Jay H. Jasanoff

Jay H. Jasanoff

Diebold Professor of Indo-European Linguistics and Philology, Department of Linguistics
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Professor Jasanoff received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, and is the Diebold Professor of Indo-European Linguistics and Philology in the Department of Linguistics. His research interests concern Indo-European and general historical linguistics and historical linguistics of the individual Indo-European branches (Indo-Iranian, Anatolian (Hittite), Greek, Italic, Germanic, Celtic, Tocharian, Baltic, Slavic, Armenian, Albanian). Books include Hittite and the Indo-European Verb (2003) and Stative and Middle in Indo-European (1978). In 2007 he was the recipient of a Festschrift, Verba Docenti. Studies in Historical and Indo-European Linguistics. For more information, please visit his personal website.

 

Selected Publications

Hittite and the Indo-European Verb (Oxford, 2003)

“From reduplication to ablaut: the class VII strong verbs of Northwest Germanic,” Historische Sprachforschung 120 (1), 241-284 (2007)

The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent (Brill, 2017)

Contact Information

Boylston Hall 312
p: (617) 495-8154

Faculty Role