Hans Henrich Hock (born 26 September 1938) is Professor Emeritus of

Linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Ling ...

and

Sanskrit Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had Trans-cultural diffusion ...

at the

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univers ...

. Hock holds a PhD in linguistics from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the w ...

. His research interests include general

historical History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...

and

comparative linguistics Comparative linguistics, or comparative-historical linguistics (formerly comparative philology) is a branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages to establish their historical relatedness. Genetic relatedness ...

, as well as the linguistics of

. He currently teaches general historical linguistics, Indo-European linguistics, Sanskrit, diachronic

sociolinguistics Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any or all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used, and society's effect on language. It can overlap with the sociology of ...

pidgin A pidgin , or pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups of people that do not have a language in common: typically, its vocabulary and grammar are limited and often drawn from s ...

s and creoles, and the

history of linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of language, involving analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context. Language use was first systematically documented in Mesopotamia, with extant lexical lists of the 3rd to the 2nd ...

. He has served on the Undergraduate Program Committee of the Department of Linguistics since 1993.

Publications

*"The so-called Aeolic inflection of the Greek contract verbs". PhD dissertation, Yale University, 1971. *''Principles of historical linguistics''. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1986. (''Trends in Linguistics'': Studies and Monographs, 34. Also as paperback.) (pp. xii, 722) ** ''Principles of historical linguistics; second, corrected and augmented edition''. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1991. (pp. xiii, 744) * (ed.) ''Studies in Sanskrit syntax: A volume in honor of the centennial of Speijer's "Sanskrit Syntax"''. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1991. * (ed. with Elmer Antonsen) ''Stæfcræft: Studies in Germanic Linguistics: Selected papers from the 1st and 2nd Symposium on Germanic Linguistics, University of Chicago, 4 April 1985, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 3–4 Oct. 1986''. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1991. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 79.) (pp. viii, 217). *(with Brian Joseph) ''Language history, language change, and language relationship: An introduction to historical and comparative linguistics''. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1996. (Trends in Linguistics, 93. Also as paperback.) (pp. xv, 602). ** (with Brian Joseph) ''Language history, language change, and language relationship: An introduction to historical and comparative linguistics''. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, rev. 2nd ed, 2009. *''An early Upanisadic reader, with notes, glossary, and an appendix of related Vedic texts''. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2007.

References

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as of 13 Feb 2014 1938 births Living people Linguists from the United States Linguists from Germany American Indologists Yale University alumni Fellows of the Linguistic Society of America {{US-linguist-stub