Teaching History:

  • UIUC Positions:
    • Professor of Linguistics and Sanskrit
    • Professor of the Classics
    • Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures
    • Campus Honors Program. On the University of Illinois faculty since 1967, Emeritus 2007

  • Visiting Professor, Delhi University, Spring 2005
  • Invited faculty, Linguistic Institute, Ohio State University, Summer 1991
  • Visiting Fulbright Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Fall 1978
  • Visiting Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Spring 1972
  • Instructor of German, Tuskegee Institute, Summer 1964


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)