Vedica
1st Edition
Published on 2. December 2019
Book
Hardback
568 pages
978-2-9570860-0-9 (ISBN)
Description
This volume is the first in a series dedicated to the important contributions of Prof. Georges-Jean Pinault to Indo-Aryan studies. The book gathers over twenty of his significant publications on Vedic linguistics and etymological problems, both in French and English. It includes complex issues and detailed discussions about phonetics and morphology of both Old Indo-Aryan and Indo-Iranian languages and deals with the etymology of prominent theonyms. It will be of utmost interest to anyone interested in the history of Indo-Aryan languages, Vedic poetics, Indian culture and Proto-Indo-European comparative linguistics.
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Person
Born in 1955, Georges-Jean Pinault is professor of linguistics at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris Sciences et Lettres). He is one of the leading experts on Tocharian languages and one of the most reputed specialists of Indo-Aryan languages. Georges-Jean Pinault has also published more than two hundred articles on Indo-European linguistics and is well known for having discovered Pinault's law.