Michiel Arnoud Cor de Vaan (; born 1973) is a

Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...

linguist and

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 ...

. He taught comparative Indo-European linguistics,

historical linguistics Historical linguistics, also termed diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of language change over time. Principal concerns of historical linguistics include: # to describe and account for observed changes in particular languages # ...

and

dialectology Dialectology (from Greek , ''dialektos'', "talk, dialect"; and , ''-logia'') is the scientific study of linguistic dialect, a sub-field of sociolinguistics. It studies variations in language based primarily on geographic distribution and their assoc ...

at the

University of Leiden 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 Le ...

until 2014, when he moved to the

University of Lausanne The University of Lausanne (UNIL; french: links=no, Université de Lausanne) in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of Protestant theology, before being made a university in 1890. The university is the second oldest in Switzer ...

in Switzerland. De Vaan had been at the University of Leiden since 1991, first as a student and later as a teacher. He has published extensively on

Limburgian Limburgish ( li, Limburgs or ; nl, Limburgs ; german: Limburgisch ; french: Limbourgeois ), also called Limburgan, Limburgian, or Limburgic, is a West Germanic language spoken in the Dutch and Belgian provinces of Limburg and in the neigh ...

, Germanic,

Albanian Albanian may refer to: *Pertaining to Albania in Southeast Europe; in particular: **Albanians, an ethnic group native to the Balkans **Albanian language **Albanian culture **Demographics of Albania, includes other ethnic groups within the country ...

, Indo-Iranian and

Indo-European 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, Dutch ...

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 Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

and other

Italic languages The Italic languages form a branch of the Indo-European language family, whose earliest known members were spoken on the Italian Peninsula in the first millennium BC. The most important of the ancient languages was Latin, the official languag ...

as a contributor to the Leiden-based

Indo-European Etymological Dictionary The ''Indo-European Etymological Dictionary'' (commonly abbreviated ''IEED'') is a research project of the Department of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at Leiden University, initiated in 1991 by Peter Schrijver and others. It is financially ...

project.

Books

* with Javier Martínez: ''Introducción al avéstico''. Madrid: Ediciones Clásicas, 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 für Dialektologie und Linguistik'' 131). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006. * * 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). onference proceedings* ''The Dawn of Dutch: Language contact in the western Low Countries before 1200''. John Benjamins, 2017. 613 pp.

References

External links

Personal website at Lausanne University
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vaan, Michiel De 1973 births Living people Dialectologists Linguists from the Netherlands Linguists of Germanic languages Linguists of Indo-European languages Academic staff of Leiden University People from Son en Breugel