Georges-Jean Pinault
Georges-Jean Pinault (born 1955) is professor of linguistics at the Ecole pratique des hautes études.[1] He is one of the leading experts on Tocharian languages and has published more than two hundred articles on Indo-European linguistics. He is one of the editors of the journal Tocharian and Indo-European Studies.[2]
He is well known for having discovered Pinault's law,[3] according to which laryngeals are lost word-medially following a consonant and before a yod. PIE *Hx > ∅/ C __ y
Bibliography
- Monographs
- Sites divers de la région de Koutcha. Épigraphie koutchéenne (avec Chao Huashan, Simone Gaulier et al.) = Mission Paul Pelliot (Documents conservés au Musée Guimet et à la Bibliothèque Nationale), t. VIII, Paris, Instituts d’Asie du Collège de France, 1987. « Épigraphie koutchéenne : I. Laissez-passer de caravanes.- II. Graffites et inscriptions », p. 59-196, 57 planches de photographies.
- Introduction au tokharien. In : Lalies 7. Actes de la session de linguistique d’Aussois (27 août-1er septembre 1985), Paris, 1989, p. 5-224. Cinq chapitres : I. Données externes.- II. Phonologie.- III. Morphologie nominale.- IV. Morphologie verbale.- V. Lecture de textes
- Fragments of the Tocharian A Maitreyasamiti-Nâtaka of the Xinjiang Museum (China).Transliterated, translated and annotated by Ji Xianlin, in collaboration with Werner Winter and Georges-Jean Pinault, Berlin-New York, Mouton de Gruyter (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 113), 1998, 392 pages, 88 planches de photographies.
- Chrestomathie tokharienne. Textes et grammaire, Leuven-Paris, Peeters (Collection linguistique publiée par la Société de Linguistique de Paris, t. XCV), 2008, 692 pages.
- Dictionary and Thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: a-j. Compiled by Gerd Carling in collaboration with Georges-Jean Pinault and Werner Winter, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009, XXXIX+204 pages.
References
- ↑ UMR 7528 - Mondes iranien et indien. Pinault, Georges-Jean
- ↑ Museum Tusculanums Press. Tocharian and Indo-European Studies
- ↑ Pinault, Georges-Jean. 1982. A neglected phonetic law: The reduction of the Indo-European laryngeals in internal syllables before yod. In Ahlqvist A. (ed.), Papers from the 5th International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 265- 272.
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