2007-2015:
A. Richard Diebold Professor of Indo-European Studies &
Professor of Linguistics,
2008
(summer): Lecturer, Indo-European Dahlem Summer School
Cuneiform
Luvian Grammar & Hittite Texts September 1-5,
2008
2005 (summer): Hermann and Klara Collitz Professor, Linguistic
Society of America Summer Institute,
2004-2007: Paul Debreczeny
Distinguished Professor of Linguistics,
1997
(summer): Visiting Professor, Linguistic Society of America
Summer Institute,
1996
(spring): Visiting Professor, Department of Linguistics, Harvard
University
1993-1996: Charles S. Smith Jr.
Distinguished Professor,
1990
(spring): Visiting Professor, Department of Linguistics,
University
1989-2007: Professor
1984-1989: Associate Professor
1978-1984: Assistant Professor:
Curriculum in Linguistics, University of
1977:
Instructor in Linguistics,
1972-1975:
Teaching fellow in Linguistics,
Courses taught:
Introduction to
Language
(regularly)
Introduction to Historical
Linguistics "
Introduction to Indo-European (2 sem.)
"
Elementary Sanskrit (2 sem.)
"
Structure of Mandarin
Chinese
"
Indo-European Culture and
Society "
Elementary Hittite (2 sem.)
"
Linguistic Structuralism: Sources and Influences
Introduction to Anatolian Linguistics
Historical Grammar of Sanskrit
Chinese Historical Phonology
Elementary Old Irish (2 sem.)
Old Irish Historical Phonology
Linguistic Phonetics
1967-68,
72-77
Major: Indo-European
Minor: Chinese Linguistics
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship 1967-68
Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities 1976-77
Dissertation: 'Ablative and Instrumental in Hittite' (Director:
Calvert
Watkins)
1968
Chinese (Mandarin) Course ("MAFAC") Defense Language
Institute, West Coast
1970-71 Intermediate Chinese (Mandarin) National Cryptologic School,
1963-67
Michigan State University
Major: German
National Merit Scholarship 1963-67
Bachelor of Arts in German with high honor
Ph.D. Dissertations directed (UCLA):
Andrew
M. Byrd, 'Reconstructing Indo-European Syllabification,' 2010
Jessica
L. DeLisi, 'Epenthesis
and prosodic structure in Armenian:
A diachronic account,' 2015
Timothy
R. Dempsey, 'Anatolian Verbal Reduplication,' 2015
Bernhard
Koller, 'Studies in Tocharian Phonology above the
Word-Level,' 2015
Mattyas G. C. Huggard, 'Wh-words in Hittite: A Study in Syntax-Semantics
and Syntax-Phonology Interfaces,' 2015
Kaspars Ozoliņš, 'Revisiting
Proto-Indo-European Schwebeablaut,' 2015
Ph.D. Dissertations directed (UNC-CH):
A. Wesley Jones,
'Gothic Final Syllables,' 1979 (with Sidney R. Smith)
Yi Feng Chen, 'The Reconstruction of the
Vowels,' 1979
Linda McIntyre, 'Classical Reduplication,' 1992 (with Randall Hendrick)
Kirsten Reichardt, 'The Linguistic Structure of
Hittite and Luvian Curse
Formulae,' 1998
Fred M. Williams III, 'The Development of the Sixth Class
Strong Verb
in Germanic,' 1999
Donna
M.A. Theses directed (UNC-CH):
Cynthia Beard, 'A
Transformational Analysis of the Chinese Passive
Construction,' 1982
Jeffrey Davis, 'The Semantics of "Vision" in Old Irish,' 1982
Phyllis McCraw, 'The Indo-European Stop System,' 1986
Linda McIntyre, 'Animate Plural in Neo-Hittite,' 1986
Peter Johnson, 'The PIE Thematic Ablative Ending,' 1991
Kristin Reichardt, 'Old English wif
and cwen/cwene,'
1996
Donna Salisbury, 'anda and andan
in Neo-Hittite,' 1996
Benito Vilá, 'The Vocabulary of Self and Other in
Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Century Chilean Documents,' 2000
Administrative
Duties (
Departmental Director
of Graduate Admissions (1979-1984,
2000-2004)
Departmental Director of Graduate Studies (1979-1999, 2002-2007)
Chair, Curriculum in Linguistics &
Linguistics Advisory Committee
(1984-1989)
Assistant Chair, Curriculum in Linguistics & East Asian Language
(1990-1993)
Chair, Department of Linguistics (1994-1999, 2004-2007)
Administrative Duties (University of California, Los Angeles)
Chair, Program in Indo-European
Studies (2009-2015)
Professional Affiliations:
American Oriental Society
Indogermanische Gesellschaft,
member and American representative
on the Internationaler Beirat
(Stellvertreter 2008-2012)
Co-editor, Brill’s Studies in Indo-European Languages and Linguistics
Consultant,The Hittite
Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the
Member,
Editorial Advisory Board of Tocharian and Indo-European
Studies
Member,
Redaktioneller Beirat, Kratylos
Member,
Editorial Board, Eisenbrauns' book series Language of
the
Ancient Near East