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Ahli Jawatankuasa Bahasa Malaysia, Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia (1980-1986)
Timbalan Naib Canselor (Hal Ehwal Pekerja) UM (1983–1986)
Profesor Pelawat Fulbrightuntuk rancangan SEASSI, Northern Illinois University, Amerika Syarikat (2 Jun 1987 - 23 Ogos 1987)
Profesor Linguistik Melayu, UM (1976 -2000)
Dekan Fakulti Bahasa dan Linguistik, UM (1995-2000)
Presiden Pengasas Persatuan Bahasa Moden Malaysia (1986 - 1994; 2002 hingga kini)
Ahli Jawatankuasa Tetap Bahasa Melayu Malaysia (1972 - kini)
Ahli Lembaga Pengelola DBP
Selepas persaraan, dilantik sebagai Profesor Kerusi Tamadun Melayu Za’ba dan menubuhkan Institut Tamadun Melayu di UPSI (2001–2005)
Sumbangan pada peringkat institusi dan negara:
Wanita Melayu pertamayang mendapat Ijazah Doktor Falsafah.
Banyak menjalankan kajian mengenai bahasa peribumi di Sabah dan di Sarawak, dan juga bahasa-bahasa Orang Asli
Bidang kepakaran
Tokoh linguistik terkemuka Malaysia yang banyak berjasa dalam pembangunan bahasa Melayu dan mengetuai banyak usaha perancangan bahasadan memperjuangkan martabat bahasa Melayu pada peringkat serantau dan antarabangsa.
Hasil penyelidikan/karya
Menghasilkan lebih daripada 45 buah buku akademik berkenaan linguistik
Kajian linguistik dan perancangan bahasa sepertiLanguage and Society in Malaysia (1982), Susur Galur Bahasa Melayu (1985), Bahasa Melayu di Samudera (2006) dan lain-lain
Kajian bahasa peribumi, antaranyatermasuklah analisis bahasa Kentakbong (Baling), Mah Meri (Sepang) serta beberapa bahasa suku kaum di Sabah dan di Sarawak
Penerbitan seperti The Iban Language of Sarawak: A Grammatical Description(tesis PhD 1969; diterbitkan DBP 1981) dan The Malay Peoples of Malaysia and Their Languages
Menyumbang kepada penggubalan sistem ejaan, kamus istilah dan standardisasi bahasa melalui jawatan dalam JKTBM, MBIM/MABBIM
Menulis dan menyunting Ensiklopedia Bahasa Melayuyang merangkumi sejarah, variasi, ejaan, fonologi, morfologi, sintaksis, ragam dan etimologi
Menterjemahkan kamus Bahasa Inggeris, Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionarydan Choose Life (kumpulan wacana Arnold Toynbee dan Daisaku Ikeda) dan beberapa karya Daisaku Ikeda serta cerita-cerita rakyat Jerman ke dalam bahasa Melayu
Penyumbang rencana akademik dalam penerbitan tempatan dan antarabangsa
Editor Undangan International Journal of the Sociology of Language
Ahli sidang editorial beberapa jurnal linguistik antarabangsa
Menjalankan penyelidikan, antaranya termasuklah University of Malaya English for Special Purpose Project(yang menghasilkan siri buku pengajaran bahasa Inggeris, diterbitkan oleh Thomas Nelson Inc.), CICHE ELT 308 Academic Writing and Teaching Package Project, University of Malaya Spoken English Project (UMSEP) dari tahun 1980 hingga 1983, dan projek Culturally Conditioned Models of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Malaysia-Sweden (University of Goteborg) dari tahun 1989 hingga tahun 1994.
Hasil kajian terbaharu beliau adalah mengenai bahasa yang digunakan dalam koleksi surat-menyurat Almarhum DYMM Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah dari tahun 1882-1905 Masihiyang menggambarkan siasah pengurusan Sultan Abdul Hamid ketika Kedah masih di bawah jajahan kerajaan Siam. Kandungan surat-surat tersebut diolah dari sudut masyarakat dan penggunaan bahasa dalam pengurusan negeri Kedah dan juga dalam hubungan Kedah dengan Siam dan negeri-negeri Melayu yang lain.
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Anugerah dan pengiktirafan
Ahli Mangku Negara (A.M.N.) – 1973
Setia DiRaja Kedah (S.D.K.) – 1979
Dato' Setia DiRaja Kedah (D.S.D.K.) yang membawa gelaran Dato’ – 1983
Anugerah ASANAL – 1979
'Orde Des Palmas Academique Perancis' – 1989
GRATA HOME NAGEM Institute Portugese Do Oriente, Macau – 1990
Boss of the Yeardari Persatuan Setiausaha Malaysia Sesi 1992/1993
Piagam Penghargaan MABBIM Indonesia 1993
Sijil Penghargaan Menteri Pendidikan Malaysia kerana mengembangkan MABIM dan MABBIM – 1995
Anugerah Bahasa Raja Nazrin Shah Yang Pertama dari Persatuan Bahasa Moden Malaysia – 1996
Anugerah Women of the Year1998 dari American Biographical Institute
Anugerah 20thCAA Silver Medal of Honor dari International Biographical Center – 1999
Pada 31 Ogos 2012, sewaktu Himpunan 55 Tahun Merdeka: Janji Ditepati di Stadium Bukit Jalil, beliau telah diberi Anugerah Pencapaian Cemerlang Sepanjang Zamanoleh kerajaan Malaysia bagi menghargai sumbangan beliau kepada negara.