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Michiel de Vaan | |
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| Born | (1973-03-19)March 19, 1973 (age 52) Son en Breugel, Netherlands |
| Occupations | Historical linguist,Comparative linguist,Indo-Europeanist |
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| Education | Leiden University |
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| Institutions | Leiden University University of Lausanne |
Michiel Arnoud Cor de Vaan (Dutch:[miˈxildəˈvaːn]; born 1973) is aDutch linguist andIndo-Europeanist. He taught comparative Indo-European linguistics,historical linguistics anddialectology at theUniversity of Leiden until 2014, when he moved to theUniversity of Lausanne in Switzerland. De Vaan had been at the University of Leiden since 1991, first as a student and later as a teacher.[1]
He has published extensively onLimburgian,Dutch,Germanic,Albanian,Indo-Iranian andIndo-European linguistics and philology. He has published more than 100 papers, has written several books and has edited conference proceedings and a handbook of Indo-European. He wrote the etymological dictionary ofLatin and otherItalic languages as a contributor to the Leiden-basedIndo-European Etymological Dictionary project.
De Vaan’s work has received praise, with the classicistJonathan Powell claiming that the dictionary will be of “substantial value” to Indo-Europeanists. Powell commended the text for its supposed usage of “up to date” information and “modern conclusions on the sound changes between IE and Latin.[2] Likewise, the linguistRex Wallace stated that the work “suits the needs of specialists” and that the etymologies presented in the text reflected “the latest developments in the field of Indo-European linguistics.”[3] However, Powell criticized de Vaan for a perceived lack of proper attention tosemantics in certain etymologies and potential “perfunctory” underemphasis on “remodelling oronomatopoeia, which tend to interfere with the operation of thesound-laws.”[2]
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