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Dutch linguist (born 1973)
Michiel Arnoud Cor de Vaan
(
Dutch:
[mi?xil
d?
?vaːn]
; born 1973) is a
Dutch
linguist and
Indo-Europeanist
. He taught comparative Indo-European linguistics,
historical linguistics
and
dialectology
at the
University of Leiden
until 2014, when he moved to the
University of Lausanne
in Switzerland. De Vaan had been at the University of Leiden since 1991, first as a student and later as a teacher.
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He has published extensively on
Limburgian
,
Dutch
,
Germanic
,
Albanian
,
Indo-Iranian
and
Indo-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 of
Latin
and other
Italic languages
as a contributor to the Leiden-based
Indo-European Etymological Dictionary
project.
Books
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- with Javier Martinez:
Introduccion al avestico
. Madrid: Ediciones Clasicas, 2001. 140 pp.
- English translation:
Introduction to Avestan
. Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2014.
- The Avestan Vowels
. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 2003. 710 pp.
- (as editor):
Germanic Tone Accents: Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Franconian Tone Accents, Leiden, 13-14 June 2003
(=
Zeitschrift fur Dialektologie und Linguistik
131). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006.
- Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages
. Brill. 2008.
ISBN
9789004167971
.
- with Alexander Lubotsky:
Van Sanskriet tot Spijkerschrift. Breinbrekers uit alle talen
. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010.
- (as reviser/editor): Robert S.P. Beekes,
Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction
, 2nd edn. Revised and corrected by Michiel de Vaan. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2011.
- with Rolf H. Bremmer Jr:
Sporen van het Fries en de Friezen in Noord-Holland
(2012,
It Beaken : Tijdschrift van de Fryske Akademy
, nr. 74).[Conference proceedings]
- The Dawn of Dutch: Language contact in the western Low Countries before 1200
. John Benjamins, 2017. 613 pp.
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