Hans Henrich Hock

Region of Interest	South Asia
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Professor of Linguistics and Sanskrit
Affiliation	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Email	hhhock@uiuc.edu
Mailing Address	Dept. of Linguistics 4088 Foreign Languages Building University of Illinois 707 S. Mathews Urbana, IL 61801 USA
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phones: 217-333-0357 (office) 217-333-3563 (messages) 217-352-5423 (residence) FAX: 217-333-3466
Countries of Specialization	India, Iran
Research Interests	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.
Publications	None on file.
Keywords	Sanskrit linguistic ; Indo-Aryan linguistics ; Indo-Iranian ; comparative Indo-European ; South Asia