Hans Hock

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.

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)

External links

* [http://www.linguistics.uiuc.edu/hhhock/ Personal webpage] at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Linguistics