CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Hans Henrich Hock

Degrees: M.A. Linguistics, Northwestern University, 1964
Ph.D. Linguistics, Yale University, 1971
D.Litt., Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, 2018
Positions: Professor of Linguistics and Sanskrit, of the Classics, of Germanic Languages and
Literatures, and in the Campus Honors Program. Emeritus 2007.
Editor, Folia Linguistics Historica, publication of the Societas Linguistica Europaea,
2004-2009
Member, Editorial Board, Folia Linguistica Historica, 2009-present
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics (2013-)
Advisory Editor, Trends in Linguistics, a major book publication series in linguistics,
Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 2002-present
Series Editor, The World of Linguistics, a publication series of Mouton de Gruyter,
Berlin, 2004-
Editor, Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, 1988 – 1994
Instructor of German, Tuskegee Institute, Summer 1964
Invited teaching in India
Visiting Fulbright Lecturer in historical linguistics, Jawharlal Nehru University, fall 1987.
Visiting Professor of Linguistics to teach historical linguistics course, Delhi University, January-
March 2005.
Invited Instructor, “Refresher Course”/Workshop on Historical Linguistics for linguistic
instructors at Indian universities, hosted by the Central Institute of Indian Languages,
Mysore, 22 January – 14 February 2009.
Instructor, “Refresher Course”/Workshop on Language Contact, Central Institute of Indian
Languages, Mysore, 10 – 31 January 2011.
Visiting lecturer on Language Contact, Deccan College, Pune, 6 – 16 February 2013.
Visiting Professor in historical linguistics, University of Hyderabad, February 2014.
Visiting Professor in historical linguistics, Centre for Advanced Study in Sanskrit, Savitribai
Phule Pune University, under the Global Initiatives of Academic Network (GIAN), October
2017.
Other invited teaching positions
Visiting Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, Spring 1972
Faculty member, 1993 Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, Ohio State
University.
Address: Department of Linguistics Home: 703 S. Prairie
4080 Foreign Languages Building Champaign, IL 61820
University of Illinois Tel. (217) 352-5423
707 S. Mathews
Urbana, IL 61801 (USA) Email: hhhock@illinois.edu
Research Interests:
General historical and comparative linguistics (all areas), comparative and diachronic syntax of
Indo-European languages (especially Sanskrit/Indo-Aryan, Germanic, Latin); Sanskrit
linguistics (synchronic and diachronic, syntax, phonology, language contact, sociolinguistics;
 Vedic, modern spoken Sanskrit); convergence phenomena; clitics, prosody, and the
phonology/syntax interface; “identity” movements and linguistic, textual, and archeological
evidence.
Honors
Invited Speaker and Conference Participant
Invited Keynote Speaker, International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India, Guwahati,
Assam, November 2016.
Invited Keynote Speaker, Seminar on Archaeology and Language, Deccan College, Pune,
October 2014.
Invited Keynote Speaker, Sanskrit Syntax Seminar, Université de Paris, Diderot, 13-15 June
2013
Invited Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Contact in South Asia, Deccan College,
Pune, February 2013
Invited Plenary Speaker, International Conference of South Asian Languages and Literatures,
Moscow, July 2012
Invited keynote lecture at a panel on diachronic morphology in Indo-European languages,
International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal CN, August 2007.
Invited participant, International Vedic Conference, Ujjain, January 2007, with full travel and
hospitality funding.
Invited to present the Annual Humanities Lecture, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UIUC,
fall 2006
Interviews
Interview (by Ruta Paradkar, Subhangi Kardile, and Satish Bangar) in Indian Linguistics:
Journal of the Linguistic Society of India 75 (3/4): 199-216 (2014); published 2015.
Video interview on the controversial issues of “Aryan Invasion” and “Sanskrit as the Mother of
all Indian languages”, Newsclick 26 March 2010 (originally at http://newsclick.in/india/hans-
hock-aryan-invasion-and-sanskrit-mother-all-indian-languages, now available at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hj4UGd0hnY,
http://www.academicroom.com/video/aryan-invasion-and-sanskrit-mother-all-indian-
languages)
Other Honors and Recognitions
Awarded honorary life membership, Societas Linguistica Europaea, 2018
Awarded the honorary degree of D.Litt. for “outstanding contribution to historical linguistics and
Sanskrit’, Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Pune, India, 2018
Awarded the Sukumar Sen Memorial Gold Medal for my work in general historical and
comparative linguistics and on Sanskrit by the Asiatic Society, Kolkata, India (the society
that Sir William Jones helped to establish), 2015
Honored by a Festschrift, Grammatica et verba — Glamor and Verve: Studies in South Asian,
historical, and Indo-European linguistics, in honor of my 75th birthday, edited by Shu-Fen
Chen and Benjamin Slade, and published by Beechstave Press, 2014
Elected Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America, Class of 2013
Outstanding and Inspiring Leadership Award, Consulate General of India, Chicago, August 2003
Honored as Vidyasagara (lit. “Ocean of Knowledge”), 8 January 1997, by Mandakini, a society
for the promotion of Sanskrit, at the 10th World Sanskrit Conference, Bangalore, India.
Listed in German Indology, 1984, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2005, 2007
Listed in Who’s Who in the Midwest, 24th ed., 1994-1995
Listed in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers (nominated by former Discovery-Section
student in Linguistics 210)
Vice President, World Association for Vedic Studies, 1999-2002
Member, Governing Council, World Association for Vedic Studies, 2002-2004
Invited Fellow at the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study, New Delhi, February-March
2010
American Institute of Indian Studies research grant for work on “Spoken Sanskrit in Modern
India”, 1980-1981
Service to learned societies
Convener, Veda Section, 16th World Sanskrit Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, 2015.
Convener, Veda Section, 15th World Sanskrit Conference, New Delhi, January 2012
Societas Linguistica Europaea (Linguistic Society of Europe)
• Member, Publications Committee (2003-2006)
• Editor, Folia Linguistica Historica (2004-2009)
• Member, Executive Committee (2004-2010)
• Member, Editorial Board, Folia Linguistics Historica, 2010-
• Member, Scientific Committee, 2011 Annual Meeting, and 2013- Annual Meetings
Linguistic Society of America:
• Committee on Linguistic Institutes and Fellowships, Linguistic Society of America,
1978.
• Ad-hoc committee of the Linguistic Society of America for 75th Anniversary
Celebrations, 1996-1999.
• Committee on Honorary Memberships, 2002-2004 (Chair 2004), 2016-2018 (Chair 2018)
• Abstract Evaluator for the 2007 LSA Annual Meeting
• Undergraduate Program Advisory Committee (2007-2008)
Teaching:
Courses taught: General historical linguistics (introductory, advanced, seminars); diachronic
phonology and syntax; Introduction to Indo-European linguistics; Sanskrit language and
linguistics; Vedic and Classical Sanskrit texts; sociolinguistics from a diachronic
perspective; pidgins and creoles; history of linguistics; independent-study courses on
Gothic (comparative Germanic), Old English, Old Irish, Indo-European linguistic
palaeontology, Sanskrit literature; Ideology and linguistic history; Indian Civilization;
“Practicum” (writing for linguistics graduate students)
Course development: Courses in Sanskrit language and linguistics and in Indo-European and
general historical linguistics. This includes reorganization of offerings in historical
linguistics, especially development of an elementary undergraduate course meeting the
campus-wide General Education requirement in Historical and Philosophical Perspectives,
successful development and teaching of a “Discovery Course” section of this course for
incoming freshmen, production of new visual materials, development of a course
“handbook” with exercises etc., commissioning of a web-page version of the “handbook”,
and development of a Campus Honors Program section (fall 1999), as well as development
of Linguistics 240 as a free-standing course (on Ideology and Historical/Comparative
Linguistics) for the Campus Honors Program.
 Development of “Capstone Courses” for the Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern
Studies on various aspects of South Asia and team-teaching one of these courses (2000-
2001).
Development and teaching of a course on Indian Civilization (History/Anthropology 240)
as a Summer Session I study abroad course.
Teaching evaluation: Included in ‘Incomplete Listing of Excellent Teachers’ for: Linguistics
302, Fall 1978, Spring 1979, Fall 1984 (‘Outstanding Teacher’), Spring 1989; Ling. 403
[History of Sanskrit language], Spring 1974; Linguistics 411, Fall 1978, Fall 1985, Fall
1993 (‘Outstanding Teacher’); Sanskrit 201, Fall 1991, Sanskrit 201, Fall 1993
(‘Outstanding Teacher’); Linguistics 412, Spring 1993, Linguistics 310, Spring 1996;
Sanskrit 202, Spring 1996 (‘Outstanding Teacher’); Ling. 403 [Language contact and
historical linguistics], Spring 2000 (‘Outstanding Teacher’).
Thesis Advising, External Degree Evaluation, External Promotion Evaluation, etc.
(An asterisk indicates serving as committee chair)
a. At UIUC
Completed Ph.D. Committees: Lee Becker (Slavic), Esther Bentur, Tej Bhatia, Patricio Carrasco
(Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese), Maria Carreira, Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino, Richard
Cervin*, Shu-Fen Chen*, Thomas Cravens (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese), Susan
Donaldson, Laura Downing, Karen Dudas, Indranil Dutta*, Miguel Galindo (Spanish,
Italian, and Portuguese), Matt Garley, Maria José Gonzalez (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese),
Naomi Gurevich, Timothy Habick*, Wayne Harbert (Germanic), Brian Imhoff (Spanish,
Italian, and Portuguese), Mwamba T. Kapanga, Iwona Kraska-Szlenk, Sang Oak Lee, Carol
Leibiger (Germanic), Gary Linebaugh, Patrick Marlow*, Kelly Maynard*, Terrence C.
McCormick (Germanic), Mithilesh Mishra, Margie O’Bryan(*), Elizabeth Pearce*, Pilar
Prieto (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese), Daniel P. Quinlin (Germanic), Nalini Rau-Murthy,
Vesna Radanovic-Kocic*, Steven Schäufele*, Marco Shappeck*, Benjamin Slade*, Rajka
Smiljanic, Jesse Robert Smith*, Han Sohn, David Stein, Alexandra Steinbergs, David
Stillman (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese), Yasuko Suzuki*, Sarah Tsiang*, Wen-Chiu Tu,
William Wallace*, Kathleen Wise, Maurice Wong
Pending Ph.D. committees: Irja Alho, Zoann Branstine, James Kapper*, Adriana Molina
Muñoz*, Daniel Ross
MA committees: Sona Janjigian (MA thesis advisor), Jesse Robert Smith (MA thesis advisor),
April Snyder (French), Kent Lee (MA thesis advisor)
BA Honors Theses: Alexander Francis*, Steven Peter*, Karen Rosen (co-advisor), Derick
Gregg*, William F. Hodgett*, Gregory Roberts*, Kimberli Roan (thesis co-evaluator),
Serene Chan (thesis co-evaluator), Sonny Vu*, Rebecca Niehus*, Daniel Webber (co-
advisor and evaluator), Christine Robinson (co-evaluator), Cynthia Johnson*
Undergraduate honors paper and independent study project advisor (incomplete listing): Brooke
Anderson (James Scholar Paper, fall 1996), Rebecca Niehus (Independent Study project,
Fall 1997, James Scholar Paper, spring 1999), Jennifer Kline (James Scholar Paper, fall
1998), Rachel Reem (James Scholar Paper, fall 1999), Nadia Karlinsky (Engineering,
spring 2001), Tina Shah and Riddhi Patel (Honors project in Sanskrit, fall 2002), Girish
Mulye (Intensive Writing course on Sanskrit, fall 2002), Jessica Schlegel (fall 2005), Sami
Jiries (fall 2006), Yekaterina Khazanova and Sarah Pittenger (spring 2007); Bill Mahoney
and Rich Olszewski (spring 2009); Cody Johnson, Alexander Petit, Kayla Pennoyer (fall
 2010); Kaitlyn Kuhl and Alexandra Nolde (spring 2011); Kyle Curry, Kirk Labuda, and
Jamie Won (fall 2011); Colin Anderson, John Arnold, Noreen Madden, Courtney Romolt
(spring 2012); Cynthia Blocker, Vivian Robison, Jasmine Romero, William Velez (fall
2012), Baley Cation (fall 2014), Rebecca Whalen, Moisés Contreras (spring 2015), Hanna
Simmons (fall 2015), Nathaniel Anleitner (spring 2016), Sean Chapman (spring 2016),
Robyn Lee (spring 2016)
b. External Degree Evaluation
Dr. Habil evaluation, Velizar Sadovski, Universität Wien.
Ph.D. evaluation: S. R. Savithri (University of Mysore, India; External Reader), Lieve van de
Walle (University of Antwerp, Belgium; External Member, Ph.D. Defense Committee),
Richard Scherl (Anthropology, University of Chicago; External Member, Ph.D.
Committee); Hope Dawson (Ohio State University; External Member, Ph.D. Committee);
Uta Reinöhl (Universität Köln; External Evaluator)
MA evaluation: Sarah R. Rose (Memorial University of Newfoundland; External Reader)
b. External Promotion/Appointment Evaluation
Reviewer of promotion cases for Jawaharlal Nehru University and IIT Bombay, 2015
Evaluation of four finalists for the position of Professur für Indogermanistik, Universität Jena,
Germany, 2012.
Evaluation for Promotion and Tenure in Linguistics, North Texas University, 2012
Administration:
Undergraduate Advisor, Department of Linguistics, 2004-2007
Director, 1998-2002, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Acting Director,
1996-1997, Associate Director 1997-1998.
Director (1996-1998), Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, held at the
University of Illinois, Summer 1999; Co-Director after taking over preceding office.
Associate Director, Center for Asian Studies, 1982-1983; Acting Associate Director, Center for
Asian Studies, 1981-1982.
Acting Head, Department of Linguistics, Summer 1977, 1979, 1994.
Long-Range Planning Committee, Department of Linguistics, 2000-2007.
Graduate Program Coordinator, Department of Linguistics, 1991-1996.
Language Coordinator, Department of Linguistics, 1972-1977.
Assistant Director, 1978, for the Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America,
Summer 1978.
Public Service:
Trustee, American Institute of Pakistan Studies, 1996-2009; membership on numerous
committees, including Fellowships and Nominations
Trustee, American Institute of Indian Studies, 1996-2002
With wife, Zarina, Host family to numerous UIUC students, 1977-present
Member, Champaign-Urbana International Humanitarian Award Steering and Nominations
Committees, 2003-
Member, Executive Committee, Cosmopolitan Club, Champaign, IL (1972-1975).
Assistant Soccer Coach (1981-1984), Soccer Coach (1985, 1986), Champaign Park District
Presentations on Sanskrit, Development of Writing, History of English, Phonetics, Greek, Latin
at Dr. Howard Elementary School Gifted Program (4th/5th Grades), Champaign, Fall and
Spring 1985/1986, Spring 1987
Presentation on Sanskrit and other South Asian languages, University High School, Urbana,
1987
Presentation on Sanskrit: Past, present, and future. Indian Cultural Society of Urbana-
Champaign, February 1990
(Foreign Language) ‘Font Keeper’, Champaign-Urbana Macintosh Users Group, 1986-1988.
‘Introduction to Language History’, presentations at University High School, Urbana, February
1991. (Four talks: ‘Who’s afraid of Beowulf? A brief history of the English language.’
‘Don’t say “It’s Greek to me”: Greek and other relatives of English.’ ‘Give me some sugar,
baby: Secondary relationships among languages.’ ‘Write on! A brief history of writing.’)
Presentation on Sanskrit: Past, present, and future. Hindu Students Council, University of
Illinois, February 1994
Presentation on the Indian Constitution, Republic Day Celebration 2003, Indian Cultural Society
of Urbana-Champaign
Presentation on Sanskrit in India, Illinois Agricultural Leadership Council, February 2004
President’s Council, U of I Foundation, since 2001
Membership in Learned Societies:
American Oriental Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fulbright
Society of America (Life Member), International Association for Sanskrit Studies, Linguistic
Society of America (Life Member), Linguistic Society of India (Life Member), Societas
Linguistica Europaea
Languages:
German (native fluency in all areas)
English (fluent in all areas)
Sanskrit (read, write, speak)
Hindi (some speaking, reading)
French, Italian, Spanish (good reading, some speaking)
Norwegian, Swedish, Danish (some reading)
Pali, Prakrit; Avestan, Old Persian; Homeric Greek; Latin; Old Irish; Gothic, Old High German,
Old Saxon, Old English, Old Icelandic; Lithuanian; Old Church Slavic; Tocharian; Old
French, Old Spanish; Finnish (varying reading ability or knowledge of grammatical structure
and linguistic history)
 Bibliography:
(SLS = Studies in the Linguistic Sciences; IJDL = International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics
Invited publications are marked by †, refereed publications by *.)
A. Ph.D. dissertation:
1. The so-called Aeolic inflection of the Greek contract verbs. Yale University, 1971.
B. (Co-)authored books:
1. Principles of historical linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1986. (Trends in
Linguistics: Studies and Monographs, 34. Also as paperback.) (pp. xii, 722)
1a. Principles of historical linguistics; second, corrected and augmented edition. Berlin:
Mouton de Gruyter, 1991. (pp. xiii, 744)
2. Language history, language change, and language relationship: An introduction to
historical and comparative linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1996. (Trends in
Linguistics, 93. Also as paperback.) (pp. xv, 602). [Senior author, with Brian D. Joseph]
2a. Language history, language change, and language relationship: An introduction to
historical and comparative linguistics, 2nd ed. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2009. [Senior
author, with Brian D. Joseph]
3. An early Upaniṣadic reader, with notes, glossary, and an appendix of related Vedic texts.
Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 2007. (pp. x, 203)
C. (Co-)edited volumes:
1. Germanic linguistics II: Papers from the Second Symposium on Germanic Linguistics,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 3-4 October 1986. Indiana University
Linguistics Club, 1988. [With Elmer H. Antonsen]
2. Studies in Sanskrit syntax. Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1991. (pp. xii, 241)
3. Stæfcræft: Studies in Germanic linguistics. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1991. (pp. viii, 217)
1991.† [With Elmer H. Antonsen]
4. Historical, Indo-European, and lexicographical studies: A festschrift for Ladislav Zgusta
on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997. (pp. vi, 393)
5. Vedic studies: Language, culture, and philosophy. (Proceedings of the 15th World Sanskrit
Conference, 1.) New Delhi: Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan and D. K. Printworld, 2014. (pp.
viii, 244)
6. Selected papers from ICOSAL 10 (Moscow, 5-7 July 2012), published as a special issue of
Lingua Posnaniensis (volume 55: 2, 2013) (With Alice Davison and Liudmila Khokhlova)
7. The languages and linguistics of South Asia: A comprehensive guide. Berlin/Boston: de
Gruyter Mouton, July 2016, pp. x, 917. (Primary editor; with Elena Bashir, coeditor) (See
also E. below.)
8. Veda and Vedic literature: Select papers from the panel on “Veda and Vedic Literature” at
the 16th World Sanskrit Conference … Bangkok/New Delhi: Sanskrit Studies Centre,
Silpakorn University/DK Publishers, 2016. (pp. vii, 225)
9. Vrātya culture in Vedic sources: Select papers from the panel on “Vrātya culture in Vedic
Sources” at the 16th World Sanskrit Conference … Bangkok/New Delhi: Sanskrit Studies
Centre, Silpakorn University/DK Publishers, 2016. (pp. v, 206) (With Tiziana Pontillo and
Moreno Dore)
D. (Co-)edited special journal issues:
1. Studies in Baltic linguistics. (= SLS 2:2) (pp. iv, 203) 1972. [With M. Kenstowicz]
2. Papers on historical linguistics: Theory and method. (= SLS 5:2) (pp. 202) 1975. [With L.
Zgusta]
3. Papers on diachronic syntax: Six case studies. (= SLS 12:2) (pp. ii, 211) 1982.
 4. Papers from the 1986 South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable. (= SLS 17.1) 1987.
5. Linguistics for the nineties: Papers from a lecture series celebrating the Department’s
twenty-fifth anniversary. (= SLS 20:2) (pp. xiv, 214) 1990.
6. Thirteenth South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable: Meeting Handbook. (= SLS 20:3)
(pp. xiii, 157) 1991.
E. Edited general journal issues and publication series:
1. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, vol. 18:2 (pp. v, 233) 1988; 19:1 (pp. v, 193) 1989; 21:1
(pp. v, 188) 1991, 22:1 (pp. viii, 189) 1992, 23:1 (pp. v, 200) 1993
2. Folia Linguistica Historica, a journal of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, vols. 26, 27,
28, 29, 30 (2005-2009)
3. World of Linguistics: A series of linguistics state-of-the-art volumes on the languages of
the world, published by de Gruyter Mouton. See
http://www.degruyter.com/view/serial/41883 Volumes that have appeared so far:
Volume 1: The languages and linguistics of Europe, ed. by Bernd Kortman and Johan
van der Auwera (2011)
Volume 2: The languages and linguistics of South America, ed. by Lyle Campbell and
Verónica Grondona (2012)
Volume 3: The languages and linguistics of Australia, ed. by Harold Koch and Rachel
Nordlinger (2014)
Volume 7: The languages and linguistics of South Asia, ed. by Hans Henrich Hock and
Elena Bashir (2016)
F. Refereed and invited journal articles and book chapters:
(Papers in SLS tend to be ‘lightly refereed’; for papers in volumes edited by me see section G.)
1. On the phonemic status of Germanic i and e. Issues in linguistics: Papers in honor of
Henry and Renée Kahane, ed. by B. B. Kachru et al., 319-351. Urbana: University of
Illinois Press, 1973.†
2. Historical change and synchronic structure: The case of the Sanskrit vocative singular of ā-
stems. Mid-America Linguistics Conference Papers, 1972, ed. by J. H. Battle & J.
Schweitzer, 193-206. Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, 1973.†
Reprinted in IJDL 4.29-42, 1975.†
3. Exceptions and synchronic analogy. SLS 3:1.81-101, 1973.*
Reprinted in IJDL 3.321-335, 1974† and
Modern studies in Sanskrit, ed. by R. Singh et al., 75-92. New Delhi: Bahri,
1988.†
4. Is there an a-epenthesis in Sanskrit? SLS 3:2.43-58, 1973.*
5. Historical change and synchronic structure: The case of the Sanskrit root nouns. Toward
tomorrow’s linguistics, ed. by R. W. Shuy & C.-J. N. Bailey, 329-42. Georgetown
University Press, 1974.†
Reprinted in IJDL 4.215-228, 1975.†
6. On the Indo-Iranian accusative plural of consonant stems. Journal of the American Oriental
Society 94.73-95, 1974.*
7. On the non-automatic relationship between Vedic ablaut and accent. Papers from the Mid-
America Linguistics Conference, 1973, 11-32. University of Iowa, Department of
Linguistics, 1974.*
8. On the judicious application of rules. Papers from the 11th Regional Meeting of the
Chicago Linguistic Society, 272-278, 1975.*
9. Current trends in historical linguistics. Lektos 2:1.25-48,1976.†
10. Final weakening and related phenomena. Mid-America Linguistics Conference papers,
1975, ed. by F. Ingemann, 215-259. University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics,
1976.†
11. The sociolinguistic position of Sanskrit in pre-Muslim South Asia. Studies in Language
Learning 1:2.106-38, 1976. [With R. Pandharipande]*†
12. Sanskrit in the pre-Islamic context of South Asia. Aspects of sociolinguistics in South Asia,
ed. by B. B. Kachru & S. N. Sridhar, 11-25. (= International Journal of the Sociology of
Language, 16.) 1978. [Condensed version of the preceding item; with R.
Pandharipande.]*†
13. Retroflexion rules in Sanskrit. South Asian Languages Analysis 1.47-62, 1979.*
14. Archaisms, morphophonemic metrics, or variable rules in the Rig-Veda? SLS 10:1.59-69,
1980.*
15. Sanskrit causative syntax: A diachronic study. SLS 11:2.9-33, 1981.*
16. Sambhāṣitasaṁskṛtasyādhunikī sthitiḥ. (‘The present-day status of spoken Sanskrit.’)
Bhāsvatī Research Journal of the Sanskrit Department, Kashi Vidyapeeth, Varanasi, 6.61-
64, 1981.†
17. AUX-cliticization as a motivation for word order change. SLS 12:1.91-101, 1982.*
18. The Sanskrit passive: Synchronic behavior and diachronic change. Studies in South Asian
languages and linguistics, ed. by P. J. Mistry, 127-137. (= South Asian Review, 6.) 1982.†
19. Language-death phenomena in Sanskrit: Grammatical evidence for attrition in
contemporary spoken Sanskrit. SLS 13:2.21-35, 1983.*
20. (Pre-)Rig-Vedic convergence of Indo-Aryan with Dravidian? Another look at the evidence.
SLS 14: 1.89-108, 1984.*
21. Pronoun fronting and the notion ‘verb-second’ position in Beowulf. Germanic Linguistics:
Papers from a Symposium at the University of Chicago, April 24, 1985, ed. by J. T.
Faarlund, 70-86. Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1985.†
22. Regular metathesis. Linguistics 23.529-46, 1985.*
23. Sanskrit double-object constructions: Will the real object please stand up? Praci-Bhasha-
Vijnan: Journal of Indian Linguistics 12.50-70, 1985.†
24. Transitivity as a gradient feature: Synchronic and diachronic evidence from Indo-Aryan,
especially Sanskrit. Proceedings of the Conference on Participant Roles in South Asia and
Adjacent Areas, ed. by A. K. Zide et al.. 247-263. Bloomington: Indiana University
Linguistics Club, 1985.†
25. Yes, Virginia, syntactic reconstruction is possible. SLS 15:1.49-60, 1985.*
26. Compensatory lengthening: In defense of the concept ‘mora’. Folia Linguistica 20.431-
460, 1986.*
27. “P-oriented” constructions in Sanskrit. South Asian languages: structure, convergence, and
diglossia, ed. by Bh. Krishnamurti et al., 15-26. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1986.†*
28. Voice, mood, and the gerundive (kṛtya ) in Sanskrit. Indologica Taurinensia 13.81-102,
1986.*
29. Reduced-clause and clause-union absolutives and participles in Vedic Prose. Select Papers
from SALA-7, ed. by E. Bashir et al., 182-198. Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics
Club, 1987.†
30. Regular contact dissimilation. A Festschrift for Henry Hoenigswald, ed. by G. Cardona &
N. Zide, 143-153. Tübingen: Narr, 1987.†
31. Historical implications of a dialectological approach to convergence. Historical
dialectology, ed. by J. Fisiak, 283-328. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1988.†
32. Spoken Sanskrit in Uttar Pradesh: A sociolinguistic profile. Lokaprajñā: Journal of
Orientology 2.1-24 , 1988.†
33. Research on Sanskrit syntax: A status report. New horizons of research in Indology, ed. by
V. N. Jha, 90-107. Pune: Centre for Advanced Study of Sanskrit, University of Poona,
1989.†
34. Oblique subjects in Sanskrit? Experiencer subjects in South Asian languages, ed. by M. K.
Verma & K. P. Mohanan, 119-139. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and
Information, 1990.†
35. Dialects, diglossia, and diachronic phonology in early Indo-Aryan. Studies in the historical
phonology of Asian languages, ed. by W. G. Boltz & M. C. Shapiro, 119-159. Amsterdam
& Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1991.†
36. On the origin and early development of the sacred Sanskrit syllable om. Perspectives on
Indo-European language, culture, and religion: Studies in honor of Edgar C. Polomé 1.89-
110. (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monographs, 7) 1991.†
37. Causation in language change. Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, ed. by W.
Bright, 1.228-231. London & New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.†
38. Initial strengthening. Phonologica 1988: Proceedings of the 6th International Phonology
Meeting, ed. by W. U. Dressler et al., 101-110. Cambridge: University Press, 1991.*†
39. Spoken Sanskrit in Uttar Pradesh: Profile of a dying prestige language. Dimensions of
sociolinguistics in South Asia: Papers in memory of Gerald Kelley, ed. by E. C. Dimmock,
B. B. Kachru, & Bh. Krishnamurti, 247-260. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992.†
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55. Finality, prosody, and change. Proceedings of LP’98, ed. by O. Fujimura, B. D. Joseph,
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68. Fish, push, and Greek R + y clusters: A return to Danielson 1903. Proceedings of the
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69. Vaṣaṭ, vāṭ, veṭ: A new etymological account. In: Encyclopedia of Indian wisdom: Prof.
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70. Philology and the historical interpretation of the Vedic texts. The Indo-Aryan controversy:
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71. How Strict is Strict OV? A Family of Typological Constraints with Focus on South Asia.
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74. Interaction of verb accentuation and utterance finality in Bangla, with Indranil Dutta. CD-
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75. Reflexivization in the Rig-Veda (and beyond). Themes and tasks in Old and Middle Indo-
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76. Ta-participles with genitive agents in Vedic Sanskrit: Was Pāṇini right? Sanskrit Studies
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78. Aspirate sonorants vs sonorants+[H] in Middle Indo-Aryan, Nyāya-Vasiṣṭha: Felicitation
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79. South Asia and Turkic: The Central Asian Connection? Old and new perspectives on South
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80. Morphology and i-apocope in Slavic and Baltic. Proceedings of the Eighteenth UCLA
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82. Dravidian Syntactic Typology: A reply to Steever. Annual Review of South Asian
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83. Early Germanic agreement with mixed-gender antecedents: with focus on the history of
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85. *my > (*)ny in Greek and Italic: Common innovation, parallel development, or fortuitous
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88. Stämme oder Wurzeln im Sanskrit? Primäre vs. sekundäre Verbalstammbildung und das
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90. Prosody vs. syntax: Prosodic rebracketing of final vocatives in English (with Indranil
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97. Proto-Indo-European verb finality: Reconstruction, typology, validation. Proto-Indo-
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99. A morphosyntactic chain shift in the Hindi-Panjabi area: Explications and implications.
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101. Vedic verb accent revisited. In: Vedic and Sanskrit Historical Linguistics: Papers from
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Björn Wiemer, 111-137. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter Mouton, 2015.*†
108. The northwest of South Asia and beyond: The issue of Indo-Aryan retroflexion yet again.
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110. Convergence vs. subversion: Two perspectives on language contact and their relevance to
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 111. Narrative linkage in Sanskrit. Sahasram Ati Srajas: Indo-Iranian and Indo-European
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112. South Asian “Agreeing Verb Constructions”: Serial Verbs, Compound Verbs,
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116. Indo-European linguistics meets Micronesian and Sunda-Sulawesi. Linguistic travels in
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G. Papers in volumes (co-)edited by me:
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2. Problems in the synchronic derivation of the Lithuanian ē-formations. Ibid. 165-203.
3. Substratum influence on (Rig-Vedic) Sanskrit? SLS 5:2.76-125, 1975.
4. Clitic verbs in PIE or discourse-based verb fronting? Sanskrit sá hovāca gā́ rgyaḥ and
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6. Rebracketing and relative clauses in Old English. Germanic linguistics II …, 35-54. [See
section C. above.] 1988.
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1989.
8. Causees, passive agents, or instruments? Instrumental NPs with causatives in early and
later Vedic Prose. Studies in Sanskrit syntax, 71-93. [See section C. above.] 1991.
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on Beowulf. Stæfcræft: Studies in Germanic linguistics, 55-89. [See section C. above.]
1991.
11. What’s a nice word like you doing in a place like this? Syntax vs. Phonological Form. SLS
22:1.39-87, 1992.
12. Nexus and ‘extraclausality’ in Vedic, or ‘sa-figé’ all over again: A historical
(re)examination. Historical, Indo-European, and lexicographical studies …, 49-78. [See
section C. above), 1997.
13. Predicate order in Vedic Prose. Vedic studies …, 5-17. [See section C.5 above.], 2014.
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…, 67-76. [See section C. above]. 2013.
15-34. Articles in The languages and linguistics of South Asia (see C.7 above). 2016
Introduction (The languages, their histories, and their genetic classification), 9-11
Indo-Iranian, 11-18
Old and Middle Indo-Aryan, 18-35
 Daic or Tai languages of South Asia, 155-157
Kusunda, 168-171
Introduction (Ancient contact, convergence, substratum influence), 241-244
Structural features and geographic evidence, 256-250
Post-Vedic contact linguistics, 260-264
Other contact, regional and local, 309-325
English and South Asian languages, 325-332
Introduction (Phonetics and phonology), 375-376
Phonology and phrasal prosody, 388-402
Morphology, 437-450, 465-477
Introduction (Syntax and semantics), 501-502
Oblique experiencers and oblique subjects, 544-549
Complex verbs (introduction), 549-550
Finite and non-finite subordination, 567-584
Introduction (Indigenous South Asian grammatical traditions), 707
Indo-Aryan grammatical traditions (Sanskrit and Prakrit), 707-716
Sources and resources (with Elena Bashir), 823-888
35. The history of Vedic prefix-verb compound accentuation revisited. Veda and Vedic
literature …, 1-16. (See C.8 above)
36. “Vrātya Prakrit”, ritual concerns, or anti-vrātya propaganda? aduruktavākyam in its broader
context. Vrātya culture in Vedic sources …, 103-116. (See C.9 above)
H. Reviews and review articles:
1. Review article on Anttila (1972): An introduction to historical and comparative linguistics.
Language 52.202-220, 1976.†*
2. Review article: Finiteness in Dravidian. (Steever (1988): The serial verb formation in the
Dravidian languages.) SLS 18:2.211-231, 1988.
3. Review of Fisiak (1983): A bibliography of writings for the history of the English
language. World Englishes 4.290-291, 1985.†
4. Review of Lehmann & Malkiel (1982): Perspectives on historical linguistics. Language
61.187-93, 1985.†
5. Review of Meenakshi (1983): Epic syntax. Journal of the American Oriental Society
106.345-346, 1986.†
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65.398-405, 1989.†*
7. Review of Hettrich (1988): Untersuchungen zur Hypotaxe im Vedischen. Language
66.606-614, 1990.†
8. Review of Aralikatti (1989): Spoken Sanskrit in India: A study of sentence patterns. SLS
21:1.161-165, 1991.
9. Review of Tikkanen (1987): The Sanskrit gerund: A synchronic, diachronic, and
typological analysis. Kratylos 37.62-68, 1992.†
10. Review of Abbi (1992): Reduplication in South Asian languages: An areal, typological,
and historical study. SLS 23:1.169-192, 1993.
11. Booknotice on Christel Goldap (1991): Lokale Relationen im Yukatekischen: Eine
onomasiologische Studie. SLS 22:1.173-174, 1992.
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SLS 22:1.174-176, 1992.
 13. Review of Substrata versus universals in creole genesis: Papers from the Amsterdam
Creole Workshop, April 1985, ed. by Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith, World Englishes
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14. Review of R. Breton, Atlas of the languages and ethnic communities of South Asia. Studies
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I. Necrology:
In memoriam: Professor Ladislav Zgusta. Linguist List 18.1378: 1, 2007. (Also included in
Farina, D. M. T. C. "So Many Stories: A Tribute to Professor Ladislav S.L. Zgusta."
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In memoriam Werner Winter. Tocharian and Indo-European studies 13: 1-3, 2012.
In memoriam Dieter Kastovsky. Folia Linguistica 47(2): 1-8, 2013.
In memoriam Alice Davison and James W. Gair. Journal of South Asian Languages and
Linguistics 4(2): 357-360, 2017.
J. Other publications and technical reports:
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1982-1983. Total number of issues: 24. (Issues range from about 10 to about 30 pages.)
2. Position papers on the non-western languages, University of Illinois, Spring 1973:
a. The location of the non-western languages. (pp. 7)
b. Position paper on the status and location of the non-western languages. (pp. 4)
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2)
3. Proposal for HEA Title VI National Resource Centers and Fellowships in International
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on South Asian Languages and Linguistics, 1982.
5. Proposal for the Reorganization of the Center for Asian Studies into Two Successor Units
— A Center for East and Southeast Asian Studies and a Center for South and West Asian
Studies, submitted to Peter Schran, Director of the Center for Asian Studies, University of
Illinois. (pp. 21) 1983.
6. Computers, Sanskrit, and Devanagari. Report on the Sixth World Sanskrit Conference.
American Association for Applied Linguistics Newsletter 7:1.7-8 (1985)†
7. A bibliography of writings on Sanskrit syntax. Studies in Sanskrit syntax, 219-241. [See
section C above.] 1991 [With M. Deshpande.]
8. Recent Books. SLS 21:1.183-188 (1991). (Unsigned)
9. Recent Books. SLS 22:1.177-182 (1992).
10. Recent Books. SLS 23:1.197-200 (1993)
11. Goals for South Asia and the Middle East, University of Illinois, Spring 1997 (pp. 4)
J. Submitted, accepted for publication, in Press:
1. *my > (*)ny in Greek and Italic Common innovation, parallel development, or fortuitous
similarity? Invited paper, submitted for the Anttila-Festschrift, ed. by Sheila Embleton. (An
expanded version has been published in SLS 2009.)
2. The early 19th century. Invited contribution to the Cambridge History of Linguistics, ed. by
Linda Waugh, John E. Joseph, and Monique Burston. Cambridge: University Press, In
Press
3. Latin influence on German word order? Submitted for a volume on Latin influence on the
syntax of the languages of Europe, ed. by Bert Cornillie and Bridget Drinka. (Book
proposal has been submitted to Cambridge University Press.)
4. Old Irish consonant quality reexamined. Submitted for a proceedings volume from the
2015 International Conference on Historical Linguistics (Naples).
5. Passives and anticausatives in Vedic Sanskrit: Synchronic and diachronic perspectives.
Submitted for a proceedings volume from the 2017 International Conference in Historical
Linguistics, ed. by Eystein Dahl.
6. Tat tvam asi once again: Philological and linguistic considerations. To appear in a
felictation volume
7. Anticausative and Passive in Vedic: Which way reanalysis? To appear in a feliciation
volume.
8. The languages of South Asia. To appear in the Sage encyclopedia of Human
Communication Sciences and Disorders.
9. Language contact in South Asia. To appear in the Cambridge Handbook of Language
Contact, ed. by Salikoko Mufwene and Anna Maria Escobar.
K. In preparation:
1. Revision of Language history, language change, language relationship (with Brian D.
Joseph), to appear with de Gruyter Mouton 2019 (Berlin/Boston)
2. Book proposal (with Camiel Hamans), Language, history, ideology: The use and misuse of
historical-comparative linguistics, accepted by Oxford University Press. (The proposed
volume contains two papers of mine.)
3. Language Contact in South Asia, with focus on Sanskrit (in preparation)´