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

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References

  1. UMR 7528 - Mondes iranien et indien. Pinault, Georges-Jean
  2. Museum Tusculanums Press. Tocharian and Indo-European Studies
  3. 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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