Frederik Kortlandt | |
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 Frits Kortlandt in 2006 | |
| Born | Frederik Herman Henri (1946-06-19)19 June 1946 (age 79) |
| Occupation | Linguist |
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| Institutions | Leiden University |
| Main interests | Indo-European languages,historical linguistics |
Frederik Herman Henri "Frits" Kortlandt (born 19 June 1946) is a Dutch former professor of descriptive and comparativelinguistics atLeiden University in theNetherlands. He writes onBaltic andSlavic languages, theIndo-European languages in general, andProto-Indo-European, though he has also published studies of languages in other language families. He has also studied ways to associate language families into super-groups such as the controversialIndo-Uralic.
Kortlandt was born on 19 June 1946 inUtrecht.[1] Kortlandt, along withGeorge van Driem and a few other colleagues, is one of the proponents ofthe Leiden school of linguistics, which describes language in terms of ameme or benign parasite.
Kortlandt holds five degrees from theUniversity of Amsterdam:
He obtained his PhD underCarl Lodewijk Ebeling with a thesis titled: "Modelling the phoneme : new trends in East European phonemic theory".[2] Kortlandt was a professor of Slavic Languages at Leiden University between 1975 and 2011.[1]
Kortlandt has been a member of theRoyal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1986[3] and is a 1997Spinozapremie laureate.[4] In 2007, he composed a version ofSchleicher's fable, a story written in a hypothetical, reconstructedProto-Indo-European, which differs radically from all previous versions.
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