Jared S. Klein Distinguished Research Professor of Linguistics, Classics, and Germanic & Slavic Languages 226 Park Hall Phone: 706 542-9261 FAX: 706 542-8503 E-Mail: jklein@uga.edu Dr. Klein's Abridged CV

Special Interests

• Greek, Latin, Germanic, and Indo-European Linguistics
• Sanskrit
• Classical Armenian
• Old Church Slavic

Academic History

• Ph.D. 1974 Yale University, Linguistics
• M.A. 1972 Yale University, Linguistics
• M.Phil. 1971 Yale University, Linguistics
• B.A. 1968 Case Western Reserve University

Courses Taught

Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (LING 4150/6150), Introduction to Indo-European (LING 4210/6210), Sanskrit I and II (LING 4610/6610 and LING 4620/6620), Historical Linguistics (LING 4690/6690), Classical Armenian (LING 4900/6900), Gothic (LING 8320), Vedic Sanskrit (LING 8680)

Research Interests

Indo-European Linguistics, especially syntax and discourse structure; the comparative syntax of the Indo-European Languages whose earliest texts are translations of the Greek or Latin New Testament; the rhetorical poetics and stylistics of the Rigveda.

Books and Edited Volumes

• The Particle u in the Rigveda. A Synchronic and Diachronic Study (Ergänzungshefte zur Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung, 27.) Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1978 (pp. 218).
• Toward a Discourse Grammar of the Rigveda. Vol. 1: Parts 1 and 2. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1985 (pp. 465 and 274).
• On Verbal Accentuation in the Rigveda (American Oriental Society Essay Number 11) New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1992 (pp. 118).
• On Personal Deixis in Classical Armenian. A Study of the Syntax and Semantics of the n-, s-, and d- Demonstratives in Manuscripts E and M of the Old Armenian Gospels (Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft, Beiheft 17, Neue Folge) Dettelbach: Verlag J.H. Röll.
• Brother Jesus. The Nazarene through Jewish Eyes. By Schalom Ben-Chorin. Translated and edited by Jared S. Klein and Max Reinhart. Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 2001 (pp. xvi + 252). (Translation of Bruder Jesus. Der Nazarener in jüdischer Sicht).
• The Collected Writings of Warren Cowgill, Edited with an Introduction by Jared S. Klein. With contributions by other former colleagues and students. Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press, 2006 (pp. lviii + 578).

Recent Publications

(nearly all result from my current project [since 1998] on Stylistic Repetition in the Rigveda)

• (1999) "A Triadic Structural Feature of Nominal Anaphora in the Rigveda." In J. Habisreitinger, R. Plath, and S. Ziegler, eds. Gering und doch von Herzen. 25 Indogermanistische Beitraege, Bernhard Forssman zum 65. Geburtstag. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, pp. 119-34.
• (2000) "Polyptoton and Paronomasia in the Rigveda." In Almut Hintze and Eva Tichy, eds. Anusantatyai. Festschrift fuer Johanna Narten zum 70. Geburtstag. Dettelbach: J.H. Röll, pp. 135-55.
• (2002a) "Responsion in the Rigveda." Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol 122, no. 2, pp. 311-317.
• (2002b) "Homoioteleuton in the Rigveda." In Mark Southern, ed. Indo-European Perspectives. (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Nr. 43). Washington, D.C.: Institute for the Study of Man, pp. 199-222.
• (2002c) "The Syntax of Style: A Typology of Word and Morpheme-Level Repetition in the Rigveda." In Heinrich Hettrich, ed. Indogermanische Syntax. Fragen und Perspektiven. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, pp, 231-48 (Synopsis of 1999, 2000, 2002b, and 2004c).
• (2004a) "Patterns of Verb Repetition in the Rigveda." General Linguistics, vol. 41 [2001], nos. 1-4, pp. 222-256.
• (2004b) "Phrasal Repetition in the Rigveda." Bulletin d'Etudes Indiennes, vol. 21 [2003], no. 1, pp. 7-45.
• (2004c) "Amreditas and Related Constellations in the Rigveda." Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 123 [2003], no. 4, pp. 773-802.
• (2004d) "Nominal and Adverbial Amreditas and the Etymology of Rgvedic nana." In Arlo Griffiths and Jan E. M. Houben, eds. The Vedas. Text, Language & Ritual. Proceedings of the Third International Vedic Workshop, Leiden 2002. (Groningen Oriental Studies, 20). Groningen: Egbert Fortsen, pp. 251-60.
• (2006a) "Categories and Subtypes of Phonological Repetition in the Rigveda." In Gerd Carling, ed. GIŠ.HUR gul-za-at-ta-ra. Festschrift for Folke Josephson (Meijerbergs Arkiv för Svensk Ordforskning, 32). Göteborg: Meijerbergs institut för svensk etymologisk forskning, pp. 134-173.
• (2006b) "Aspects of the Rhetorical Poetics of the Rigveda." In Georges-Jean Pinault and Daniel Petit, eds. La langue poetique indo-europeenne. Actes du Colloque de travail de la Societe des Etudes Indo-Europeennes, Paris, 22-24 octobre 2003. Leeuven-Paris: Peeters, pp. 195-211.
• (2007a) "Sequential Negation in the Rigveda." In Alan Nussbaum, ed. Verba Docenti. Studies in historical and Indo-European linguistics presented to Jay H. Jasanoff by students, colleagues, and friends. Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press, pp. 213-29.
• (2007b) "Relative Pronoun Sequences in the Rigveda: A Syntactic, Rhetorical-Poetic, and Discourse-Level Study." Bulletin d’Études Indiennes, vol. 22-23 [2004-05], pp. 495-536.
• (2007c) "Classical Armenian Morphology". In Alan B. Kaye, ed. Morphologies of Asia and Africa. Winona Lake, IND.: Eisenbrauns, pp. 1051-86.
• (2007d) “On the Nature and Function of Preverb Repetition in the Rigveda”. Studien zur Indologie und Iranistik, vol. 24, pp. 91-103.

Some Recent Book Reviews

• (1998a) "Theory vs Practice in Diachronic Linguistics." Review article of Roger Lass. 1997. Historical Linguistics and Language Change. In Language Sciences, vol. 21 (1999), pp. 87-104.
• (1998b) Review of Keith Denning and William R. Leben. 1995. English Vocabulary Elements. In the Journal of English Linguistics, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 359-64.
• (2003) Review of Joseph Greenberg. 2000. Indo-European and Its Closest Relatives. The Eurasiatic Language Family. Volume I. Grammar. In the Journal of English Linguistics, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 370-83.
• (2004) Review of Robert Stockwell and Donka Minkova. 2001. English Words. History and Structure. In the Journal of English Linguistics, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 370-81.
• (2006a) "An Encyclopedia of Ancient Languages". Review article of Roger D. Woodard, ed. 2004. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. In the Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 125, no. 1, pp. 91-97.
• (2006b) "Teaching Indo-European". Review article of Benjamin W. Fortson IV. 2004. Indo-European Languaguage and Culture and Michael Meier-Bruegger, translated by Charles Gertmenian 2003. Indo-European Linguistics. With contributions by Matthias Fritz and Manfred Mayrhofer. In Diachronica, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 381-416.

Selected Masters Theses and Ph.D. Dissertations Directed

• Taejin Kim, Alliteration and Syntactic Structure in Beowulf: A Study of Lines 1-558 (M.A. Thesis, 1986)
• Nancy L. Condon, A Distributional and Discourse Analysis of -(u)h and other Conjunctions in the Gothic Bible (M.A. Thesis, 1990)
• Erika Anne Doster, Gothic and Modern English: A Comparative Lexical Analysis of Early Germanic Forms Retained in the Present-Day Language (M.A. Thesis, 1994)
• Eph Herbert Tunkle, Gothic Forefield Syntax: Focus, Repair, and Wackernagel's Law (Ph.D. Dissertation, 2000)
• Frederick James Pagniello, III, The Homeric Augment: A Deictic Particle (Ph.D. Dissertation, 2002)
• Elena Govberg-Afros, Aspects of Old Germanic Hypotaxis: The Relative Clause in Focus (Ph.D. Dissertation, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2002)
• Richard Jason Whitt, Grammaticalization and the Semantic Landscape of English and German Modal Verbs (M.A. Thesis, 2004)
• Olga Thomason, The Prepositional Systems in Biblical Greek, Gothic, Classical Armenian, and Old Church Slavic (Ph.D. Dissertation, 2006)
• Jack Bucsko, Preverbs and Idiomatization in Gothic(Ph.D. Dissertation, 2008)

Other Professional Experience

Dr. Klein was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities (Dept. of Linguistics) at Harvard University, 1978-79; Visiting Professor (Indogermanisches Seminar) at the University of Zurich, Summer Semester, 1985; Lady Davis Visiting Professor (Dept. of Indian, Iranian, and Armenian Studies) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Fall Semester, 1985; Directeur d'Etudes Associe invite at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, IVe Section, Sciences historiques et philologiques, Dec. 1992-June 1993; and Leiv Eiricsson Visiting Scholar, University of Oslo, May - June 2008.