Professor Hans Henrich Hock

[ Contact Information | Educational Background | Employment History | Cooperating Faculty | Teaching | Administrative | Research Interests | Degree Committees and Advising | Teaching Evaluation | Conference Organization and Planning | Invited Talks | Academic Honors | Committee Work at UIUC | Computer-related | Public Service | Memberships | Languages | Bibliography | Photograph ]
 

Contact Information

    Department of Linguistics
    4088 Foreign Languages Building
    University of Illinois
    707 S. Mathews
    Urbana, IL 61801 (USA)
    Tel. (217) 333-0357/333-3563
    Fax: (217) 333-3466

    E-mail: hhhock@staff.uiuc.edu
 

Educational Background

  • Universität München (1959-61): English and German philology
  • Freie Universität Berlin (1961-62): Germanic philology
  • Northwestern University (1962-63): Linguistics; M.A. 1964
  • Yale University (1963-67): Linguistics; Ph.D. 1971
 

Employment History

  • Northwestern University (1962-1963): Teaching Assistant in German
  • Tuskegee University (Summer 1964): Instructor in German
  • University of Illinois, Department of Linguistics (1967-present): Instructor (1967-1971), Assistant Professor (1971-1974), Associate Professor (1974-1987), Professor (since 1987); current position: Professor of Linguistics and Sanskrit.
  • University of Pennsylvania (Spring 1972): Visiting Lecturer in Linguistics
  • Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (Fall 1987): Visiting Fulbright Lecturer in Linguistics
  • Ohio State University (Summer 1993): Teaching faculty, 1993 Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America
 

Cooperating Faculty etc.

    Joint appointments in Classics and English as an International Language; Cooperating faculty, French and Germanic Departments; Member, Center for Russian and East European Studies and Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
 

Teaching Experience

  1. Courses currently taught: General historical linguistics (introductory, advanced, seminars); diachronic phonology and syntax; Introduction to Indo-European linguistics; Sanskrit language and linguistics; Vedic and Classical Sanskrit texts; sociolinguistics from a diachronic perspective; pidgins and creoles; history of linguistics; independent-study courses on Gothic (comparative Germanic), Old English, Old Irish, Indo-European linguistic paleography.
  2. Courses taught in the past: Indo-European linguistics (seminars), Germanic linguistics; comparative grammar of Greek and Latin; Lithuanian; Balto-Slavic comparative phonology; German language; applied linguistics.
  3. Course development: Courses in Sanskrit language and linguistics and in Indo-European and general historical linguistics. This includes reorganization of offerings in historical linguistics, especially development of an elementary undergraduate course meeting the campus-wide General Education requirement in Historical and Philosophical Perspectives, successful development and teaching of a "Discovery Course" section of this course for incoming freshmen, production of new visual materials, development of a course "handbook" with exercises etc., commissioning of a web-page version of the "handbook".
 

Administrative Experience, University of Illinois

  • Director (since 1996), Summer 1999 Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, to be held at the University of Illinois.
  • Acting Head, Department of Linguistics, Summer 1977, 1979, 1994.
  • Acting Director, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, 1996-1997, Associate Director 1997-. (Among other activtivies, organized, in cooperation with members of the Program, a lecture series, "India 50", and other events in recognition of India's 50th anniversary of independence; helped develop an India Studies fundraising initiative whose ultimate goal is a rotating professorship; with cooperation of History, George A. Miller Foundation, College of LAS, International Programs and Studies, and ACDIS, succeeded in securing funds for bringing Professor Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and a recognized scholar in his own right, to our campus in fall 1997 as George A. Miller Visiting Professor; successfully concluded negotiations on an exchange program with Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India; with faculty from Eastern Illinois and Illinois State, initiated developments toward a consortium between EIU, ISU, and UIUC.)
  • Associate Director, Center for Asian Studies, 1982-1983; Acting Associate Director, Center for Asian Studies, 1981-1982. (Responsible for South and West Asia; initiated administrative independence for that component of the Center; successful in getting Foreign Language Area Fellowships reinstated for South Asia.)
  • Graduate Program Coordinator, Department of Linguistics, 1991-1996. (Responsible for advising new graduate students and for monitoring the progress of all graduate students (about 100), from the time they enter the department to completion of their program. Instituted computerized methods of keeping track of students' progress. As Graduate Program Coordinator, I was chair of the Student Examination and Evaluation Committee which decides on whether students are to be admitted into the Ph.D. program. To maintain the quality of our graduate program and keep its size in manageable proportions I also participated in the Admissions and Fellowships Committee; to assure that there are no conflicts between required courses for new students I serve on the Timetable Committee.)
  • Undergraduate Program Committee, 1993 -. Chair 1995 -1996. (With Elmer Antonsen, Head of Linguistics, developed proposals for a new Minor in linguistics, encouraged the development of new Major and Minor programs in selected non-western languages and linguistics, and prepared an undergraduate brochure.)
  • Language Coordinator, Department of Linguistics, 1972-1977. (Responsible for supervising the program in non-western language teaching (at that time Hindi, Persian, Modern Hebrew, Arabic, Modern Greek, Swahili, Yoruba); ensured that the South and West Asian language programs remained in Linguistics and under the supervision of linguists; stimulated development of new teaching materials, especially for Swahili.)
  • Assistant Director, 1978, for the Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, Summer 1978. (Special responsibilities: coordination of financial aid; organize meeting on South Asian linguistics.)
  • Chair, Evaluation Committee of the Head, Department of Slavic, Spring 1992.
  • (See also below under Committee Work and Editorial Work at the University of Illinois.)
 

Research Interests

    General historical and comparative linguistics (all areas), comparative and diachronic syntax of Indo-European languages (especially Sanskrit/Indo-Aryan, Germanic, Latin); Sanskrit linguistics (synchronic and diachronic, syntax, phonology, language contact, sociolinguistics; Vedic, modern spoken Sanskrit); convergence phenomena; clitics, prosody, and the phonology/syntax interface.
 

Degree Committee Membership and Thesis Advising

(An asterisk indicates thesis directorship)
  1. Ph.D. committees at the University of Illinois (Departmental designation for Linguistics not marked):
    1. Completed committees:
      Lee Becker (Slavic), Esther Bentur, Tej Bhatia, Maria Carreira, Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino, Richard Cervin*, Thomas Cravens (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese), Susan Donaldson, Laura Downing, Karen Dudas, Miguel Galindo (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese), Timothy Habick*, Wayne Harbert (Germanic), Mwamba T. Kapanga, Iwona Kraska-Szlenk, Sang Oak Lee, Carol Leibiger (Germanic), Patrick Marlow*, Terrence C. McCormick (Germanic), Margie O'Bryan*, Elizabeth Pearce*, Pilar Prieto (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese), Daniel P. Quinlin (Germanic), Nalini Rau-Murthy, Vesna Radanovic-Kocic*, Steven Schäufele*, Jesse Robert Smith*, Han Sohn, David Stein, Alexandra Steinbergs, David Stillman (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese), Sarah Tsiang*, Wen-Chiu Tu, William Wallace*, Maurice Wong
    2. Pending committees:
      Irja Alho, Zoann Branstine, Shu-Fen Chen*, James Kapper*, Mithilesh Mishra, Yasuko Suzuki*

  2. Ph.D. committees outside the University of Illinois:
    S. R. Savithri (University of Mysore, India; External Reader)
    Lieve van de Walle (University of Antwerp, Belgium; External Member, Ph.D. Defense Committee)
    Richard Scherl (Anthropology, University of Chicago; External Member, Ph.D. Committee)

  3. M.A. committees, University of Illinois:
    Sona Janjigian (MA thesis advisor), Jesse Robert Smith (MA thesis advisor), April Snyder (French), Kent Lee (MA thesis advisor)

  4. M.A. committees outside the University of Illinois:
    Sarah R. Rose (Memorial University of Newfoundland; External Reader)

  5. B.A. Honors Thesis advising and evaluation, University of Illinois:
    (An asterisk indicates primary advisorship)
    Alexander Francis*, Steven Peters*, Karen Rosen (co-advisor), Derick Gregg*, William F. Hodgett*, Gregory Roberts*, Kimberli Roan (thesis co-evaluator), Serene Chan (thesis co-evaluator), Sonny Vu*

  6. Undergraduate honors and independent study project advisor, University of Illinois:
    Brooke Anderson (James Scholar Paper, Fall 1996), Rebecca Niehus (Independent Study project, Fall 1997)
 

Teaching Evaluation

    Included in 'Incomplete Listing of Excellent Teachers' for: Linguistics 302, Fall 1978, Spring 1979, Fall 1984 ('Outstanding Teacher'), Spring 1989; Ling. 403 [History of Sanskrit language], Spring 1974; Linguistics 411, Fall 1978, Fall 1985, Fall 1993 ('Outstanding Teacher'); Sanskrit 201, Fall 1991, Sanskrit 201, Fall 1993 ('Outstanding Teacher'); Linguistics 412, Spring 1993, Linguistics 310, Spring 1996; Sanskrit 202, Spring 1996 ('Outstanding Teacher').
 

Conference Organization and Planning, Session Chair, etc.

Conference Organizer:

  • Co-Organizer, Conference on South Asian Languages and Linguistics, University of Illinois, July 1978.
  • Co-Founder/Member, U.S./International Planning Committee, International Conferences on South Asian Languages and Linguistics, 1979-1982.
  • Chair, Planning Committees, First, Fifth, Eighth, and Thirteenth South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtables (SALA), Urbana, IL, 1979, 1983, 1986, and 1991.
  • Member, Planning Committees, Second, Sixth, Ninth, Tenth SALAs, Urbana (IL), Austin (TX), Cornell/ Syracuse (NY), Seattle (WA), 1980, 1984, 1987, 1988.
  • Member, Planning Committee, Second Symposium on Germanic Linguistics, October 1986, Urbana.
  • Chair, Planning Committee, 25th-Anniversary Celebrations, Department of Linguistics, 1990-91; organized special lecture series by former students, fall 1990; also stimulated three conferences held 1991 at the University of Illinois in celebration of the anniversary: The Organization of Phonology: Features and Domains (2-4 May), organized by Charles W. Kisseberth et al.; The 13th South Asian Languages and Linguistics Roundtable (25-27 May), organized by Hans Henrich Hock et al.; Linguistics and Computation: Computational Linguistics and the Foundations of Linguistic Theory (13-15 June), organized by Jerry Morgan et al.

Session Organizer:

    Session on Functional Phonology, Perspectives on Language Conference, University of Louisville, May 1976; Panel on Vedic Syntax, 5th SALA, Urbana, IL, 1983; Panel on Absolutives and Related Structures in South Asian Languages, 7th SALA, Ann Arbor, MI, 1985; Symposium on Sanskrit Syntax, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th SALAs, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989.

Workshop Organizer:

    Workshop on Historical Linguistics (with B. Joseph) and Workshop on Indigenous American Languages (with L. Campbell), Summer 1993 Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, Ohio State University.

Invited Session Chair:

    Annual Meeting, American Oriental Society (1977, 1986, 1990); Tenth Anniversary Meeting of the Dravidian Linguistics Society, Delhi, 1980; Third International Conference on South Asian Languages and Linguistics, Mysore, 1982; Fourth SALA, Syracuse, NY, 1982; Symposium on Language Maintenance and Language Shift, Syracuse, NY, 1985; International Seminar on 'Theoretical Approaches to Language Variation', 1989, Delhi University; World Sanskrit Conference, Vienna, August-September 1990; Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Kiel, 1991; South Asia Meeting, Wisconsin, 1991; 11th East Coast Indo-European Conference, 1992; 15th SALA, Iowa City, Iowa, 1993; Aryan and Non-Aryan in South Asia: Evidence, Interpretation and Ideology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1996; 10th World Sanskrit Conference, Bangalore, India, 1997; International Seminar on "Nulls", Delhi University, 1997; International Seminar on Indology-Past, Present, Future, University of Puna, India, 1997.

Invited Discussant:

  • Panel on 'Kim anena sa3msk™rtena' and Panel on 'Languages of Northern Pakistan …', 1993 South Asia Meeting, Madison, WI.
  • Third Workshop on Comparative Linguistics, 12-13 November 1994, Purdue University.
  • International Seminar on 'Ideology and Status of Sanskrit in India and Asia', International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden (NL), November 1994.
  • Panel on 'Variation in Hindi', South Asia Meeting, Madison, WI, October 1995.
 

Invited Talks (an asterisk (*) indicates a talk delivered in Sanskrit)

  • Summer 1973 (India): Central Institutes of (a) Hindi, (b) English and Foreign Languages, (c) Indian Languages; Delhi University Linguistics Department; Linguistic Circle of Hyderabad.
  • 1974 Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington.
  • 1975 Kentucky Interdisciplinary Conference on Linguistics, Louisville.
  • February 1980, Ohio State University Linguistics Department.
  • 1980-81 (India): Delhi University Linguistics Department; Abhinav Gupta Sansthan, Lucknow University; Nawal Kishore Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya, Lucknow*; Uttar Pradesh Sanskrit Pracarini Sabha, Lucknow*; Department of Sanskrit, Lucknow University*; Department of Education, Varanasi Sanskrit University*; Department of Sanskrit, Kashi Vidyapeeth, Varanasi*; Uttar Pradesh Sanskrit Samiti, Lucknow*; Surabharati Sanskrit Samiti, Hyderabad*.
  • January 1982, Government Sanskrit College, Indore, India*.
  • March 1983, Association for Asian Studies Meeting, Panel on South Asia as a Linguistic Area, San Francisco.
  • April 1984, The Semantics of Participant Roles: South Asia and Adjacent Areas, University of Chicago.
  • May 1985, Symposium on Language Maintenance and Language Shift, Syracuse University.
  • March 1986, Linguistics Programs, Syracuse University and SUNY at Stony Brook.
  • Invited for May 1986 International Conference on Historical Dialectology, Pozna5n, Poland. (Participation canceled because of nuclear disaster in Chernobyl.)
  • October 1986, Indo-Aryan diachronic phonology, University of Washington, Seattle.
  • March 1987, Convergence and dialectology: Europe and beyond. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
  • August 1987-January 1988 (India; a total of 38 talks): LokabhaaSaapracaarasamitiH (New Delhi)*, Osmania University (Hyderabad), Hyderabad University, Tirupati Sanskrit Vidyapeeth*, Hinduu Sevaa PratiSThaanam (Madras, Bangalore, Coimbatore)*, Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute (Madras)*, École Française d'Extrême Orient (Pondicherry), Kamaraj University (Madurai), University of Kerala (Trivandrum), University of Bangalore, Tata Institute (Bangalore), Central Institute of Indian Languages (Mysore), Bharatiyar University (Coimbatore), International Centre for Ayurveda (Coimbatore)*, Centre for Advanced Study of Sanskrit (Pune University)*, Deccan College (Pune), Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi), Delhi University, Mandakini (Delhi)*, Uttar Pradesh Sanskrit Samiti (Lucknow)*, Central Hindi Institute (Agra).
  • June 1988, Germanistisches und Sprachwissenschaftliches Seminar, Universität Heidelberg.
  • June 1988, Institut für Indogermanische und Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Universität München.
  • November 1988, Conference on the Experiencer Subject in South Asian Languages, Madison, WI.
  • March 1989, International Seminar on 'Theoretical Approaches to Language Variation', Department of Linguistics, Delhi University.
  • April 1989, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, and Aligarh Muslim University.
  • June 1989, International Vedic Workshop, Harvard University.
  • June 1989, Eighth East Coast Indo-European Conference, Harvard University.
  • June 1990, Ninth East Coast Indo-European Conference, University of Pennsylvania.
  • November 1990, Panel on 'Language Variation and Linguistic Identity', 19th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, WI.
  • July 1991, Tenth East Coast Indo-European Conference, Oxford University (UK).
  • July 1991, Institute for Natural Language Processing, Universität Tübingen, and South Asia Seminar, Universität Freiburg.
  • November 1991, Panel on 'Agreement in South Asian Languages', 20th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, WI.
  • January 1992, Chicago Linguistic Society, University of Chicago.
  • February 1992, Linguistics Department Colloquium and South Asian Studies Program, University of Iowa.
  • May 1992, 11th East-Coast Indo-European Conference, University of Georgia.
  • November 1992, Panel on 'Sanskrit today', 21st Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, WI.
  • March 1993: University of Delhi (3 talks), University of Hyderabad (6 talks), Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi) (2 talks).
  • April 1993, Invited Speaker, General Session, 29th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society.
  • June 1993, 12th East-Coast Indo-European Conference, Cornell University.
  • June 1994, School of Oriental and African Studies (London), Indological Institute (Hamburg), Forschungsschwerpunkt Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (Berlin), Indological Institute (Freiburg), Seminar für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (Tübingen).
  • November 1994, Panel on Vedic Studies Today, South Asia Meeting, Madison, WI.
  • November 1994, International Seminar on 'Ideology and Status of Sanskrit in India and Asia', International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden (NL).
  • October 1995, Panel on Sanskrit and Vedic studies, South Asia, Meeting, Madison, WI.
  • June 1996, East Coast Indo-European Conference, Yale University.
  • October 1996, Aryan and Non-Aryan in South Asia: Evidence, Interpretation and Ideology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
  • November 1996, Workshop on Language Contact, Ohio State University.
  • January 1997, International Seminar on "Nulls", Delhi University.
  • January 1997, International Seminar on Indology-Past, Present, Future, University of Poona.
  • January 1997, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
  • February 1997, Ohio State University.
  • April 1997, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
  • January 1998, International Seminar on "Agreement", Delhi University
 

Academic Honors, Fellowships, Grants, Consultancies, Editorial work, etc.

  1. Grants from Organizations outside the University of Illinois:
    • 1963-66 Yale University Fellowships.
    • 1966-67 Yale University Sterling Predoctoral Fellowship.
    • 1974-75, American Philosophical Society: Research on Sanskrit morphology.
    • Winter 1979-80, American Council of Learned Societies, American Institute of Indian Studies, and University of Illinois Scholars Travel Fund: Second International Conference on South Asian Languages and Linguistics, Hyderabad, India, and research on spoken Sanskrit in Uttar Pradesh.
    • 1980-81, American Institute of Indian Studies plus sabbatical leave/leave of absence without pay from the University of Illinois: Research on the use of spoken Sanskrit in Uttar Pradesh.
    • Winter 1981-82, American Institute of Indian Studies and the University of Illinois Scholars Travel Fund: Third International Conference on South Asian Languages and Linguistics, Mysore, India, and research on spoken Sanskrit in Ujjain, Mysore, and Delhi.
    • Fall 1985, American Council of Learned Societies: 7th International Conference for Historical Linguistics, Pavia, Italy. (Declined for health reasons.)
    • 1987 Fulbright Lectureship in Linguistics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
    • Spring 1989, American Institute of Indian Studies: International Seminar on 'Theoretical Approaches to Language Variation', 21-23 March 1988, Delhi University.
  2. University of Illinois Awards:
    • Summer 1970 research grant, Center for Asian Studies.
    • Summer 1972 and 1973 University of Illinois Faculty Fellowships.
    • Summer 1973, Office of International Programs and Studies, and Center for International Comparative Studies: Research/orientation trip to India.
    • August-September 1978, Center for International Comparative Studies: Exploratory research on the use of spoken Sanskrit in Uttar Pradesh, India.
    • Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, Spring 1994.
    • 1996/1997 Alumni Discretionary Support Award, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
    • Spring 1993 Arnold O. Beckman Research Award for work on 'Distant Linguistic Relationship'.
    • 1974-77, 1979-80, 1982-83, 1986-87, 1988-89, 1989-90, 1990-91, Fall 1994, Spring 1996, 1996-97 University of Illinois Research Board grants.
    • 1976, 1977, 1978, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996 University of Illinois Scholars Travel Fund awards.
    • 1982, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1996 Center for Asian Studies/Program in South and West Asian Studies travel awards.
    • 1997 Travel Grant, MUCIA and Study Abroad, for concluding negotiations on an exchange program with Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
  3. Editorial work:
    (For edited individual volumes, see the Bibliography.)
    • Invited by Mouton de Gruyter to be Senior Editor of a new series of introductory books on linguistics for general audiences and undergraduate students, tentatively entitled Introduction to Linguistics, 1995. (Prepared outlines for in-house discussion on the intended nature and scope of the series, including core volumes on general and historical linguistics; identified possible authors for the core volumes and some of the other volumes; approached possible authors for the core volumes; and identified possible associate editors for the series and contacted these editors. Asked to be relieved of this position in December 1996, because of the pressure of other commitments.)
    • Editor, Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, 1988 - 1994. (Responsible for changing over to entirely computer-generated production and standardizing the format (1988); switched over to serif-font New York for better readability under reduction (1991); developed diacritic font (Lingam II) for compatibility with New York, with special symbols for a wide range of languages (1991); through active solicitation increased the number of reviews (1989 and subsequent years); introduced the following new features: Review articles (1988), Squibs (1989), Cumulative indices (1990), 'Recent Books' (brief descriptions of publications received, 1991), Book Notices (1992); responsible for bringing accounting procedures under control (1988 and subsequent years).
    • Member, Editorial Board, and Review Editor, Studies in Language Learning, 1976-ca. 1980 (when the journal ceased publication).
    • Editor, Newsletter of the Department of Linguistics, 1970-1980, 1981-1984.
    • Member, Language Review Committee, Linguistic Society of America, 1976-1978, 1981-1983.
    • Referee for Language (1984, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993), Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (1990, 1992), World Englishes (1987-1988), Linguistics (1993-1994), Linguistic Inquiry (1997).
  4. Other Honors, etc.:
    • Honorary Advisor, MS University of Baroda (India) Linguistic Association, 1997.
    • Honored as Vidyaasaagara (lit. "Ocean of Knowledge"), 8 January 1997, by Mandakini, a society for the promotion of Sanskrit, at the 10th World Sanskrit Conference, Bangalore, India.
    • Member, Ad-hoc committee of the Linguistic Society of America for 75th Anniversary Celebrations, 1996- .
    • Listed in German Indology, 1984, 1988, 1996.
    • Listed in the DAAD/Monatshefte Directory of German Studies, 1990 (publ. 1991).
    • Listed in Who's Who in the Midwest, 24th ed., 1994-1995.
    • Invited faculty, 1993 Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, Ohio State University.
    • Member, Committee on Linguistic Institutes and Fellowships, Linguistic Society of America, 1978.
    • Consultant, 'Experts Meeting' to evaluate work done in the Delhi University Linguistics Department under a grant from the Indian University Grants Commission, April 1981.
    • Referee for grant proposals, National Science Foundation (1987, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995), Guggenheim (1987), National Endowment for the Humanities (1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (1989, 1990, 1994).
    • Referee for proposals to the University of Illinois Research Board, 1985-present.
 

Committee Work and related activities at the University of Illinois

  • Member, Advisory/Executive Committees, Department of Linguistics, 1974-1976, 1988-1992.
  • Member, Executive Committee, Unit for Foreign Language Study and Research, 1972-1977.
  • Member, Executive Committee, Program for South and West Asian Studies, 1988-1989, 1993-1995.
  • Member, Urbana-Champaign Senate, 1974-1976.
  • Member, MUCIA International Program Development Travel Grants Committee, Fall 1997.
  • Member, Courses and Programs Committees, School of Humanities, 1976-1979, 1983-1985 (Chair 1984-1985); Graduate College (1978-1980); College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 1982-1984 (Chair 1983-1984).
  • Member, Committee of Committees, School of Humanities (1985).
  • Member, DAAD (Student) Fellowship Selection Committees, Graduate College, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1984.
  • Member, Humanities Scholarships and Honors Committee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 1994-1996
  • Trustee for the University of Illinois, American Institute of Indian Studies, 1982-1984, 1989-1993.
  • Faculty representative for small group meetings with prospective undergraduate students and their parents, New Student Orientation, June 1995, June 1996.
  • Organization of visits to the University of Illinois by distinguished outside speakers: K. R. Narayanan, Ambassador of India to the United States (1981); I. K. Gujral, former Ambassador of India to the Soviet Union (1981); Professor Ram Karan Sharma, Director, Kendriya Hindi Shikshan Mandal, former Vice Chancellor, Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, Banaras, India (1989); Professor O. v. Hinüber, Chair, Indology, University of Freiburg, Germany (1991, 1994), Professor Rahul Peter Das, Modern Indology, University of Halle-Wittenberg (1995).
  • (Plus membership, chairing of numerous committees in the Department of Linguistics, including the two most active committees on Student Evaluation and Admissions and Fellowships)
 

Computer-related Activities

  • Developed and revised a font 'Lingam' (= Linguistic American) for the Macintosh Computer, 1986-1987. Font is devised for the transcription of various Indo-European and South Asian languages.
  • Preparation, together with Steven Helmreich, of a computer program for teaching devanaagarii to beginning Sanskrit students, under a grant from the UIUC Language Learning Lab, Summer 1988.
  • Revised font, LingamII, 1991. New font can be used for the transcription of a larger set of languages, includes more IPA-type phonetic symbols, and has a thoroughly revised keyboard organization.
  • Revised font, Nagari, 1991. An improved version of the font UBC Nagri, with more of the compound symbols needed for word processing in Sanskrit. --- Further revisions, Spring 1994 and 1995.
  • Revised font, Tamiz, 1992. An improved version of George Hart's (Berkeley) font Tamil, with better shading of 24pt. characters and improved keyboard layout.
  • Produced an extended screen font for the font New York, with full indication of all the symbols that are available in laser printing from Microsoft Word, 1993.
  • Produced font, Lingam Times (an adaptation of LingamII), for use with the laser font Times (in sizes 12, 13, 24, and 26), Spring 1994.
  • Produced a 13-pt. screen font for the laser font Times, Spring 1994.
  • Produced a 13-pt. screen font for the laser font Symbol, Summer 1994.
  • Produced "xLingam", a TrueType, revised and expanded version of Lingam Times, Summer 1997.
  • Produced NagariTru, a beta(+) TrueType version of Nagari, Summer/Fall 1997.
 

Public Service

  • Member, Executive Committee, Cosmopolitan Club, Champaign, IL (1972-1975).
  • Assistant Soccer Coach (1981-1984), Soccer Coach (1985, 1986), Champaign Park District.
  • Presentations on Sanskrit, Development of Writing, History of English, Phonetics, Greek, Latin at Dr. Howard Elementary School Gifted Program (4th/5th Grades), Champaign, Fall and Spring 1985/1986, Spring 1987.
  • Presentation on Sanskrit and other South Asian languages, University High School, Urbana, 1987.
  • Presentation on Sanskrit: Past, present, and future. Indian Cultural Society of Urbana-Champaign, February 1990.
  • (Foreign Language) 'Font Keeper', Champaign-Urbana Macintosh Users Group, 1986-1988.
  • 'Introduction to Language History', presentations at University High School, Urbana, February 1991. (Four talks: 'Who's afraid of Beowulf? A brief history of the English language.' 'Don't say "It's Greek to me": Greek and other relatives of English.' 'Give me some sugar, baby: Secondary relationships among languages.' 'Write on! A brief history of writing.')
  • Presentation on Sanskrit: Past, present, and future. Hindu Students Council, University of Illinois, February 1994.
 

Membership in Learned Societies

    American Association for Applied Linguistics, American Oriental Society, Fulbright Society of America, Linguistic Society of America, Linguistic Society of India (Life Member), Societas Linguistica Europaea
 

Languages

  • German (native fluency in all areas)
  • English (fluent in all areas)
  • Sanskrit (read, write, speak)
  • Hindi (some speaking, reading)
  • French, Italian, Spanish (good reading, some speaking)
  • Norwegian, Swedish, Danish (some reading)
  • Pali, Prakrit; Avestan, Old Persian; Homeric Greek; Latin; Old Irish; Gothic, Old High German, Old Saxon, Old English, Old Icelandic; Lithuanian; Old Church Slavic; Tocharian; Old French, Old Spanish; Finnish (varying reading ability or knowledge of grammatical structure and linguistic history)
 

Bibliography

(SLS = Studies in the Linguistic Sciences; IJDL = International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics; Invited publications are marked by §, refereed publications by *.)

  1. Ph.D. dissertation:
    1. The so-called Aeolic inflection of the Greek contract verbs. Yale University, 1971.

  2. (Co-)authored books:
    1. Principles of historical linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1986. (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs, 34. Also as paperback.) (pp. xii, 722)
      1a. Principles of historical linguistics; second, corrected and augmented edition. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1991. (pp. xiii, 744)
    2. 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). [Senior author, with Brian D. Joseph; as the latter acknowledges in the Preface, he joined in after about 85% of the book had been written.]

  3. (Co-)edited volumes:
    1. Germanic linguistics II: Papers from the Second Symposium on Germanic Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 3-4 October 1986. Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1988. [With E. H. Antonsen]
    2. Studies in Sanskrit syntax. Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1991. (pp. xii, 241)
    3. Stæfcræft: Studies in Germanic linguistics. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1991. (pp. viii, 217) 1991.§ [With E. H. Antonsen]
    4. Historical, Indo-European, and lexicographical studies: A festschrift for Ladislav Zgusta on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997. (pp. vi, 393)

  4. (Co-)edited special journal issues:
    1. Studies in Baltic linguistics. (= SLS 2:2) (pp. iv, 203) 1972. [With M. Kenstowicz]
    2. Papers on historical linguistics: Theory and method. (= SLS 5:2) (pp. 202) 1975. [With L. Zgusta]
    3. Papers on diachronic syntax: Six case studies. (= SLS 12:2) (pp. ii, 211) 1982.
    4. Papers from the 1986 South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable. (= SLS 17:1) (pp. i, 179) 1987.
    5. Linguistics for the nineties: Papers from a lecture series celebrating the Department's twenty-fifth anniversary. (= SLS 20:2) (pp. xiv, 214) 1990.
    6. Thirteenth South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable: Meeting Handbook. (= SLS 20:3) (pp. xiii, 157) 1991.

  5. Edited general issues of Studies in the Linguistic Sciences:
      Vol. 18:2 (pp. v, 233) 1988; 19:1 (pp. v, 193) 1989; 21:1 (pp. v, 188) 1991, 22:1 (pp. viii, 189) 1992, 23:1 (pp. v, 200) 1993

  6. Refereed and invited journal articles and book chapters:
    (Papers in SLS tend to be 'lightly refereed'; papers in volumes edited by me are not included here.)
    1. On the phonemic status of Germanic i and e. Issues in linguistics: Papers in honor of Henry and Renée Kahane, ed. by B. B. Kachru et al., 319-351. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973.§
    2. Historical change and synchronic structure: The case of the Sanskrit vocative singular of aa-stems. Mid-America Linguistics Conference Papers, 1972, ed. by J. H. Battle & J. Schweitzer, 193-206. Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, 1973.§
      Reprinted in IJDL 4.29-42, 1975.§
    3. Exceptions and synchronic analogy. SLS 3:1.81-101, 1973.*
      Reprinted in IJDL 3.321-335, 1974§ and Modern studies in Sanskrit, ed. by R. Singh et al., 75-92. New Delhi: Bahri, 1988.§
    4. Is there an a-epenthesis in Sanskrit? SLS 3:2.43-58, 1973.*
    5. Historical change and synchronic structure: The case of the Sanskrit root nouns. Toward tomorrow's linguistics, ed. by R. W. Shuy & C.-J. N. Bailey, 329-42. Georgetown University Press, 1974.§
      Reprinted in IJDL 4.215-228, 1975.§
    6. On the Indo-Iranian accusative plural of consonant stems. Journal of the American Oriental Society 94.73-95, 1974.*
    7. On the non-automatic relationship between Vedic ablaut and accent. Papers from the Mid-America Linguistics Conference, 1973, 11-32. University of Iowa, Department of Linguistics, 1974.*
    8. On the judicious application of rules. Papers from the 11th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 272-278, 1975.*
    9. Current trends in historical linguistics. Lektos 2:1.25-48,1976.§
    10. Final weakening and related phenomena. Mid-America Linguistics Conference papers, 1975, ed. by F. Ingemann, 215-259. University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics, 1976.§
    11. The sociolinguistic position of Sanskrit in pre-Muslim South Asia. Studies in Language Learning 1:2.106-38, 1976. [With R. Pandharipande]*§
    12. Sanskrit in the pre-Islamic context of South Asia. Aspects of sociolinguistics in South Asia, ed. by B. B. Kachru & S. N. Sridhar, 11-25. (= International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 16.) 1978. [Condensed version of the preceding item; with R. Pandharipande.]*§
    13. Retroflexion rules in Sanskrit. South Asian Languages Analysis 1.47-62, 1979.*
    14. Archaisms, morphophonemic metrics, or variable rules in the Rig-Veda? SLS 10:1.59-69, 1980.*
    15. Sanskrit causative syntax: A diachronic study. SLS 11:2.9-33, 1981.*
    16. SambhaaSitasaMskRtasyaadhunikii sthitiH. ('The present-day status of spoken Sanskrit.') Bhaasvatii, Research Journal of the Sanskrit Department, Kashi Vidyapeeth, Varanasi, 6.61-64, 1981.§
    17. AUX-cliticization as a motivation for word order change. SLS 12:1.91-101, 1982.*
    18. The Sanskrit passive: Synchronic behavior and diachronic change. Studies in South Asian languages and linguistics, ed. by P. J. Mistry, 127-137. (= South Asian Review, 6.) 1982.§
    19. Language-death phenomena in Sanskrit: Grammatical evidence for attrition in contemporary spoken Sanskrit. SLS 13:2.21-35, 1983.*
    20. (Pre-)Rig-Vedic convergence of Indo-Aryan with Dravidian? Another look at the evidence. SLS 14: 1.89-108, 1984.*
    21. Pronoun fronting and the notion 'verb-second' position in Beowulf. Germanic Linguistics: Papers from a Symposium at the University of Chicago, April 24, 1985, ed. by J. T. Faarlund, 70-86. Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1985.§
    22. Regular metathesis. Linguistics 23.529-46, 1985.*
    23. Sanskrit double-object constructions: Will the real object please stand up? Praci-Bhasha-Vijnan: Journal of Indian Linguistics 12.50-70, 1985.§
    24. Transitivity as a gradient feature: Synchronic and diachronic evidence from Indo-Aryan, especially Sanskrit. Proceedings of the Conference on Participant Roles in South Asia and Adjacent Areas, ed. by A. K. Zide et al.. 247-263. Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1985.§
    25. Yes, Virginia, syntactic reconstruction is possible. SLS 15:1.49-60, 1985.*
    26. Compensatory lengthening: In defense of the concept 'mora'. Folia Linguistica 20.431-460, 1986.*
    27. "P-oriented" constructions in Sanskrit. South Asian languages: structure, convergence, and diglossia, ed. by Bh. Krishnamurti et al., 15-26. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1986.§*
    28. Voice, mood, and the gerundive (kRtya ) in Sanskrit. Indologica Taurinensia 13.81-102, 1986.*
    29. Reduced-clause and clause-union absolutives and participles in Vedic Prose. Select Papers from SALA-7, ed. by E. Bashir et al., 182-198. Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1987.§
    30. Regular contact dissimilation. A Festschrift for Henry Hoenigswald, ed. by G. Cardona & N. Zide, 143-153. Tübingen: Narr, 1987.§
    31. Historical implications of a dialectological approach to convergence. Historical dialectology, ed. by J. Fisiak, 283-328. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1988.§
    32. Spoken Sanskrit in Uttar Pradesh: A sociolinguistic profile. Lokaprajñaa: Journal of Orientology 2.1-24 , 1988.§
    33. Research on Sanskrit syntax: A status report. New horizons of research in Indology, ed. by V. N. Jha, 90-107. Pune: Centre for Advanced Study of Sanskrit, University of Poona, 1989.§
    34. Oblique subjects in Sanskrit? Experiencer subjects in South Asian languages, ed. by M. K. Verma & K. P. Mohanan, 119-139. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1990.§
    35. Dialects, diglossia, and diachronic phonology in early Indo-Aryan. Studies in the historical phonology of Asian languages, ed. by W. G. Boltz & M. C. Shapiro, 119-159. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1991.§
    36. On the origin and early development of the sacred Sanskrit syllable om. Perspectives on Indo-European language, culture, and religion: Studies in honor of Edgar C. Polomé 1.89-110. (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monographs, 7) 1991.§
    37. Causation in language change. Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, ed. by W. Bright, 1.228-231. London & New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.§
    38. Initial strengthening. Phonologica 1988: Proceedings of the 6th International Phonology Meeting, ed. by W. U. Dressler et al., 101-110. Cambridge: University Press, 1991.*§
    39. Spoken Sanskrit in Uttar Pradesh: Profile of a dying prestige language. Dimensions of sociolinguistics in South Asia: Papers in memory of Gerald Kelley, ed. by E. C. Dimmock, B. B. Kachru, & Bh. Krishnamurti, 247-260. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992.§
    40. Is Sanskrit dying? The linguistic landscape, ed. by Rukmini Bhaya Nair, 17-20. (= Seminar, 391.) New Delhi, 1992.§
    41. Were R and L velar in early Sanskrit? Vidyaa-Vratin: Professor A. M. Ghatage felicitation volume, ed. by V. N. Jha, 69-94. (Sri Garib Dass Oriental Series, 160.) Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications, 1992.§
    42. Reconstruction and syntactic typology: A plea for a different approach. Explanation in historical linguistics, ed. by G. W. Davis & G. K. Iverson, 105-121. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1992.*§
    43. A note on English and modern Sanskrit. The extended family: English in global bilingualism (Studies in honor of Braj B. Kachru), ed. by L. E. Smith & S. N. Sridhar, 153-171. (= World Englishes 11:2-3.) 1992.§
    44. A critical examination of some early Sanskrit passages alleged to indicate dialectal diversity. Comparative-historical linguistics: Indo-European and Finno-Ugric: Papers in honor of Oswald Szemerényi III, ed. by B. Brogyanyi & R. Lipp, 217-232. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins. 1993.§
    45. Some peculiarities of Vedic-Prose relative clauses. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens 35 Supplement 1993:9-29, 1993*§
    46. Swallow tales: Chance and the "world etymology" MALIQ'A 'swallow, throat'. Papers from the 29th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 1.215-238, 1993§
    47. Discourse linkage in Sanskrit narratives with special emphasis on the story of Nala. Papers from the Fifteenth South Asian Language Analysis Roundtable 1993, ed. by A. Davison and F. M. Smith. Iowa City, IA: South Asian Studies Program, 117-139. 1994*§
    48. Narrative linkage in the Mahaabhaarata. Modern evaluation of the Mahaabhaarata: Prof. R. K. Sharma felicitation volume, ed. by S. P. Narang, 295-313. Delhi: Nag Publishers. 1994§
    49. Who's On First: Toward a prosodic account of P2 clitics. Approaching second: Second position clitics and related phenomena, ed. by A. Halpern and A. Zwicky, 199-270. Stanford: CSLI Publications. 1996§*
    50. Pre-Rgvedic convergence between Indo-Aryan (Sanskrit) and Dravidian? A survey of the issues and controversies. Ideology and status of Sanskrit: Contributions to the history of the Sanskrit language, ed. by J. E. M. Houben, 17-58. Leiden: Brill. 1996.*§
    51. Subversion or convergence? The issue of pre-Vedic retroflexion reconsidered. SLS 23:2.73-115.*

  7. Papers in volumes (co-)edited by me:
    1. The Baltic ee-preterit: An older aa-preterit? SLS 2:2.137-64, 1972.
    2. Problems in the synchronic derivation of the Lithuanian ee-formations. Ibid. 165-203.
    3. Substratum influence on (Rig-Vedic) Sanskrit? SLS 5:2.76-125, 1975.
    4. Clitic verbs in PIE or discourse-based verb fronting? Sanskrit sá hovaaca gáargyaH and congeners in Avestan and Homeric Greek. SLS 12:2.1-38, 1982.
    5. The Sanskrit quotative: A historical and comparative study. Ibid. 39-85.
    6. Rebracketing and relative clauses in Old English. Germanic linguistics II …, 35-54. [See section C. above.] 1988.
    7. Conjoined we stand: Theoretical implications of Sanskrit relative clauses. SLS 19:1.93-126, 1989.
    8. Causees, passive agents, or instruments? Instrumental NPs with causatives in early and later Vedic Prose. Studies in Sanskrit syntax, 71-93. [See section C. above.] 1991.
    9. Possessive agents in Sanskrit. Studies in Sanskrit syntax, ibid. 55-69.
    10. On the origin and development of relative clauses in early Germanic, with special emphasis on Beowulf. Stæfcræft: Studies in Germanic linguistics, 55-89. [See section C. above.] 1991.
    11. What's a nice word like you doing in a place like this? Syntax vs. Phonological Form. SLS 22:1.39-87, 1992.
    12. Nexus and 'extraclausality' in Vedic, or 'sa-figé' all over again: A historical (re)examination. Historical, Indo-European, and lexicographical studies …, 49-78. [See section C. above), 1997.

  8. Reviews and review articles:
    1. Review article on Anttila (1972): An introduction to historical and comparative linguistics. Language 52.202-220, 1976.§*
    2. Review article: Finiteness in Dravidian. (Steever (1988): The serial verb formation in the Dravidian languages.) SLS 18:2.211-231, 1988.
    3. Review of Fisiak (1983): A bibliography of writings for the history of the English language. World Englishes 4.290-291, 1985.§
    4. Review of Lehmann & Malkiel (1982): Perspectives on historical linguistics. Language 61.187-93, 1985.§
    5. Review of Meenakshi (1983): Epic syntax. Journal of the American Oriental Society 106.345-346, 1986.§
    6. Review of Steever (1988): The serial verb formation in the Dravidian languages. Language 65.398-405, 1989.§*
    7. Review of Hettrich (1988): Untersuchungen zur Hypotaxe im Vedischen. Language 66.606-614, 1990.§
    8. Review of Aralikatti (1989): Spoken Sanskrit in India: A study of sentence patterns. SLS 21:1.161-165, 1991.
    9. Review of Tikkanen (1987): The Sanskrit gerund: A synchronic, diachronic, and typological analysis. Kratylos 37.62-68, 1992.§
    10. Review of Abbi (1992): Reduplication in South Asian languages: An areal, typological, and historical study. SLS 23:1.169-192, 1993.
    11. Booknotice on Christel Goldap (1991): Lokale Relationen im Yukatekischen: Eine onomasiologische Studie. SLS 22:1.173-174, 1992.
    12. Booknotice on Braj B. Kachru (1992): The other tongue: English across cultures, 2nd ed. SLS 22:1.174-176, 1992.
    13. Review of Substrata versus universals in creole genesis: Papers from the Amsterdam Creole Workshop, April 1985, ed. by Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith, World Englishes 16: 2: 304-308, 1997.

  9. Other publications and technical reports:
    1. Editor, Newsletter of the Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois. 1969-1979, 1982-1983. Total number of issues: 24. (Issues range from about 10 to about 30 pages.)
    2. Position papers on the non-western languages, University of Illinois, Spring 1973:
      1. The location of the non-western languages. (pp. 7)
      2. Position paper on the status and location of the non-western languages. (pp. 4)
      3. Proposal on the reorganization of the non-western languages. (With F. K. Lehman) (pp. 2)
    3. Proposal for HEA Title VI National Resource Centers and Fellowships in International Studies, South Asian Language and Area Studies. (pp. 27 + 46 pages of appendices) 1982.
    4. Language-death phenomena in present-day spoken Sanskrit. In: Abstracts of papers presented to the Third International Conference on South Asian Languages and Linguistics, 39. Mysore, India: The National Committee for India: International Conference on South Asian Languages and Linguistics, 1982.
    5. Proposal for the Reorganization of the Center for Asian Studies into Two Successor Units --- A Center for East and Southeast Asian Studies and a Center for South and West Asian Studies, submitted to Peter Schran, Director of the Center for Asian Studies, University of Illinois. (pp. 21) 1983.
    6. Computers, Sanskrit, and Devanagari. Report on the Sixth World Sanskrit Conference. American Association for Applied Linguistics Newsletter 7:1.7-8 (1985)§
    7. A bibliography of writings on Sanskrit syntax. Studies in Sanskrit syntax, 219-241. [See section C above.] 1991 [With M. Deshpande.]
    8. Recent Books. SLS 21:1.183-188 (1991). (Unsigned)
    9. Recent Books. SLS 22:1.177-182 (1992).
    10. Recent Books. SLS 23:1.197-200 (1993)
    11. Goals for South Asia and the Middle East, University of Illinois, Spring 1997 (pp. 4)

  10. In Press/Accepted for Publication
    Papers:
    1. Aspects of Sanskrit agreement. Proceedings of the Panel on Agreement in South Asian Languages, 1991 South Asia Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin.§
    2. Chronology or genre? Problems in Vedic syntax. Proceedings of the International Vedic Workshop, Harvard University, June 1989, ed. by Michael Witzel. Harvard Oriental Series.§
    3. Genre, discourse, and syntax in Sanskrit. Textual parameters in older languages, ed. by S. Herring, P. van Reenen, & L. Schoesler. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Publication target date: 1996.
    4. NuutanasaMsk¡rtaadhyaapanaM kathaM saphalatamaM bhavet. ('How modern Sanskrit teaching might become most fruitful.') Lokaprajñaa. §
    5. Rhetorical motivations of Vedic-Prose word and clause order. Indo-Iranian Journal.*
    6. SambhaaSitasaMskRtasya surakSaam adhikRtya kiñcit. ('Remarks on the preservation of spoken Sanskrit.') Research journal of Tirupati Sanskrit Vidyapeeth (India).§
    7. Indology beyond Sanskrit --- but also including Sanskrit. Proceedings of the International Seminar on Indology---Past, Present, Future (Pune January 1997).§

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