Jay Jasanoff earned his Ph.D. at Harvard, where he is Diebold Professor of Indo-European Linguistics and Philology and Chair of the Department of Linguistics. He has held teaching appointments at Berkeley (1969-70), Harvard (1970-78, 1998), and Cornell (1978-98). He is a historical linguist who specializes in the early Indo-European languages (Sanskrit, Greek, Hittite, Latin, etc.) and their prehistory. His recent book, Hittite and the Indo-European Verb (Oxford 2003), proposes the first major revision of the Proto-Indo-European verb system since the decipherment of Hittite nearly a century ago. Other recent works include “Stative *-- revisited,” Die Sprache (2004), which supplements an earlier book-length treatment of the same subject; and “Plus ça change. . . Lachmann's Law in Latin,” in Perspectives on Indo-European (Oxford 2004), which discusses a classic problem in the theory of sound change.

Problems in Proto-Indo-European Morphology: The Verb | LSA.119
TR 10:10-11:50
Three Week Course | First Session