Georges-Jean Pinault (born 4 July 1955) is professor of linguistics at the
École pratique des hautes études.
[UMR 7528 - Mondes iranien et indien]
Pinault, Georges-Jean
/ref> He is one of the leading experts on Tocharian languages
The Tocharian (sometimes ''Tokharian'') languages ( or ), also known as ''Arśi-Kuči'', Agnean-Kuchean or Kuchean-Agnean, are an extinct branch of the Indo-European language family spoken by inhabitants of the Tarim Basin, the Tocharians. Th ...
and has published more than two hundred articles on Indo-European linguistics
Indo-European studies is a field of linguistics and an interdisciplinary field of study dealing with Indo-European languages, both current and extinct. The goal of those engaged in these studies is to amass information about the hypothetical pr ...
. He is one of the editors of the journal '' Tocharian and Indo-European Studies.''
Biography
Born on 4 July 1955, Georges-Jean Pinault studied at the École Normale Supérieure
École may refer to:
* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, S ...
(1974–1980), then at the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle and the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE). Initially teaching at Sorbonne Nouvelle, he later became professor at Blaise Pascal University
Blaise Pascal University (french: Université Blaise-Pascal), also known as Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand II or just Clermont-Ferrand II, was a public university with its main campus on in Clermont-Ferrand, France, with satellite l ...
, then director of research at the EPHE.
He is well known for having discovered Pinault's law,[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.] according to which laryngeals are lost word-medially following a consonant and before a yod:
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
External links
Pinault, Georges-Jean
on WorldCat
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Living people
Linguists from France
1955 births
Linguists of Indo-European languages
Linguists of Tocharian languages
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