Hans Hock

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Hans Henrich Hock is a linguist who holds a Ph.D. from Yale University.

He has done research in historical and comparative linguistics and in Sanskrit linguistics. He speaks German, English, Sanskrit and other languages.

Hock is currently a Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign teaching several classes of various aspects of Language History.

He also advises undergraduates in their linguistic endeavors at this University.

Hock is partial to Espresso Royale coffee, maintains a strong anti-chief stance, and rarely arrives to lectures on time. However, he manages to entertain his students with puns and other linguistically snappy phrases although many of his students fail to see his humor. When he is not busy, he enjoys researching unicorns, dragons and other mythological beasts that were wiped away with the flood and how these creatures show up in texts time after time.

[edit] Publications

The so-called Aeolic inflection of the Greek contract verbs. Yale University, 1971.
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).
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)