John Jeffrey Lowe is an

indologist Indology, also known as South Asian studies, is the academic study of the history and cultures, languages, and literature of the Indian subcontinent, and as such is a subset of Asian studies. The term ''Indology'' (in German, ''Indologie'') is o ...

and an associate professor of sanskrit at the Wolfson College,

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. He is also a faculty member at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford, specialising in Indo-Iranian historical philology and

Sanskrit Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late ...

grammar. He is currently in charge of and coordinating the LINGUINDIC (Linguistics from India: new ideas for modern linguistics from ancient India) project under the

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, as its

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, at Oxford.

Education

Lowe did his bachelors in arts (honours) in

classics Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

and

oriental studies Oriental studies is the academic field that studies Near Eastern and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages, peoples, history and archaeology. In recent years, the subject has often been turned into the newer terms of Middle Eastern studi ...

from the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

, pursued post-graduation in linguistics and philology at Oxford, and received a

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from Oxford in 2012. He began his career as a Leverhulme Early Career Researcher at the Faculty of Linguistics, Oxford.

Books

Lowe is coauthor of ''The Oxford Reference Guide to Lexical Functional Grammar'', with

Mary Dalrymple Mary Dalrymple, Fellow of the British Academy, FBA (born March 9, 1954) is a professor of syntax at Oxford University. At Oxford, she is a fellow of Linacre College. Prior to that she was a lecturer in linguistics at King's College London, a sen ...

and Louise Mycock (Oxford University Press, 2019). He is the author of ''Participles in Rigvedic Sanskrit: The Syntax and Semantics of Adjectival Verb Forms'' (Oxford University Press, 2015), and of ''Transitive Nouns and Adjectives: Evidence from Early Indo-Aryan'' (Oxford University Press, 2017).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lowe, John Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of the University of Oxford English Indologists British Sanskrit scholars Academics of the University of Oxford Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Fellows of Wolfson College, Oxford