Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

1968 Ph.D. (Linguistics), Harvard University
1963-64 Fulbright Fellowship, University of Bonn
1963 A.B. (Linguistics and Mathematics, magna cum laude), Harvard College

EMPLOYMENT

1998- Diebold Professor of Indo-European Linguistics and Philology, Harvard University
  • Chair, Department of Linguistics, 1999-2008, 2014-16
  • Interim Chair, Department of South Asian Studies, 2019-21
1990-98 Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Linguistics, Cornell University
  • Acting Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, 1993-94)
1981-90 Professor of Linguistics, Cornell University
  • Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, 1981-85
  • Acting Chair, 1987-88
1978-81 Associate Professor of Linguistics, Cornell University
1975-78 Associate Professor of Linguistics and Germanic Philology, Harvard University
1974-75 Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Germanic Philology, Harvard University
1970-74 Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Harvard University
1969-70 Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley

VISITING APPOINTMENTS AND AWARDS (since 1985)

2011 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2008 Fellow, Linguistic Society of America
2005 Visiting Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge
2005 Visiting Professor, 2005 Linguistic Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2004-05 William Channing Cabot Fellowship, Harvard University
1999 Visiting Professor, Kyoto University
1996 Visiting Scholar, Wolfson College, Oxford
1995 Visiting Professor of Linguistics, Harvard University
1991 Hermann and Klara Collitz Professor, 1991 Linguistic Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz
1990-91 Visiting Professor of Linguistics, Yale University
1986 Visiting Professor, 1986 Linguistic Institute, CUNY Graduate Center, New York
1986 Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford
1985-86 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship