He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1974 and has been teaching at the University of Georgia since 1972, having been promoted to Associate Professor in 1979 and to Professor in 1984. Other positions he has held are as follows: Georgia-Erlangen Exchange Professor, May-August 1983; Visiting Professor, University of Zurich, April-July 1985; Lady Davis Visiting Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, September 1985-January 1986; and Directeur d'Etudes Associe invite (Visiting Professor), Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, IVe Section: Sciences Historiques et Philologiques, Paris, December 1992-June 1993.
Dr. Klein's research interests include Indo-European Linguistics, Rig- and Atharvavedas, Old Persian and Avestan, and Classical Armenian. He has received a Post-doctoral fellowship in Linguistics, Yale University, June 1974-June 1975 and an Andrew W. Mellon Faculty fellowhsip in the Humanities, Harvard University, July 1978-June 1979.
Toward a Discourse Grammar of the Rigveda. Vol. 1: Coordinate Conjunction. Parts 1 and 2. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitatsverlag, 1985 (465 and 274 pp.).
On Verbal Accentuation in the Rigveda (American Oriental Society Essay Number 11) . New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1992 (118 pp.).
On Personal Deixis in Classical Armenian. A Study of the Syntax and Semantics of the n-, s-, and d- Demonstratives in Manuscripts E and M of the Old Armenian Gospels (Munchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft, Beiheft 17, Neu Folge). Dettelbach: Verlag Dr. J.H. Roll, 1996 (ix and 146 pp.).
Articles:
"Coordinate Conjunction in Old Persian." Journal of the American
Oriental Society 108 (1988) 387-417.
"'Sa-fige' and Indo-European Deixis." Historische Sprachforschung 109 (1996) 21-39.
"Indefinite Pronouns, Polarity, and Related Phenomena in Classical Armenian: A Study Based on the Old Armenian Gospels." TPS 95, 189-245.
Professor Klein can contacted at the following address:
jklein@uga.cc.uga.edu