Peter E. Hook (born 1942) is professor emeritus in th
Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
at the

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Biography

Hook was born in southwestern Connecticut and attended public and private school in northeastern Ohio. He graduated from Harvard College in 1964 and went to India as a member of the American Peace Corps before earning his PhD in Indo-Aryan linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. He is married to Prof. Hsin-hsin Liang who directs the Chinese language program at the University of Virginia. They have a daughter Leise and a son Lawrence.

Academic work

Hook's academic interest has been in the linguistic description of languages belonging to the Indo-Aryan family in South Asia, and more broadly in their place in Masica's Indo-Turanian linguistic area. At Michigan, he taught

Hindi Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the Standard language, standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of India, official language of the Government ...

at all levels, occasionally other South Asian languages, along with courses in linguistics and South Asian literature for three and a half decades, and published on both Indo-Aryan languages and linguistics. His chief contributions are ''The Compound Verb in Hindi'' and numerous articles on the compound verb and other syntactic and semantic phenomena in western Indo-Aryan languages and dialects spoken in

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, and

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Kashmiri Kashmiri may refer to: * People or things related to the Kashmir Valley or the broader region of Kashmir * Kashmiris, an ethnic group native to the Kashmir Valley * Kashmiri language, the language of the Kashmiris ethnic group People with the nam ...

Marathi Marathi may refer to: *Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India **Marathi people (Uttar Pradesh), the Marathi people in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh *Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Mar ...

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Rajasthani Rajasthani may refer to: * something of, from, or related to Rajasthan, a state of India * Rajasthani languages, a group of Indic languages spoken there * Rajasthani people, the native inhabitants of the state * Rajasthani architecture, Indian ar ...

, Shina, and

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. After

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in his ''La Formation de la Langue Marathe'', Hook was the first to realize that Kashmiri, not unlike

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, has

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. More recent publications have refined the notion of South Asia as a

linguistic area A sprachbund (, from , 'language federation'), also known as a linguistic area, area of linguistic convergence, or diffusion area, is a group of languages that share areal features resulting from geographical proximity and language contact. The ...

as first adumbrated by

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and - with the addition of Central Asia and Eastern Asia - expanded by Colin Masica.Masica, Colin P. (1976). ''Defining a Linguistic Area: South Asia''. University of Chicago Press.

Publications

*Semantic neutrality in complex predicates in East and South Asian languages. (with Prashant Pardeshi and Hsin-Hsin Liang). In ''Linguistics'' 50: 605–632. *Searching for the Goddess: A study of sensory and other impersonal causative expressions in the Shina of Gilgit. (with Muhammad Amin Zia). ''Yearbook of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 2005''. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp 165–188. *Where do Compound Verbs Come from? And where are they Going?. In Bhaskararao, P., and K.V. Subbarao, Eds. ''South Asia yearbook 2001: Papers from the symposium on South Asian languages: contact, convergence and typology''. Delhi: SAGE Publications. Pp. 101–30. *The compound verb in Chinese and Hindi-Urdu and the plausibility of macro linguistic areas. (with Hsin-hsin Liang). In ''Old and New Perspectives on South Asian Languages: Grammar and Semantics'', Colin Masica, Ed. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. pp. 105–126. *Kesar of Layul: A Central Asian Epic in the Shina of Gultari. In ''Studies in Pakistani Popular Culture''. Wm. Hanaway and Wilma Heston, Eds. Lahore: Sang-e-Meel and Lok Virsa. pp. 121–183. *The Emergence of Perfective Aspect in Indo-Aryan. In ''Approaches to Grammaticalization''. Vol. 2. B. Heine and E. Traugott, Eds. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. pp. 59–89. , 9789027228994 *A Note on Expressions of Involuntary Experience in the Shina of Skardu. ''Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies'' 53:77-82. *The Marriage of Heroines and the Definition of a Literary Area in South and Central Asia. In ''Aryan and Non-Aryan in India'', M. M. Deshpande and P. E. Hook, Eds., Karoma. 1979. pp. 35–54. *Linguistic Areas: Getting at the Grain of History. In ''Festschrift for Henry Hoenigswald, On the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday''. George Cardona and Norman H. Zide, Eds. Tuebingen: Gunter Narr Verlag. pp. 155–168. , 9783878083658 *''Hindi Structures: Intermediate Level''. Ann Arbor: Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan. 1979. *''The Compound Verb in Hindi''. Ann Arbor: Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan. 1974.

References

External links

*Competition between vectored verbs and factored verbs (複合動詞における Vector 動詞と Factor 動詞の競合について

*Manetta, Emily. 2011. ''Peripheries in Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu: The Syntax of Discourse-driven Movement''. John Benjamins

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