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Geoffrey Khan

British linguist

Geoffrey Allan Khan FBA (born 1 February 1958) is a British linguist who has held the post of Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge since 2012. He has published grammars for the Aramaic dialects of Barwari, Qaraqosh, Erbil, Sulaymaniyah and Halabja in Iraq; of Urmia and Sanandaj in Iran; and leads the North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Database.

Contents

  • 1 Biography
  • 2 Honours
  • 3 Works
  • 4 References

Biography

Khan was born and raised in Middlesbrough in North Yorkshire. His mother was English whereas his father was Indian of Iranian descent. His paternal grandfather was an Ismaili Muslim who married a Catholic, and Geoffrey's father went to a Jesuit school in Bombay. One of his paternal great-grandmothers was the daughter of a Welsh Wesleyan missionary, and Khan also has Native American ancestry. His parents separated when he was quite young and he was raised by his mother and grandmother. He went to a "rough" comprehensive school where he suffered from racial abuse, and "took refuge in learning languages".

In 1984, he gained his Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies with a thesis en*led Extraposition and Pronominal Agreement in Semitic Languages. He became a researcher at the Cambridge University Library (1983-1993), working on the Cairo Genizah m*cripts. 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.

Honours

  • Fellow of the British Academy, 1998
  • Honorary Fellow of the Academy of the Hebrew Language, 2011.
  • Lidzbarski Gold Medal for Semitic philology, 2004.

Works

  • Khan, Geoffrey (2002). The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Qaraqosh. Leiden-Boston: Brill.
  • Khan, Geoffrey (2007). "Aramaic in the Medieval and Modern Periods" (PDF). Languages of Iraq: Ancient and Modern. Cambridge: The British School of Archaeology in Iraq. pp.:95–114.
  • Khan, Geoffrey (2007). "The North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Dialects". Journal of Semitic Studies. 52 (1): 1–20.
  • Khan, Geoffrey (2007). "Remarks on the Historical Background of the Modern *yrian Language". Journal of *yrian Academic Studies. 21 (1): 1–6.
  • Khan, Geoffrey (2008). The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Barwar: Grammar. Vol.:1. Leiden-Boston: Brill.
  • Khan, Geoffrey (2008). "The Expression of Definiteness in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Dialects". Aramaic in Its Historical and Linguistic Setting. Wiesbaden: Harr*owitz Verlag. pp.:287–304.
  • Khan, Geoffrey (2009). "The Neo-Aramaic Dialects of Iraq". The Christian Heritage of Iraq. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. pp.:226–236.
  • Khan, Geoffrey (2012). "North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic". The Semitic Languages: An International Handbook. Berlin-Boston: Walter de Gruyter. pp.:708–724.
  • Khan, Geoffrey (2012). "Remarks on the Dialects of the *yrians in North-Western Iran". Journal of *yrian Academic Studies. 26 (1–2): 1–14.
  • Khan, Geoffrey (2012). "The Language of the Modern *yrians: The North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Dialect Group". The *yrian Heritage: Threads of Continuity and Influence. Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet. pp.:173–199.
  • Khan, Geoffrey (2014). "Phonological Emphasis in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic". Carmillim, for the Study of Hebrew and Related Languages. 10 (2): 15–27.
  • Khan, Geoffrey (2015). "Domains of Emphasis, Syllable Structure and Morphological Boundaries in the Christian Urmi Dialect of Neo-Aramaic". Neo-Aramaic and its Linguistic Context. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. pp.:145–161.
  • Khan, Geoffrey (2015). "Causative Constructions in Neo-Aramaic (Christian Urmi Dialect)". Arabic and Semitic Linguistics Contextualized. Wiesbaden: Harr*owitz Verlag. pp.:506–530.
  • Khan, Geoffrey (2016). The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of the *yrian Christians of Urmi. Vol.:1. Leiden-Boston: Brill.
  • Khan, Geoffrey (2016). The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of the *yrian Christians of Urmi. Vol.:2. Leiden-Boston: Brill.
  • Khan, Geoffrey (2016). The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of the *yrian Christians of Urmi. Vol.:3. Leiden-Boston: Brill.
  • Khan, Geoffrey (2016). The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of the *yrian Christians of Urmi. Vol.:4. Leiden-Boston: Brill.
  • Khan, Geoffrey (2016). "Remarks on Roots and Stems in the Christian Urmi Dialect of Neo-Aramaic". Babel und Bibel 9: Proceedings of the 6th Biennial Meeting of the International *ociation for Comparative Semitics and Other Studies. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. pp.:105–118.
  • Khan, Geoffrey (2018). "Sound Symbolism in Neo-Aramaic". Near Eastern and Arabian Essays: Studies in Honour of John F. Healey. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp.:197–214.
  • Khan, Geoffrey (2018). "Remarks on the Historical Development and Syntax of the Copula in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Dialects". Aramaic Studies. 16 (2): 234–269.
  • Khan, Geoffrey (2018). "Jewish Neo-Aramaic in Kurdistan and Iran". Languages in Jewish Communities, Past and Present. Berlin-Boston: Walter de Gruyter. pp.:9–34.
  • Khan, Geoffrey (2019). "The Neo-Aramaic Dialects of Eastern Anatolia and Northwestern Iran". The Languages and Linguistics of Western Asia: An Areal Perspective. Berlin-Boston: Walter de Gruyter. pp.:190–236.
  • Khan, Geoffrey (2019). "The Neo-Aramaic Dialects of Northern Iraq". The Languages and Linguistics of Western Asia: An Areal Perspective. Berlin-Boston: Walter de Gruyter. pp.:305–353.
  • Khan, Geoffrey (2019). "The Neo-Aramaic Dialects of Western Iran". The Languages and Linguistics of Western Asia: An Areal Perspective. Berlin-Boston: Walter de Gruyter. pp.:481–532.
  • Khan, Geoffrey (2019). "The Neo-Aramaic Dialects and Their Historical Background". The Syriac World. London: Routledge. pp.:266–289.

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