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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Georges-Jean Pinault
- Georges-Jean Pinault (born 1955) is professor of linguistics at the Ecole pratique des hautes études.
- 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.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 > Ø/ C __ y
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