Expertise
African linguistics, especially Hausa and the Chadic language family
Focus on historical linguistics, tonology, and field methodology African linguistics, especially Hausa and the Chadic language family
Focus on historical linguistics, tonology, and field methodology
Language and law, including forensic linguistics
First Amendment free speech issues
Africa, Africa, Sub-Sahara, Copyright Law, Ethnomusicology, Fieldwork, First Amendment, Hausa, Language and Law, Law, Nigeria, Plagiarism
Affiliations

Director, West African Languages Institute, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Past Affiliations

Distinguished Professor, Department of Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor Emeritus, Department of Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Chair, Department of Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington
1992 - 1998

Assistant, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Yale University (past)
1966 - 1973

Professor, Afrikaanse Taalkunde
1975 - 1982

Director, Centre for the Study of Nigerian Languages, Bayero University (past)
1972 - 1975

Professor, Centre for the Study of Nigerian Languages, Bayero University (past)
1972 - 1975

Peace Corps Volunteer, Maiduguri, Nigeria
1961 - 1963

Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Communities
Language Studies
Degrees
JD, Indiana University Bloomington, 2003
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, Linguistics, 1967
MA, University of Pennsylvania, Anthropology
BA, Philosophy
Keywords
africa africa, western africa, sub-sahara nigeria african languages or literature social sciences economics linguistics or philology law
Languages
Dutch, French, German, Hausa
Honors

Research Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 1988-1989

Associations
Linguistic Society of America