What is jay jasanoff?

Jay Jasanoff is a prominent linguist and a professor of Linguistics at Harvard University. His research interests include historical linguistics, comparative linguistics, and language contact. He received his PhD in linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984 and began his academic career at Cornell University before joining the faculty at Harvard in 1995. He has published extensively on language change, language typology, and the diachronic study of language, with a particular focus on the Indo-European family of languages. He is also known for his work on language evolution and the intersection of language and biology.