Geoffrey Khan

Professor
Geoffrey Khan
FBA
Born (1958-02-01) 1 February 1958 (age 66)
Middlesbrough, England
Alma materSchool of Oriental and African Studies
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
Thesis Extraposition and Pronominal Agreement in Semitic Languages  (1984)

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.

  1. ^ "Geoffrey Allan KAHN". Debretts. Archived from the original on 15 February 2013. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 8 February 2018. Retrieved 7 February 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link).Sabar, Ariel (February 2013). "How to Save a Dying Language". Smithsonian Magazine. Archived from the original on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2013.


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