Education
Watters, of Portuguese Angeles, Washington, holds a Diploma from Prairie Bible Institute, Canada, 1967. Master of Arts Degree,, 1996; Doctor of Philosophy University of Oregon, 1998.
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David Watters
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He was adjunct faculty at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon and was a visiting scholar at Tribhuvan University from 2001 to 2006, Kathmandu, Nepal. Doctor Watters was considered an expert within his field, especially the Kham language, and was widely published and cited. Amongst other research in 2007 at the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at LaTrobe University in Australia, he was working on a grammar of Kaike language, comparative study of Kiranti languages, and Himalayan languages in general a previously undescribed Tibeto-Burman language.
Doctor David Watters died on May 18, 2009 of an unexpected heart attack.
He had recently been freed of bladder cancer when a blood clot formed in his leg and traveled to his heart. Doctor Watters had almost completed memoirs of his life, including his trials and adventures in the Himalayas, when he died.
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Watters was the Director of the Oregon Summer Institute of Linguistics for four years, and was a member of SIL International.
