Geoffrey Khan
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Geoffrey Allan Khan FBA (born 1 February 1958) is a British linguist and philologist of Semitic languages. He has held the post of Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge since 2012.[1] Considered one of the world's leading experts on Aramaic, he has published grammars for numerous Aramaic dialects [n 1] and he leads the North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Database Archived 8 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine.[2] His other research has included Biblical Hebrew and medieval Arabic documents.
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Born | (1958-02-01) 1 February 1958 (age 66) Middlesbrough, England |
Alma mater | School of Oriental and African Studies |
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Institutions | University of Cambridge |
Thesis | Extraposition and Pronominal Agreement in Semitic Languages (1984) |
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