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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
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Special Interests
- Greek, Latin, Germanic, and Indo-European Linguistics
- Sanskrit
- Classical Armenian
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.
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)
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; and Directeur d'Etudes Associe invite at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes
Etudes, Paris, IVe Section, Sciences historiques et philologiques, Dec. 1992-June
1993.
Last revised September 2007.