Frederik Kortlandt
Frederik Kortlandt | |
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 Frits Kortlandt in 2006 | |
| Born | Frederik Herman Henri 19 June 1946 |
| 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 comparativelinguisticsatLeiden Universityin theNetherlands.He writes onBalticandSlavic languages,theIndo-European languagesin 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.
Biography
[edit]Kortlandt was born on 19 June 1946 inUtrecht.[1]Kortlandt, along withGeorge van Driemand a few other colleagues, is one of the proponents ofthe Leiden schoolof linguistics, which describes language in terms of amemeor benign parasite.
Kortlandt holds five degrees from theUniversity of Amsterdam:
- B.A., 1967, Slavic Linguistics and Literature
- B.A., 1967,mathematicsandeconomics
- M.A., 1969, Slavic linguistics
- M.A., 1970, mathematical economics
- Ph.D., 1972,mathematical linguistics[2]
He obtained his PhD underCarl Lodewijk Ebelingwith 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 Sciencessince 1986[3]and is a 1997Spinozapremielaureate.[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.
References
[edit]- ^ab"Frederik Herman Henri Kortlandt (Frits)".Leiden University. Archived fromthe originalon 23 July 2019.
- ^ab"F.H.H. Kortlandt".University of Amsterdam. Archived fromthe originalon 30 October 2020.
- ^"Frits Kortlandt".Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived fromthe originalon 5 August 2020.
- ^"NWO Spinoza Prize 1997".Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. 11 September 2014. Archived fromthe originalon 27 June 2015.Retrieved30 January2016.
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