Frederik Kortlandt
Frederik Herman Henri "Frits" Kortlandt (born June 19, 1946 in Utrecht ) is a Dutch linguist . He is professor of descriptive and comparative linguistics at Leiden University .
Kortlandt, the son of the behaviorist Adriaan Kortlandt , received his PhD in linguistics from the University of Amsterdam in 1972 . In addition to linguistics and Slavic studies, he also studied mathematics and economics there.
Kortlandt deals with Slavic and Baltic languages (for example the Old Prussian language ), generally with Indo-European languages, the Indo-Ural superfamily and the Indo-European original language .
In 2007 he published his version of Schleicher's Indo-European fable .
In 1997 he received the Spinoza Prize . In 1986 he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences.
Fonts
- Modeling the phoneme. New trends in East European phonemic theory, The Hague: Mouton 1972
- Italo-Celtic origins and prehistoric development of the Irish language, Amsterdam: Rodopi 2007
- Studies in Germanic, Indo-European and Indo-Uralic, Amsterdam: Rodopi 2010
- Selected writings on Slavic and general linguistics, Amsterdam: Rodopi 2011
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kortlandt, Frederik |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kortlandt, Frits |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Utrecht |