Jens Elmegård Rasmussen

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Jens Elmegård Rasmussen (March 15, 1944, Denmark) is associate professor of Indo-European Studies at University of Copenhagen. He is an expert on Proto-Indo-European and Indo-European languages in general, especially morphophonemics, but he has also published articles on the history of Eskimo-Aleut languages and linguistic diachrony. He supports the Indo-Uralic and Eurasiatic hypotheses.

Elmegård Rasmussen is the leading editor of the international scholarly journal Tocharian and Indo-European Studies (TIES) and chief editor of the book series Copenhagen Studies in Indo-European. He is married to the Danish Indo-Europeanist Birgit Anette Olsen.

[edit] Selected publications

• 1989, Studien zur Morphophonemik der Indogermanischen Grundsprache. Innsbruck: Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft.
• 1999, Selected Papers on Indo-European Linguistics. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press.

Persondata
NAME	Rasmussen, Jens Elmegård
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Linguist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 15, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Denmark
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH