Diebold Professor of Indo-European Linguistics and Philology
Chair of Department

Research Interests

Indo-European and general historical linguistics; historical linguistics of individual Indo-European branches (Indo-Iranian, Hittite (Anatolian), Greek, Italic, Celtic, Tocharian, Germanic, Baltic, Slavic, Armenian, Albanian)

Representative Publications

Hittite and the Indo-European Verb. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press (2003).

“Acute vs. circumflex: Some notes on PIE and post-PIE prosodic phonology.” Per aspera ad asteriscos [Festschrift J. E. Rasmussen], ed. A. Hyllested et al., 247-255. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft (2004).

“Plus ça change. . . Lachmann’s Law in Latin,” Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics 8, 1-18 (2003); to appear in a forthcoming Festschrift (2004).

“The Vedic imperatives yódhi ‘fight’ and bodhi ‘heed’,” Journal of the American Oriental Society, 122.2 (2002), 290-295.

Mailing Address
Department of Linguistics
312 Boylston Hall
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138

Office Telephone: (617) 495-8154
E-mail: jasanoff@fas.harvard.edu