Publications

BOOKS (authored and edited)

Cover of the book, The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent

The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent (= Brill’s studies in Indo-European Languages and Linguistics 17). Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2017.

Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 8, edited by Cedric Boeckx, Claire Bowern and Jay Jasanoff. Cambridge, 2003.

Cover of the book, Hittite and Indo-European Verb

Hittite and the Indo-European Verb. Oxford and New York, 2003.

Mír Curad. Studies Presented to Calvert Watkins, edited by Jay Jasanoff, H. Craig Melchert, and Lisi Oliver (= Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 92). Innsbruck, 1998.

Stative and Middle in Indo-European (= Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 23). Innsbruck, 1978.

DEDICATED VOLUMES

Verba Docenti. Studies in historical and Indo-European linguistics presented to Jay H. Jasanoff by students, colleagues, and friends, edited by Alan J. Nussbaum. Ann Arbor and New York, 2007.

Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 12 (“dedicated to Professor Jay Jasanoff”), edited by Jeremy Rau, Keith Plaster, Patrick Liu, and Yaroslav Gorbachov. Cambridge, 2007.

ARTICLES

“PIE *g^wíh₃u̯e/o- ‘live’, u-presents, and the prehistory of the thematic conjugation.” To appear.

“Vedic dháya-, citáya- and an Indo-Iranian sound law.” To appear.

“Hitt. tamā̆šzi ‘(op)presses’.” To appear in a forthcoming Festschrift.

“Double nasal presents.” To appear.

“The two faces of *g^when-,” to appear in the proceedings of the 15th Fachtagung of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft (Vienna, 2017).

“Gk. ἔγνωκα and the perfect of PIE *ǵneh₃– ‘know’,” to appear in Darya Kavitskaya and Alan C. L. Yu, eds., The Life Cycle of Language: Past, Present, and Future (Oxford: Clarendon Press).

“Pre-Toch. *h₁lud^h-néu-ti ‘goes out’,” in Michaël Peyrot, Hannes Fellner, and Melanie Malzahn, eds., lyūke wmer ra. Indo-European Studies in Honor of Georges-Jean Pinault (Ann Arbor/New York: Beech Stave Press, 2021).

“Garden paths in internal reconstruction,” in Lucy Thomason, David J. Costa, and Amy Dahlstrom, eds., Webs of Relationships and Words from Long Ago. A Festschrift Presented to Ives Goddard on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday (Petoskey, MI: Mundart Press, 2021), 179-91.

“Stative-intransitive aorists in Hittite,” in Adam Alvah Catt, Ronald I. Kim, and Brent Vine, eds., QAZZU warrai. Anatolian and Indo-European Studies in Honor of Kazuhiko Yoshida (Ann Arbor/New York: Beech Stave Press, 2019), 130-39.

“Some difficult Tocharian genitives,” Indogermanische Forschungen 124 (2019), 47-59.

“The sigmatic forms of the Hittite verb,” Indo-European Linguistics 7 (2019), 13-71.

“The Germanic weak preterite: Facing up to talgidai,” Historische Sprachforschung 131 (2019), 146-67.

“What happened to the perfect in Hittite? A contribution to the theory of the h₂e-conjugation,” in Elisabeth Rieken, ed., with the collaboration of Ulrich Geupel and Theresa Maria Roth, 100 Jahre Entzifferung des Hethitischen. Morphosyntaktische Kategorien in Sprachgeschichte und Forschung. Akten der Arbeitstagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft vom 21. bis 23. September 2015 in Marburg (Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2018), 137-56.

“The Phonology of Tocharian B okso ‘ox’,” in Farnah. Indo-Iranian and Indo-European Studies in Honor of Sasha Lubotsky (Ann Arbor/New York: Beech Stave Press, 2018), 72-78.

“Palatable thorns,” in Dieter Gunkel, Stephanie W. Jamison, Angelo O. Mercado, and Kazuhiko Yoshida, eds., Vina Diem Celebrent. Studies in Linguistics and Philology in Honor of Brent Vine (Ann Arbor/New York: Beech Stave Press, 2018), 133-40.

“The impact of Hittite and Tocharian: Rethinking Indo-European in the twentieth century and beyond,” in Jared S. Klein and Brian D. Joseph, eds., The Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics (Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2017), 35-53.

“The Old Irish f-future,” in Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen, Adam Hyllested, Anders Richardt Jørgensen, Guus Kroonen, Jenny Helena Larsson, Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead, Thomas Olander, Tobias Mosbæk Søborg, eds., Usque Ad Radices. Indo-European studies in honour of Birgit Anette Olsen (= Copenhagen Studies in Indo-European 8) (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2017), 325-38.

“A revised history of the Greek pluperfect” (with Joshua T. Katz), in Ivo Hajnal, Daniel Kölligan, and Katharina Zipser, Miscellanea Indogermanica. Festschrift für José Luis García Ramón zum 65. Geburtstag (= Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenchaft XX) (Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen, 2017), 337-51.

“Germanic languages,” in Sander Goldberg, ed., The Oxford Classical Dictionary, electronic edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).

“Toch. AB ākl- ‘learn’,” in Andrew Miles Byrd, Jessica DeLisi, and Mark Wenthe, eds., Tavet Tat Satyam. Studies in Honor of Jared S. Klein on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday (Ann Arbor/New York: Beech Stave Press, 2016), 123-29.

“Vedic stuṣé ‘I praise’,” in Dieter Gunkel, Joshua T. Katz, Brent Vine, and Michael Weiss, eds., Sahasram Ati Srajas. Indo-Iranian and Indo-European Studies in Honor of Stephanie W. Jamison (Ann Arbor/New York: Beech Stave Press, 2016), 135-45.

“PIE *u̯ei̯d- ‘notice’ and the origin of the thematic aorist,” in Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen, Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead, Thomas Olander, and Birgit Anette Olsen, eds., Etymology and the European Lexicon. Proceedings of the 14th Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, 17–22 September 2012, Copenhagen (Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2016), 197-208.

“Saussure’s law, the nom. pl. in -ai, and the treatment of acute diphthongs in final syllables in Lithuanian,” Baltistica LI(1) (2016), 7-17.

“The Tocharian B accent,” in Melanie Malzahn, Michaël Peyrot, Hannes Fellner and Theresa-Susanna Illés, eds., Tocharian Texts in Context. International Conference on Tocharian Manuscripts and Silk Road Culture held June 26–28, 2013 in Vienna (Bremen: Hempen Verlag, 2015), 87-98.

“Calvert Ward Watkins” (with Brian D. Joseph), Language 91 (2015), 245-52.

“Gothic stojan ‘judge’, Old High German stūēn ‘atone (for)’,” in H. Craig Melchert, Elisabeth Rieken, and Thomas Steer, eds., Munus amicitiae Norbert Oettinger a collegis et amicis dicatum (Ann Arbor/New York: Beech Stave Press, 2014), 113-120.

“A note on the Slavic genitive plural,” in Michael S. Flier, David J. Birnbaum, and Cynthia M. Vakareliyska, eds., Philology Broad and Deep: In Memoriam Horace G. Lunt (Bloomington: Slavica, 2014), 143-50.

“The Tocharian subjunctive and preterite in *-a-,” in Adam Cooper, Jeremy Rau, and Michael Weiss, eds., Multi Nominis Grammaticus: Studies in Classical and Indo-European Linguistics in Honor of Alan J. Nussbaum on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Ann Arbor/New York: Beech Stave Press, 2012), 105-120.

“Did Hittite have si-imperatives?” in Roman Sukač and Ondřej Šefčík, eds., The Sound of Indo-European II. Papers on Indo-European Phonetics, Phonemics and Morphophonemics (= Lincom Studies in Indo-European Linguistics 41) (München: Lincom Europa, 2012).

“Long-vowel preterites in Indo-European,” in H. Craig Melchert, ed. The Indo-European Verb. Proceedings of the Conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies, Los Angeles 13–15 September 2010 (Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2012), 127-135.

“Balto-Slavic mobility as an Indo-European problem,” in R. Sukač, ed., From Present to Past and Back: Papers on Baltic and Slavic Accentology (= Potsdam Linguistic Investigations 7) (Frankfurt, 2011), 52-74.

“Lycian sttati ‘stands’,” in Jörg Klinger, Elisabeth Rieken, and Christel Rüster, eds., Investigationes Anatolicae: Gedenkschrift für Erich Neu (= Studien zu den Bogazköy-Texten 52) (Wiesbaden, 2010), 143-152.

“The Luvian ‘case’ in -ša/-za,” in Ronald Kim, Norbert Oettinger, Elisabeth Rieken, and Michael Weiss, eds., Ex Anatolia Lux: Anatolian and Indo-European Studies in Honor of H. Craig Melchert on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Ann Arbor and New York, 2010), 167-179.

“The origin of the Latin gerund and gerundive: a new proposal,” in Harvey Goldblatt and Nancy Shields Kollman, eds., Rus´ Writ Large: Languages, Histories, Cultures. Essays Presented in Honor of Michael S. Flier on his Sixty-Fifth Birthday (= Harvard Ukrainian Studies 28, 1-4 (2006 [2010])), 195-208.

“Notes on the internal history of the PIE optative,” in Kazuhiko Yoshida and Brent Vine, eds., East and West: Papers in Indo-European Studies (Bremen, 2009), 47-68.

“The accentual type *vèdō, *vedetí and the origin of mobility in the Balto-Slavic verb,” Baltistica 43.3 (2008), 339-379.

“The ending of the PIE 2 sg. middle imperative,” Die Sprache 46 (2006 [2008]), 203-212.

“*-bhi, *-bhis, *-ōis: following the trail of the PIE instrumental plural,” in Jens Elmegård Rasmussen and Thomas Olander, eds., Internal Reconstruction in Indo-European: Methods, Results, and Problems (= Copenhagen Studies in Indo-European 3) (Copenhagen, 2009), 137-149.

“*g^wes-, *(z)g^wes- or *(s)g^wesh₂–? The PIE root for ‘extinguish/go out’,” in Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans and Luisa Miceli, eds., Morphology and Language History. In honour of Harold Koch (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 298) (Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 2008), 155-166.

“From reduplication to ablaut: the class VII strong verbs of Northwest Germanic,” Historische Sprachforschung 120 (2007), 241-284.

“Proto-Indo-European morphology,” Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 2005). 10, 213-221.

“Balto-Slavic accentuation: telling news from noise,” Baltistica 39 (2005), 171-177.

“‘Stative’ *-ē- revisited,” Die Sprache 43 (2002-03 [2004]), 127-170.

“Plus ça change. . . Lachmann’s Law in Latin,” in J. H. W. Penney, ed., Indo-European Perspectives: Studies in Honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies (Oxford and New York, 2004), 405-416; earlier version in Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics 8 (2003).

“Acute vs. circumflex: Some notes on PIE and post-PIE prosodic phonology,” in Adam Hyllested et al., eds., Per Aspera ad Asteriscos. Studia Indogermanica in honorem Jens Elmegård Rasmussen (= Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 112) (Innsbruck, 2004), 247-256; earlier version in Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics 8 (2003).

“Gothic,” in R. Woodard, ed., Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages (Cambridge, 2004), 881-906.

“Hitt. naišhut, nešhut,“ Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics 8, 33-44 (2003).

“The Vedic imperatives yódhi ‘fight’ and bodhi ‘heed’,” in J. Brereton and S. Jamison, eds., Indic and Iranian Studies in Honor of Stanley Insler on his Sixty-fifth Birthday (= Journal of the American Oriental Society, 122.2 (2002)), 290-295.

“The nom. sg. of Germanic n-stems,” in A. Wedel and H.-J. Busch, eds., Verba et Litterae: Explorations in Germanic Languages and German Literature. Essays in Honor of Albert L. Lloyd (Newark, Delaware, 2002), 31-46.

“Some relative forms of the verb in Old Irish,” in H. Eichner et al., eds., Compositiones Indogermanicae in Memoriam Jochem Schindler (Prague, 1999), 205-222.

“The thematic conjugation revisited,” in J. Jasanoff et al., eds., Mír Curad. Studies Presented to Calvert Watkins (Innsbruck, 1998), 301-316.

“Stolen legacy? The evidence from language,” in A. Ross and A. Lea, eds., Were the Achievements of Ancient Greece Borrowed from Africa? (Washington D. C., 1997), 57-68.

“Gathic Avestan cikōitərəš,” in A. Lubotsky, ed., Sound Law and Analogy. Papers in Honor of Robert S. P. Beekes (Amsterdam and Atlanta, 1997), 119-130.

“Indo-European languages,” in 1997 and subsequent editions of Encyclopaedia Britannica (revision of Macropaedia and Micropaedia articles originally written by W. Cowgill; listed as co-author).

“An Italo-Celtic isogloss: the 3 pl. mediopassive in *-ntro,” in D. Q. Adams, ed., Festschrift for Eric P. Hamp. Volume I (= Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph 23) (Washington, D.C., 1997), 146-161.

“Where does Skt. bhávati come from?” in D. Disterheft et al., eds., Studies in Honor of Jaan Puhvel. Part One: Ancient Languages and Philology (= Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph 20) (Washington, D.C., 1997), 173-186.

“Germanic languages,” in S. Hornblower and A. Spawforth, eds., The Oxford Classical Dictionary, third edition (Oxford and New York, 1996).

“Word games: the linguistic evidence in Black Athena,“ in M. Lefkowitz and G. Rogers, eds., Black Athena Revisited (Chapel Hill, 1996), 177-205 (with Alan Nussbaum).

“The Brittonic subjunctive and future,” in J. E. Rasmussen, ed., In honorem Holger Pedersen. Kolloquium der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft vom 26. bis 28. März 1993 in Kopenhagen (Wiesbaden, 1994), 199-220.

“Aspects of the internal history of the PIE verbal system,” in G. E. Dunkel et al., eds., Früh-, Mittel-, und Spätindogermanisch. Akten der IX. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft (Wiesbaden, 1994), 149-68.

“Germanic (le germanique),” in F. Bader, ed., Langues indo-européennes (Paris, 1994), 251-280.

“Reconstructing morphology: the role of o-grade in Hittite and Tocharian verb inflection,” in E. C. Polomé and W. Winter, eds., Reconstructing Languages and Cultures (= Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 58) (Berlin and New York, 1992), 129-156.

“The origin of the Italic imperfect subjunctive,” Historische Sprachforschung 104 (1991), 84-105.

“The ablaut of the root aorist optative in Proto-Indo-European,” Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 52 (1991), 101-122.

“The origin of the Celtic comparative type OIr tressa, MW trech ‘stronger’,” Die Sprache 34 (1988-90 [1991]), 171-189.

“Old Irish bé ‘woman’,” Ériu 40 (1989), 135-141.

“Language and gender in the Tarim Basin: the Tocharian 1 sg. pronoun,” Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 3 (1989), 125-148.

“The s-aorist in Hittite and Tocharian,” Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 2 (1988), 52-76.

“PIE *gnē- ‘recognize, know’,” in A. Bammesberger, ed., Die Laryngaltheorie (Heidelberg, 1988), 227-239.

“Old Irish boí ‘was’,” in M. A. Jazayery and W. Winter, eds., Languages and Cultures. Studies in Honor of Edgar C. Polomé (Berlin, New York and Amsterdam, 1988), 299-308.

“Some irregular imperatives in Tocharian,” in C. Watkins, ed., Studies in Memory of Warren Cowgill (1929-1985) (Berlin and New York, 1987), 92-112.

“The tenses of the Latin perfect system,” in G. Cardona and N. H. Zide, eds., Festschrift for Henry Hoenigswald on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday (Tübingen, 1987), 177-183.

“Old Irish tair ‘come!’,” Transactions of the Philological Society 1986, 132-141.

“Reply to Orr,” Journal of Indo-European Studies 14 (1986), 183.

“Texts and fragments,” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 35 (1984), 194-196 (with David I. Owen).

“A rule of final syllables in Slavic,” Journal of Indo-European Studies 11 (1983), 139-49; earlier version in C. Watkins, ed., Indo-European Studies IV (Cambridge, 1981), 83-98.

“Reply to Schmalstieg and Kortlandt,” Journal of Indo-European Studies 11 (1983), 187-190.

“The IE ‘ā-preterite’ and related forms,” Indogermanische Forschungen 88 (1983), 54-83; earlier version in C. Watkins, ed., Indo-European Studies IV (Cambridge, 1981), 207-252.

“Hittite arai- and Armenian y-areay,” Annual of Armenian Linguistics 2 (1981), 15-20; earlier version in C. Watkins, ed., Indo-European Studies IV (Cambridge, 1981), 473-483.

“The nominative singular of n-stems in Germanic,” in K. Klar, M. Langdon, S. Silver, eds., American Indian and Indoeuropean Studies: Papers in Honor of Madison S. Beeler (The Hague, 1980), 375-382; earlier version in C. Watkins, ed., Indo-European Studies III (Cambridge, 1977), 149-162.

“The position of the hi-conjugation,” in E. Neu and W. Meid, eds., Hethitisch und Indogermanisch. Vergleichende Studien zur historischen Grammatik und zur dialektgeographischen Stellung der indogermanischen Sprachgruppe Altkleinasiens (= Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 25) (Innsbruck, 1979), 79-90.

“Notes on the Armenian personal endings,” Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Sprachforschung 93 (1979), 133-149; earlier version in C. Watkins, ed., Indo-European Studies III (Cambridge, 1977), 405-435.

“Observations on the Germanic Verschärfung,” Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 37 (1978), 77-90; earlier version in C. Watkins, ed., Indo-European Studies III (Cambridge, 1977), 51-70.

“A note on Hittite tāya- ‘steal’,” Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 37 (1978), 91-92; earlier version in C. Watkins, ed., Indo-European Studies III (Cambridge, 1977), 187-189.

“The r-endings of the IE middle,” Die Sprache 24 (1977), 159-170; earlier version in C. Watkins, ed., Indo-European Studies III (Cambridge, 1977), 163-186.

“Gr. ámphō, lat. ambo et le mot indo-européen pour ‘l’un et l’autre’,” Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique 71 (1976), 125-131; earlier version in C. Watkins, ed., Indo-European Studies III (Cambridge, 1977), 537-549.

“The Baltic future,” in C. Watkins, ed., Indo-European Studies II (Report HARV-LING-02-75 to the National Science Foundation, 1975), 90-100.

“Class III presents in Tocharian,” in C. Watkins, ed., Indo-European Studies II (Report HARV-LING-02-75 to the National Science Foundation, 1975), 101-115.

“The Germanic third weak class,” Language 49 (1973), 850-70; earlier version in C. Watkins, ed., Indo-European Studies (Report HARV-LING-01-72 to the National Science Foundation, 1972), 232-274.

“The Hittite ablative in -anz(a),” Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 31 (1973), 123-128.

“Some forms of ‘go’ in Germanic,” in C. Watkins, ed., Indo-European Studies (Report HARV-LING-01-72 to the National Science Foundation, 1972), 291-307.

“The Germanic weak preterite,” in C. Watkins, ed., Indo-European Studies (Report HARV-LING-01-72 to the National Science Foundation, 1972), 275-290.

“Remarks on the Scandinavian word tones,” Lingua 16 (1966), 71-81; reprinted in E. H. Jahr and O. Lorentz, eds., Prosodi/Prosody (Tromsø, 1983).

REVIEWS

Sarah Grey Thomason and Terrence Kaufman, Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 1988); Language 65 (1989), 623-628.

Colin Renfrew, Archaeology and Language (London, 1987); Language 64 (1988), 800-802.

H. Craig Melchert, Studies in Hittite Historical Phonology (Göttingen, 1984); Journal of the American Oriental Society 106 (1986), 832.

William R. Schmalstieg, Indo-European Linguistics: A New Synthesis (University Park, 1980); Language 61 (1985), 922-923.

“Nominal suffixation in Romance: two approaches,” Romance Philology 28 (1975), 555-564 [review article].

“A generative view of historical linguistics,” Romance Philology 25 (1971), 74-85 [review article].