Department of Linguistics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Hans Henrich Hock Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
Professor Emeritus of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Professor Emeritus of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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Research Interests

Historical and comparative linguistics, language contact, language and ideology, typology, phrasal prosody



Current Projects

  • Editor of the Series "The World of Linguistics"; co-editor of the volume on South Asia in that series

    • Publications

    Books

    • Hock, Hans Henrich. Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship: An Introduction to historical and comparative linguistics. Comp. Brian D. Joseph. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2009.
    • Hock, Hans Henrich. An early Upanisadic reader, with notes, glossary, and an appendix of related Vedic texts. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2007.

    Book Contributions

    • Hock, Hans Henrich. "Suprasegmental and prosodic historical phonology." Continuum Companion to Historical Linguistics. London/New York: Continuum Books, 2010. 106-113.
    • Hock, Hans Henrich. "Typology and universals." Continuum Companion to Historical Linguistics. London/New York: Continuum Books, 2010. 59-69.
    • Hock, Hans Henrich. "Default, Animacy, Avoidance." Grammatical changes in Indo-European languages. Ed. Vit Bubenik, John Hewson, and Sarah Rose. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2009.
    • Hock, Hans Henrich. "Early Germanic agreement with mixed-gender antecedents: with focus on the history of German." Proceedings of the 19th Indo-European Conference, UCLA. Ed. Karlene Bley-Jones. Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man, 2008.
    • Hock, Hans Henrich. "Dravidian Syntatic Typology: a reply to Steever." Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics. Ed. Rajendra Singh. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2008.
    • Hock, Hans Henrich. "Privileged Languages and Others in the History of Historical-Comparative Linguistics." History of Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHOLS X), 1-5 September 2005, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. Ed. Douglas A. Kibbee. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2007. 274-287.