Hans Hock
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Hans Henrich Hock is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Sanskrit at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
His research interests include general historical and comparative linguistics, as well as the linguistics of Sanskrit. The scope of his current courseload covers general historical linguistics, Indo-European linguistics, Sanskrit, diachronic sociolinguistics, pidgins and creoles, and the history of linguistics. He has served on the Undergraduate Program Committee of the Department of Linguistics since 1993.
Hock holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Yale University, is fluent in German and English, and can read, speak, and write Sanskrit. He can read and speak a number of other languages—both modern and extinct—with varying ability.
[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)
