Name Geoffrey Khan | ||
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Born February 1, 1958 (age 66)
Cheltenham, United Kingdom ( 1958-02-01 ) Institutions University of Cambridge Alma mater School of Oriental and African Studies Thesis Extraposition and Pronominal Agreement in Semitic Languages (1984) Education SOAS, University of London Books Arabic Documents from Earl, neo‑Aramaic dialect of Barwar, The Jewish Neo‑Aramaic Dialect of, A Grammar of Neo‑Aramaic, A Short Introduction to the Tib | ||
Lecture of prof geoffrey khan may 10 2012
Geoffrey Allan Khan FBA, (b. 1 February 1958, Cheltenham, United Kingdom) is the Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge, a post he has held since 2012. He has published grammars for the Aramaic dialects of Barwari, Qaraqosh, Erbil, Sulaymaniyah and Halabja in Iraq, and Urmia and Sanandaj in Iran and leads the North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Database.
Contents
- Lecture of prof geoffrey khan may 10 2012
- Geoffrey khan in san jose september 21 2014
- Biography
- Honours
- References
Geoffrey khan in san jose september 21 2014
Biography
Khan was born in Cheltenham and went to school in Middlesbrough. In 1984, he gained his Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies with a thesis entitled Extraposition and Pronominal Agreement in Semitic Languages. He became a researcher at the Cambridge University Library (1983-1993), working on the Cairo Genizah manuscripts. He then joined the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies in 1993. In 2002, he was appointed Professor of Semitic Philology in Cambridge.
His main area of research is in linguistics studies of Hebrew and Aramaic while the focus of his Aramaic research is on North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Dialects.
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