Teaching Experience:

2004-present: 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:

    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:

     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-)
     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-)

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
 

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