistic Circle of New York, where he was one of the first members, along with Roman Jakobson and Morris Swadesh. The Circle later became the International Linguistic Association

(ILA). He was a member of the advisory board of American Speech. He wrote "Welsh Naming Practices, with a Comparative Look at the Cornish" in the journal Names, in 1981.

At the time of his death

WORD (April 1980). On October 14, 1978, ILA

organized a colloquium in his honor. On April 25, 1999, NYU held a celebration in his memory.

Main publications

Gothic etymological studies. New York, 1949. New York University. Ottendorfer series of Germanic Monographs.[4]
The German lied and its poetry. (with Elaine Brody). New York, New York University Press, 1971.
Celtic linguistics. 1976. International Linguistic Association. London
Germanic Etymologies. 1945. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, XLVI.

Notes

^ Faculty page at NYU Linguistics
^ Official site of ILA
^ "Paid Notice: Deaths FOWKES, ROBERT ALLEN, PH.D. (Published 1998)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2018-06-14.
^ Graz Language Server, University of Graz, Austria.

References

Notes by Leonard R. N. Ashley, University of Binghamton Site of the American Name Society

[1] Faculty page at NYU Linguistics

[2] Official site of ILA

[3] "Paid Notice: Deaths FOWKES, ROBERT ALLEN, PH.D. (Published 1998)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2018-06-14.

[4] Graz Language Server, University of Graz, Austria.

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