Frederik Herman Henri (Frits) Kortlandt is a professor of descriptive and comparative linguistics at Leiden University. He is an expert on Baltic and Slavic languages, the Indo-European languages in general, and Proto-Indo-European, though he has also published studies of languages in many other language families. He has also studied ways to associate language families into super-groups such as Indo-Uralic.

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  • Frederik Herman Henri (Frits) Kortlandt is a professor of descriptive and comparative linguistics at Leiden University. He is an expert on Baltic and Slavic languages, the Indo-European languages in general, and Proto-Indo-European, though he has also published studies of languages in many other language families. He has also studied ways to associate language families into super-groups such as Indo-Uralic. Kortlandt, along with George van Driem and a few other colleagues, is one of the proponents of the Leiden School of linguistics, which describes language in terms of a meme or benign parasite. Kortlandt holds five degrees from the University of Amsterdam: B.A. , 1967, Slavic Linguistics and Literature B.A. , 1967, mathematics and economics M.A. , 1969, Slavic linguistics M.A. , 1970, mathematical economics Ph.D. , 1972, mathematical linguistics Kortlandt is a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and a Spinozapremie laureate. In 2007, he composed a version of Schleicher's fable, a story written in a hypothetical reconstruction Proto-Indo-European, which differs radically from all previous versions.
  • Frederik Herman Henri (Frits) Kortlandt is een taalkundige, hoogleraar Baltoslavische taalkunde en Beschrijvende en vergelijkende taalwetenschappen aan de Universiteit Leiden. Hij is een van de grondleggers van de eigentijdse evolutionaire taalwetenschap en ontving in 1997 de Spinozaprijs.
  • Frederik (Frits) Kortlandt er professor i deskriptiv og sammenlignende lingvistikk ved universitetet i Leiden. Han er ekspert på baltiske og slaviske språk, indoeuropeiske språk generelt og urindoeuropeisk, skjønt han også har utgitt studier over språk i mange andre språkfamilier. Han har også studert mulige supergrupper av språkfamilier, slik som indouralsk. Kortlandt er medlem av Det kongelige nederlandske vitenskapsakademiet.
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  • Frederik Herman Henri (Frits) Kortlandt is a professor of descriptive and comparative linguistics at Leiden University. He is an expert on Baltic and Slavic languages, the Indo-European languages in general, and Proto-Indo-European, though he has also published studies of languages in many other language families. He has also studied ways to associate language families into super-groups such as Indo-Uralic.
  • Frederik Herman Henri (Frits) Kortlandt is een taalkundige, hoogleraar Baltoslavische taalkunde en Beschrijvende en vergelijkende taalwetenschappen aan de Universiteit Leiden. Hij is een van de grondleggers van de eigentijdse evolutionaire taalwetenschap en ontving in 1997 de Spinozaprijs.
  • Frederik (Frits) Kortlandt er professor i deskriptiv og sammenlignende lingvistikk ved universitetet i Leiden. Han er ekspert på baltiske og slaviske språk, indoeuropeiske språk generelt og urindoeuropeisk, skjønt han også har utgitt studier over språk i mange andre språkfamilier. Han har også studert mulige supergrupper av språkfamilier, slik som indouralsk. Kortlandt er medlem av Det kongelige nederlandske vitenskapsakademiet.
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