Alwin Kloekhorst (born in
Smilde
Smilde is a town in the Netherlands' northern province of Drenthe and lies about southwest of the province capital of Assen. Smilde was a separate municipality until 1998, when it became a part of Middenveld. However, that name changed in 2000 a ...
, 1978) is a
Dutch linguist,
Indo-Europeanist
Indo-European studies is a field of linguistics and an interdisciplinary field of study dealing with Indo-European languages, both current and extinct. The goal of those engaged in these studies is to amass information about the hypothetical pro ...
and
Hittitologist.
Biography
Kloekhorst received his Ph.D. in 2007 at
Leiden University
Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange, as a reward to the city of L ...
for his thesis on
Hittite. In over 1200 pages, his dissertation describes the history of Hittite in the light of its
Indo-European language
The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages of this family, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dut ...
origin. Part One, ''Towards a Hittite Historical Grammar'', contains a description of
Hittite phonology
Hittite phonology is the description of the reconstructed phonology or pronunciation of the Hittite language. Because Hittite as a spoken language is extinct, thus leaving no living daughter languages, and no contemporary descriptions of the pro ...
and a discussion of the sound laws and morphological changes that took place between the
Proto-Indo-European and Hittite. Part Two, ''An Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon'', contains etymological treatments of all Hittite words of Indo-European origin. One of the dissertation's most important conclusions is the confirmation that the
Anatolian languages
The Anatolian languages are an extinct branch of Indo-European languages that were spoken in Anatolia, part of present-day Turkey. The best known Anatolian language is Hittite, which is considered the earliest-attested Indo-European language.
...
split from Proto-Indo-European before all other Indo-European branches, which have undergone a period of common innovations (see
Indo-Hittite). The thesis was published in the Leiden-based
Indo-European Etymological Dictionary project.
Works
* ''Kanišite Hittite: The Earliest Attested Record of Indo-European'', 2019, Leiden – Boston, xii + 303 pp.
* ''Accent in Hittite: A Study in Plene Spelling, Consonant Gradation, Clitics, and Metrics'' (= Studien zu den Boğazköy-Texten 56), Wiesbaden, 2014, xxxvi + 716 pp.
* ''Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon'' (= Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 5), 2008, Leiden – Boston, xiii + 1162 pp.
* ''Hethitische Texte in Transkription. KBo 35'' (= Dresdner Beiträge zur Hethitologie 19), 2006, Wiesbaden, xiv + 353 pp. (together with D. Groddek)
References
Personal webpage
External links
The Hittite Inherited Lexicon
1978 births
Living people
Linguists from the Netherlands
Hittitologists
Leiden University alumni
People from Midden-Drenthe
Paleolinguists
Linguists of Indo-Uralic languages
Linguists of Indo-European languages
Indo-Europeanists
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