Teaching Experience:

2007-present: A. Richard Diebold Professor of Indo-European Studies &

Professor of Linguistics, University of California at Los Angeles

2005 (summer):  Hermann and Klara Collitz Professor, Linguistic

Society of America Summer Institute, M.I.T & Harvard University,

Cambridge MA

2004-2007: Paul Debreczeny Distinguished Professor of Linguistics,

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1997 (summer):  Visiting Professor, Linguistic Society of America

Summer Institute, Cornell University

1996 (spring):  Visiting Professor, Department of Linguistics, Harvard

University

1993-1996:  Charles S. Smith Jr. Distinguished Professor, University of

North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1990 (spring):  Visiting Professor, Department of Linguistics, Yale

University

1989-present:  Professor

1984-1989:  Associate Professor

1978-1984:  Assistant Professor:  Curriculum in Linguistics, University of

North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1977:  Instructor in Linguistics, Harvard University Summer School

1972-1975:  Teaching fellow in Linguistics, Harvard University

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
Readings in the Rigveda (3 sem.)
     Chinese Historical Phonology
Readings in Chinese Linguistics
     Elementary Old Irish (2 sem.)
     Old Irish Historical Phonology
     Linguistic Phonetics

Education:

1967-68, 72-77 Harvard University, Ph.D. in Linguistics
     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,

Ft. Meade, Md.

1963-67 Michigan State University
     Major:  German
     National Merit Scholarship 1963-67
     Bachelor of Arts in German with high honor

Other Professional Experience:

Ph.D. Dissertations directed:

     A. Wesley Jones, 'Gothic Final Syllables,' 1979 (with Sidney R. Smith)
     Yi Feng Chen, 'The Reconstruction of the Nara Period Japanese

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 Salisbury, 'Local Adverbs in Neo-Hittite,' 2005

M.A. Theses directed:

     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)

Professional Affiliations:

    Linguistic Society of America
    American Oriental Society
Indogermanische Gesellschaft, member and American representative

on the Internationaler Beirat
    Consultant, The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the

University of Chicago
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