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David E. Watters, Ph.D. (1944-18 May 2009) was an American educator who specialized in Tibeto-Burman languages and folklore.

Education

Watters was originally from Daggett, California.[1] He later lived in Port Angeles, Washington. He received a Diploma from Prairie Bible Institute, Canada (1967), an MA degree from the University of Oregon (1996), and a PhD degree also from UO (1998).[2]

Career

Watters' university career began as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Oregon,[3] in Eugene. He was also a visiting scholar at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, Nepal, from 2001 to 2006.[4]

Watters was the Director of the Oregon Summer Institute of Linguistics for four years, and was a member of SIL International.[5] Watters was considered an expert within his field, especially the Kham language, and was widely published and cited. Amongst other research in 2007 at the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at LaTrobe University in Australia, he was working on a grammar of Kaike language, comparative study of Kiranti languages, and Himalayan languages in general,[6] as well as a previously undescribed Tibeto-Burman language.

Death

Watters died on 18 May 2009, of a heart attack. He had recently overcome a bladder cancer when a blood clot formed in his leg after an operation, and it traveled to his heart.[1] He was survived by his wife, Nancy, and two sons, Stephen and Daniel who are also researching Tibeto-Burman languages. Watters had almost completed an autobiography when he died.

Awards

  • University of Oregon, Doctoral Research Fellowship[7] - 1997

References

  1. ^ a b David Eugene Watters (1944-2009). In Memoriam (SIL International)
  2. ^ [1] Archived 7 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ LINGUIST List 13.165: Grammar
  4. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 September 2007. Retrieved 2013-08-17. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ Cambridge, Assets
  6. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 September 2008. Retrieved 2007-09-12. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ^ University of Oregon Press Releases - Archived 1999-10-06 at the Wayback Machine
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