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Hans Henrich Hock | |
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| Born | 26 September 1938 Germany |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Yale University |
| 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 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.
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. He has served on the Undergraduate Program Committee of the Department of Linguistics since 1993.
