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Hans Henrich Hock | |
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Born | 26 September 1938 |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Linguistics |
Sub-discipline | Indo-European studies |
Hans Henrich Hock (born 26 September 1938) is an American linguist and Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Sanskrit at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Hock holds an M.A. from Northwestern University (1964) and a PhD in linguistics from Yale University (1971). His research interests include general historical and comparative linguistics, as well as the linguistics of Sanskrit. He currently teaches general historical linguistics, Indo-European linguistics, Sanskrit, diachronic sociolinguistics, pidgins and creoles, and the history of linguistics. [1] He has served on the Undergraduate Program Committee of the Department of Linguistics since 1993.