Peter E. Hook

Peter E. Hook (born 1942) is professor emeritus in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan.[1]

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 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 North India, West India, and Pakistan: Kashmiri, Marathi, Gujarati, Rajasthani, Shina, and Sanskrit. After Jules Bloch in his La Formation de la Langue Marathe,[2] Hook was the first to realize that Kashmiri, not unlike German, has V2 word order.[3] More recent publications have refined the notion of South Asia as a linguistic area [4] as first adumbrated by Murray Emeneau [5] and - with the addition of Central Asia and Eastern Asia - expanded by Colin Masica.[6]

Publications

References

  1. "Homepage". UMICH. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  2. Bloch, Jules (1914). La Formation de le Langue Marathe.
  3. Hook (1976): Is Kashmiri an SVO language? Indian Linguistics 37: 133-142.
  4. See Hook (1987): Linguistic Areas: Getting at the Grain of History in Festschrift for Henry Hoenigswald, George Cardona and Norman H. Zide, Eds. Pp. 155-68.
  5. Emeneau, M. (1956). India as a Linguistic Area. Language 32: 3–16.
  6. Masica, Colin P. (1976). Defining a Linguistic Area: South Asia. University of Chicago Press.

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