Jens Elmegård Rasmussen Explained

Jens Elmegård Rasmussen (15 March 1944 – 15 May 2013) was associate professor of Indo-European Studies and head of the Roots of Europe research center at the University of Copenhagen from its initiation in 2008 until his death.^[1] He was an expert on Proto-Indo-European and Indo-European languages in general, especially morphophonemics, but he also published articles on the history of Eskimo–Aleut languages and linguistic diachrony. He supported the Indo-Uralic and Eurasiatic hypotheses.

Elmegård Rasmussen was 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 was married to the Danish Indo-Europeanist Birgit Anette Olsen.^[2]

Selected publications

• 1979, Anaptyxis, gemination and syncope in Eskimo: A diachronic study. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Linguistic Circle.
• 1989, Studien zur Morphophonemik der Indogermanischen Grundsprache. Innsbruck: Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft.
• 1999, Selected Papers on Indo-European Linguistics. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press.

References

1. Web site: University of Copenhagen . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120225172329/https://rootsofeurope.ku.dk/english/staff/profile/?id=82238 . 2012-02-25.
2. Web site: Hyllested . Adam . 2022-08-25 . Jens Elmegård Rasmussen . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230713175949/https://denstoredanske.lex.dk/Jens_Elmegård_Rasmussen . 2023-07-13 . 2023-07-13 . . da.