Diebold Professor of Indo-European Linguistics and Philology
Spouse
Sheila Jasanoff
Children
Maya Jasanoff, Alan Jasanoff
Awards
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2011)
Fellow, Linguistic Society of America (2008)
William Channing Cabot Fellowship, Harvard University (2004-2005)
Hermann and Klara Collitz Professor, Linguistic Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz (1991)
Academic background
Education
Harvard University (BA, PhD)
Alma mater
Harvard University
Doctoral advisor
Calvert Watkins
Academic work
Discipline
Linguistics
Sub-discipline
Indo-European, Historical linguistics
Institutions
Harvard University (1998-present)
Cornell University (1978-1998)
Harvard University (1970-1978)
University of California, Berkeley (1969-1970)
Notable students
Mary Beckman
Claire Bowern
Craig Melchert
Alan Nussbaum
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.
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...
Jasanoff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: JayJasanoff (born 1942), American linguist Maya Jasanoff (born 1974), American historian...
the British Empire. Jasanoff grew up in Ithaca, New York and comes from a family of academics. Her parents, Sheila and JayJasanoff, are both Harvard professors...
married to Jay H. Jasanoff, and has two children, Maya Jasanoff, who is a professor in the Department of History at Harvard, and Alan Jasanoff, who is a...
husband is Alan Jasanoff, a neuroimaging scientist, a professor at MIT, the son of Harvard University professors JayJasanoff and Sheila Jasanoff). A Knowledge...
founders of modern phonology (converted to Orthodox Christianity in 1975) JayJasanoff, Indo-European linguist Samuel Noah Kramer, Sumerologist, known as the...
general picture of the Proto-Germanic situation as reconstructed by JayJasanoff. Earlier reconstructions of the 7th class were generally based mostly...
influenced by Watkins during his tenure at Harvard include Ives Goddard, JayJasanoff, D. Gary Miller, Michael Silverstein, Alice Harris, H. Craig Melchert...
"Harvard's Archie Epps is dead at 66". Boston Globe. "Curriculum Vitae : JayJasanoff : Harvard University : Department of Linguistics". People.fas.harvard...
received her PhD from Harvard University in 2004, under the advisement of JayJasanoff and Calvert Watkins. Her dissertation was about Bardi, a Nyulnyulan language...
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1946-1982) — linguist; member of the National Academy of Sciences (1974) JayJasanoff (Professor, 1978-1998) — Indo-European linguistics specialist Bronisław...
1989 The Early Runic Language of Scandinavia, 2000 Winfred P. Lehmann JayJasanoff "Hans Frede Nielsen, Odense C, fylder 70 år". Fyens Stiftstidende (in...
Studies in historical and Indo-European linguistics presented to Jay H. Jasanoff by students, colleagues, and friends. Ann Arbor and New York: Beech...
Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen, ISBN 9783851247022 Jasanoff, Jay H.; Nussbaum, Alan (1996), "Word games: the Linguistic Evidence in Black...
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