Jay Jasanoff | |
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Born | Jay Harold Jasanoff June 12, 1942 |
Title | Diebold Professor of Indo-European Linguistics and Philology |
Spouse | Sheila Jasanoff |
Children | 2, including Maya |
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Academic background | |
Education | Harvard University (BA, PhD) |
Doctoral advisor | Calvert Watkins |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Linguistics |
Sub-discipline | Indo-European, Historical linguistics |
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Notable students | |
Notable works | Hittite and Indo-European Verb; The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent |
Notable ideas | H₂e-conjugation theory |
Website | http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~jasanoff/ |
Jay Harold Jasanoff (/ˈdʒæzənɒf/ or /ˈdʒæsənɒf/) is an American linguist and Indo-Europeanist, best known for his h2e-conjugation theory of the Proto-Indo-European verbal system. He teaches Indo-European linguistics and historical linguistics at Harvard University.