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Frits Kortlandt

Professor emeritus of Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics

Name
Prof.dr. F.H.H. Kortlandt
Telephone
+31 71 527 2501
E-mail
f.h.h.kortlandt@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Research

What particularly inspires me is the large variety of linguistic forms and meanings. Deeper insight into the nature and origin of this diversity requires first of all more research into deviant patterns and meanings in exotic languages and furthermore new conceptualizations in terms of the evolutionary origin and development of the human species. The fact that it has turned out to be impossible to formulate an adequate "universal grammar" is a consequence of both interference of faulty intuitions of researchers and unreliability of naive translations from lesser known languages. Greater emphasis on the empirical side of linguistic science and more attention to the flexibility of meaningful elements are necessary prerequisites for a further development of the field.

 

Publications


See also: http://www.kortlandt.nl/bibliography.html

 

Curriculum vitae

See: http://www.kortlandt.nl/spinoza

Professor emeritus of Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
  • LUCL diversen

Work address

Reuvens
Reuvensplaats 3-4
2311 BE Leiden
Room number 0.34

Contact

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