Georges Edmond Raoul Dumézil was a French philologist,linguist,and religious studies scholar who specialized in comparative linguistics and mythology. He was a professor at Istanbul University,École pratique des hautes études and the Collège de France,and a member of the Académie Française. Dumézil is well known for his formulation of the trifunctional hypothesis on Proto-Indo-European mythology and society. His research has had a major influence on the fields of comparative mythology and Indo-European studies.
Indo-European studies is a field of linguistics and an interdisciplinary field of study dealing with Indo-European languages,both current and extinct. The goal of those engaged in these studies is to amass information about the hypothetical proto-language from which all of these languages are descended,a language dubbed Proto-Indo-European (PIE),and its speakers,the Proto-Indo-Europeans,including their society and Proto-Indo-European mythology. The studies cover where the language originated and how it spread. This article also lists Indo-European scholars,centres,journals and book series.
James Patrick Mallory is an American archaeologist and Indo-Europeanist. Mallory is an emeritus professor at Queen's University,Belfast;a member of the Royal Irish Academy,and the former editor of the Journal of Indo-European Studies and Emania:Bulletin of the Navan Research Group (Belfast).
Winfred Philip Lehmann was an American linguist who specialized in historical,Germanic,and Indo-European linguistics. He was for many years a professor and head of departments for linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin,and served as president of both the Linguistic Society of America and the Modern Language Association. Lehmann was also a pioneer in machine translation. He lectured a large number of future scholars at Austin,and was the author of several influential works on linguistics.
Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov was a prominent Soviet/Russian philologist,semiotician and Indo-Europeanist probably best known for his glottalic theory of Indo-European consonantism and for placing the Indo-European urheimat in the area of the Armenian Highlands and Lake Urmia.
The Journal of Indo-European Studies (JIES) is a peer-reviewed academic journal of Indo-European studies. The journal publishes papers in the fields of anthropology,archaeology,mythology and linguistics relating to the cultural history of the Indo-European-speaking peoples. It is published every three months. The editor-in-chief is Emily Blanchard West. It also publishes the Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series.
Harold Craig Melchert is an American linguist known particularly for his work on the Anatolian branch of Indo-European.
Covington Scott Littleton was an American anthropologist who was Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Occidental College. A co-founder of the Journal of Indo-European Studies,Littleton was an expert on Indo-European mythology and Shinto,on which he was the author of numerous works.
Edgar Ghislain Charles Polomé was a Belgian-American philologist and religious studies scholar. He specialized in Germanic and Indo-European studies and was active at the University of Texas at Austin for much of his career.
Jaan Puhvel is an Estonian comparative linguist and comparative mythologist who specializes in Indo-European studies.
Anoop Chandola,author of 20 books,4 coauthored is an American linguist-anthropologist,originally from Pauri,where he was raised in a priestly Brahmin family. Though his father and uncles broke their ancestral polygamous tradition he suffered from the after-effects of polygamy.
Frances Jane Hassler Hill was an American anthropologist and linguist who worked extensively with Native American languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family and anthropological linguistics of North American communities.
Charles Frederick "Carl" Voegelin,often cited as C. F. Voegelin,was an American linguist and anthropologist. He was one of the leading authorities on Indigenous languages of North America,specifically the Algonquian and Uto-Aztecan languages. He published many influential works on Delaware,Shawnee,Hopi and the Tübatulabal languages.
David W. Anthony is an American anthropologist who is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Hartwick College. He specializes in Indo-European migrations,and is a proponent of the Kurgan hypothesis. Anthony is well known for his award-winning book The Horse,the Wheel,and Language (2007).
Paul William Friedrich was an American anthropologist,linguist,poet,and Professor of Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He studied at Harvard with Roman Jakobson,and received his Ph.D. from Yale under the supervision of Sidney Mintz. He specialized in Slavic languages and literature,and in the ethnographic and linguistic study of the Purépecha people of Western Mexico,as well as in the role of poetics and aesthetics in creating linguistic and discursive patterns. Among his best known works were Agrarian Revolt in a Mexican Village,The Princes of Naranja:An Essay in Anthrohistorical Method (1987),both ethnographic works describing local politics in a small community in the Mexican state of Michoacan. And in linguistics his works The Tarascan Suffixes of Locative Space:Meaning and Morphotactics (1971) and A Phonology of Tarascan (1973) were among the most detailed as well as earliest modern linguistic of the Purépecha language. In 2005,his former students honored him with a festschrift titled Language,Culture and the Individual:A Tribute to Paul Friedrich. In 2007 Yale University awarded Friedrich with the Wilbur Cross Medal. A prolific poet,he also published seven collections of poems,some of them focusing on the haiku form. He is the father of filmmaker Su Friedrich.
Donald J. Ward was an American folklorist who was Professor of German and Folklore and Director of Center for the Study of Comparative Folklore and Mythology at University of California,Los Angeles. He specialized in the study of Germanic and Indo-European mythology.
Nicholas Justin Allen was an English physician and social anthropologist who specialized in Indo-European studies. Allen was Viceregent at Wolfson College,Oxford and Anthropology Editor of the Journal of Indo-European Studies.
Martin E. Huld is an American linguist who is Professor Emeritus at California State University,Los Angeles. He specializes in Indo-European linguistics.
Linguistic Semantics:An introduction is a 1995 book by Sir John Lyons designed as an introductory text for the study of semantics within college-level linguistics.
William A. Longacre II was an American archaeologist and one of the founders of the processual "New Archaeology" of the 1960s.
