Frederik Kortlandt

Frederik Kortlandt
Kortlandt in 2006
Born (1946-06-19) 19 June 1946
Utrecht, Netherlands
SpouseAnnie Kortlandt
Academic background
ThesisModelling the Phoneme: New trends in East European phonemic theory (1972)
Doctoral advisorCarl Lodewijk Ebeling
Academic work
InstitutionsLeiden University
Main interestsIndo-European languages, historical linguistics

Frederik Herman Henri "Frits" Kortlandt (born 19 June 1946) is a Dutch former professor of descriptive and comparative linguistics at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He writes on Baltic and Slavic languages, the Indo-European languages in general, and Proto-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 controversial Indo-Uralic.

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