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Hans Henrich Hock | |
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| Born | 26 September 1938 Germany |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Yale University (Ph.D., 1971) Northwestern Univ. (M.A., 1964) |
| Thesis | The so-called Aeolic inflection of the Greek contract verbs (1971) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguistics |
| Sub-discipline | Indo-European studies |
| Notable works | Principles of Historical Linguistics (1991) Language History,Language Change,and Language Relationship [with Brian D. Joseph] (2009) |
Hans Henrich Hock (born 26 September 1938) is a German-born American linguist and Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Sanskrit at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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Hock holds graduate degrees from Northwestern and Yale universities. His research interests include general historical and comparative linguistics,as well as the linguistics of Sanskrit. He taught 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.
