Jay H. Jasanoff

Specializes in Proto-Indo-European (PIE) and general historical linguistics of individual Indo-European branches. Offers a realistic picture of the PIE language as a language with time-depth, thus establishing what was already old and moribund in linguistic structure and what was innovative at the time of the break-up into its various branches. Developing a model of the PIE verbal system that tries to account for the discrepancies between the classical picture of the PIE verb and the surprisingly aberrant facts of Hittite and Anatolian. Hittite and the Indo-European Verb (2003) argues the case for a PIE h₂e-conjugation alongside the familiar mi-conjugation. Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America and holder of its Collitz Professorship in Historical Linguistics.