Georges-Jean Pinault
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Georges-Jean Pinault is professor of linguistics à the Ecole pratique des hautes études
École pratique des hautes études
The École pratique des hautes études is a Grand Établissement in Paris, France. It is counted among France's most prestigious research and higher education institutions....

. He one of the leading experts on Tocharian languages
Tocharian languages
Tocharian or Tokharian is an extinct branch of the Indo-European language family. The name is taken from the people known to the Greeks as the Tocharians . These are sometimes identified with the Yuezhi and the Kushans. The term Tokharistan usually refers to 1st millennium Bactria, which the...

 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
Tocharian and Indo-European Studies
Tocharian and Indo-European Studies is a scholarly journal on Tocharian in the Indo-European context, established in 1987 by the Icelandic linguist Jörundur Hilmarsson...

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He is well known for having discovered Pinault's law, according to which laryngeals are lost word-medially following a consonant and before a yod.
PIE *Hx > ∅/ C __ y

External links

  • Pinault, Georges-Jean on WorldCat
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