Hans Henrich Hock (University of Illinois)

Hans Henrich Hock
Professor of Linguistics and Sanskrit
Dept. of Linguistics
4088 Foreign Languages Building
University of Illinois
707 S. Mathews
Urbana, IL 61801   USA

phones: 217-333-0357 (office)
        217-333-3563 (messages)
        217-352-5423 (residence)
FAX:    217-333-3466
email:  hhhock@uiuc.edu

Description of work:
Sanskrit linguistics, including phonology, syntax, sociolinguistics, both
historical - diachronic - and synchronic.  Emphasis on Vedic and on modern
spoken Sanskrit - language death.  Historical Indo-Aryan linguistics. 
Indo-Iranian and comparative Indo-European backgrounds of Sanskrit.  South
Asian convergence - South Asia as a Linguistic Area - substratum effects: 
Interactions - possible, probable, or doubtful (depending on the
chronological stage) between Sanskrit or Indo-Aryan and Dravidian, Munda,
and other languages of South Asia.