Awards
Visiting Professorships and research stays
1953-1955 Rockefeller Foundation Fellow in Linguistics
1953-1954 Harvard University
1954-1955 University of California, Berkeley. Field work Cahuilla language
1962 University of Austin, Texas. Summer School of the Linguistic Society of America
1965-1966 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, California
1970 University of Columbus Ohio. Holder of the Hermann Collitz Professorship
1976 Visiting Professor, Stanford University, California
1977 University of Salzburg, Summer School in Linguistics
1977-1978 University of Kenya, Nairobi, Guest Professor
1981 Université de Paris III, Institut de Linguistique. Professeur invité
1985 New York University. Roman Jakobson Colloquium
1987-1988 University of Bern, Institute of Linguistics. Lectureship
1988-1989 Universität Zürich, Seminar für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Lehrauftrag
1989 Organisator und Herausgeber: Internationales interdisziplinäres Colloquium «Sprache und Denken»
1991 Keynote Speaker, EUROTYP meeting, Il Ciocco, Lucca, Italien
Memberships
1947 Société de Linguistiques de Paris
1953 Linguistic Society of America, life member since 2001
1956 Indo-European Society
1956 Societas Linguistica Europaea. 1982 President
1972 North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Humanities class; corresponding member since 1987
1982 Academia Europaea, London. Emeritus Member
1987 Swiss Society for Linguistics. Honorary Member
1992 Membre Correspondant Étranger. Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettre. Institute of France
Honors
1978 Dr. h.c. Katholieke Universiteit te Leiden
1983 Dr. h. c. Université de Paris VII
1970 Hermann Collitz Professorship. Linguistic Insitute, University of Columbus, Ohio
1987 Swiss Society for Linguistics. Honorary member
1992 Correspondant étranger. Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Institut de France
1993 East-West Society for Linguistics, Humboldt University of Berlin, Honorary President
2001 The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas. Honorary Member