Hittite and the Indo-European Verb

• A revolutionary reformulation of the origins of Indo-European
• Accessible to all historical linguists and classical philologists
• Solves one of the great puzzles of the evolution of the Indo-European language family

Readership: Scholars of Indo-European linguistics; historical linguists, philologists, and classicists interested in the languages of the ancient world.

Jay H. Jasanoff, Harvard University

"A major event." - James Clackson, Times Literary Supplement

"Jasanoff comes up with some of the strongest arguments yet made for assuming that Indo-European languages other than Hittite and Tocharian underwent a substantial period of common development, and this needs to be fitted into any model of the dispersal of the language family." - James Clackson, Times Literary Supplement

1: The problem of the hi-conjugation
2: Morphological preliminaries: the perfect and the middle
3: The h2e-conjugation: root presents
4: The h2e-conjugation: i-presents
5: The h2e-conjugation: other characterized presents
6: h2e-conjugation aorists: part one
7: h2e-conjugation aorists: part two
8: Retrospective
Appendices