Hans Henrich Hock

Hans Henrich Hock
Born (1938-09-26) 26 September 1938
Academic work
DisciplineLinguistics
Sub-disciplineIndo-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. He has served on the Undergraduate Program Committee of the Department of Linguistics since 1993.

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