- PhD Indiana University 1961
- Taught at UChicago from 1962 to 2002 (in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Linguistics)
- Served as chair of both the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Department of Linguistics
- PhD Yale 1957
- Taught at UChicago for 5 decades (in Anthropology and Linguistics)
- PhD Harvard 1954
- Taught at UChicago from 1950 to 1991
- Author of more than 3500 articles
- Chair, Department of Linguistics, 1966-1969
- PhD Indiana University 1965
- Taught at UChicago from 1956 to 2000
- PhD Brown University 1982
- Taught at UChicago from 1982 to 2003
- Academic Director of the Language Labs and Archives and the Language Faculty Resource Center, and Associate Dean for Computing and Language Technologies at the University
Professor Emeritus, Departments of South Asia Languages & Civ. and Linguistics
- PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1965
- Taught at UChicago from 1964 to 1999
- Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations during last decades of tenure
- PhD University of Chicago 1955
- Taught at UChicago from 1956 to 1996
- John A. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor Emerita and Editor of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary at passing
- PhD Harvard 1969
- Taught at UChicago from 1970 to 2020
- MacArthur Fellow 1982
- Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, Linguistics and Psychology
- PhD MIT