W. Sidney Allen
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For the art critic who sometimes used the pseudonym 'Sidney Allen', see Sadakichi Hartmann.
William Sidney Allen, FBA (1918–2004),[1] was a British linguist and philologist, best known for his work on Indo-European phonology.
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William Sidney Allen | |
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![]() Photograph of Allen c.1982, from his obituary in the Proceedings of the British Academy | |
Born | (1918-03-18)18 March 1918 London |
Died | 22 April 2004(2004-04-22) (aged 86) |
Nationality | British |
Occupation | Academic |
Spouses | Aenea McCallum
(m. 1955; died 1996)Diana Stroud (m. 2002) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Thesis | Linguistic problems and their treatment in antiquity (1948) |
Doctoral advisor | A. J. Beattie |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classical Philology, Linguistics |
Sub-discipline | Historical linguistics, Sanskrit, Indo-European phonology. |
Institutions | School of Oriental & African Studies, London, Trinity College, Cambridge |
Notable works | Vox Latina (1965); Vox Graeca (1968) |
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