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 ...

and an associate professor of sanskrit at the Wolfson College,

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

Sanskrit Sanskrit (; stem form ; nominal singular , ,) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in northwest South Asia after its predecessor languages had Trans-cultural ...

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

European Research Council The European Research Council (ERC) is a public body for funding of scientific and technological research conducted within the European Union (EU). Established by the European Commission in 2007, the ERC is composed of an independent Scientific ...

, as its Principal Investigator, at Oxford.

Education

Lowe did his bachelors in arts (honours) in

classics Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek literature, Ancient Greek and Roman literature and ...

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 studie ...

from the

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

DPhil A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

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 (born 9 March 1954) is a British linguist who is 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 senior member ...

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