john j. lowe

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Welcome to my website. I am Professor of Sanskrit and Linguistics in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford. I am also the Jill Hart Lecturer in Indo-Iranian Philology in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics. I was recently PI on the project LINGUINDIC, a five-year project funded by the ERC (2020–2026). I was also PI on the project Uncovering Sanskrit Syntax, a three-year Leverhulme Trust funded project (2019–2022). My research and teaching interests include: Sanskrit language and linguistics, the ancient Indian grammatical tradition, Indo-Iranian comparative and historical linguistics (Vedic Sanskrit, Prakrit, Avestan, Old Persian), syntactic theory, formal semantics, Indo-European comparative philology, Greek and Latin historical linguistics, Germanic comparative and historical linguistics.

I also have a page on Academia, and on ResearchGate. This website is likely to be the most up to date. My email address is of the form firstname.lastname@ames.ox.ac.uk.

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Last modified 30 October, 2026