Hans Henrich Hock (born 26 September 1938) is an American linguist and Professor Emeritus of

Linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

and

Sanskrit Sanskrit (; stem form ; nominal singular , ,) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in northwest South Asia after its predecessor languages had Trans-cultural ...

at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Hock holds an M.A. from

Northwestern University Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...

(1964) and a PhD in linguistics from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

(1971). His research interests include general historical and comparative linguistics, as well as the linguistics of

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

pidgin A pidgin , or pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified form of contact language 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 f ...

s and creoles, and the history of linguistics. 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

External links

UIUC webpage
at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Department of Linguistics
Personal webpage
as of 13 Feb 2014 1938 births Living people Linguists from the United States 20th-century German linguists German Sanskrit scholars American Indologists American Sanskrit scholars Yale University alumni University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty Fellows of the Linguistic Society of America {{US-linguist-stub