Dr. A. (Alwin) Kloekhorst

Position:
  • Postdoc
Expertise:
  • Comparative Indo-European Linguistics
  • Hittitology (historical linguistics as well as philology)
  • Historical linguistics and philology of the other Anatolian languages (Luwian, Lycian, Carian, etc.)


Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 2224
E-Mail: a.kloekhorst@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department: Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics, LUCL VIET
Office Address: Witte Singel-complex
P.N. van Eyckhof 3
2311 BV Leiden
Room number 1.06b
Personal Homepage: www.hum.leiden.edu/​lucl/​organisation/​members/​kloekhorsta.html

Publications

Books

Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (= Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 5), 2008, Leiden - Boston, xiii + 1162 p.

Hethitische Texte in Transkription. KBo 35 (= Dresdner Beiträge zur Hethitologie 19), 2006, Wiesbaden, xiv + 353 p (together with D. Groddek).

Articles

The Preservation of *h1 in Hieroglyphic Luwian: Two Separate a-Signs, HistorischeSprachforschung 117 (2004), 26-49.

Hittite hāpūša(šš)- (formerly known as hapus- ‘penis’), JournalofIndo-EuropeanStudies 33 (2005), 27-39.

Review of: AnatolischundIndogermanisch (edd. O. Carruba & W. Meid), Innsbruck 2001, BibliothecaOrientalis 62 (2005), 90-94.

Hittite pai-/pi- ‘to give’, IndogermanischeForschungen 111 (2006), 110-119.

Initial Laryngeals in Anatolian, HistorischeSprachforschung 119 (2006), 77-108.

The Hittite Syllabification of PIE *CuR and *KuR, Tabulaethaeorum,HethitologischeBeiträgeSilvinKošakzum65. Geburtstag (edd. D. Groddek & M. Zorman) (= DresdnerBeiträgezurHethitologie 25) (2007), 455-457.

Review of: J. Marangozis, A Short Grammar of Hieroglyphic Luwian, Munich 2003, Language 83 (2007), 223.

Review of: The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Volume Š, Fascicle 2, šaptamenzu to -ši-, Chicago, 2005, Bibliotheca Orientalis 64 (2007), 429-431.

The Hittite 2pl.-ending ‑šten(i), VI Congresso Internazionale di Ittitologia, Roma, 5-9 settembre 2005 (edd. A. Archi & R. Francia) (= Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 49) (2007), 493-500.

Review of: S. Zeilfelder, Hittite Exercise Book, Wiesbaden 2005, Bibliotheca Orientalis 64 (2007), 685-690.  

Some Indo-Uralic Aspects of Hittite, Journal of Indo-European Studies 36 (2008), 88-95.  

Hittite ‘water’, to appear in TheHeartoftheMatter,FestschriftforJ.J.S. Weitenberg.  

The verb kane/iss-zi and other Hittite s-presents, to appear in the Proceedings of the 12. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft in Kraków.

Čop’s Law in Luwian revisited, to appear in Die Sprache.

Studies in Lycian and Carian phonology and morphology, to appear in Kadmos. 

The accentuation of the PIE word for ‘daughter’, to appear in the Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Balto-Slavic Accentology. 

Lycian mẽti and mẽne (manuscript).   Weise’s Law: Depalatalization of palatovelars in Sanskrit (manuscript).  

Lectures: Initial *h3 in Hittite, Indogermanistische Arbeitstagung Münster/Leiden, 7 May 2004, Münster.  

Hittite kanēszi ‘knows’, 12th Congress of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft ‘Protolanguage and Prehistory’, 11-16 October, 2004, Kraków. 

The Fate of PIE *h3 in Hittite’, Friday Afternoon Lecture, 11 March 2005, Leiden.

Hittite pāi, pianzi ‘to give’, Colloquium ‘Indo-European and its Neighbours’ in combination with 2.Indogermanistische Arbeitstagung Münster/Leiden, 7 June 2005, Leiden.

The Hittite 2pl.-ending -sten(i), VI. Congresso Internazionale di Ittitologia, 5-9 September 2005, Rome.

The Hittite 2pl.-ending -sten(i), Indogermanistische Arbeitstagung Münster/Leiden, 12-13 June 2006, Münster.

The position of the Anatolian branch within the Indo-European language family, Studentenconferentie Taalwetenschap, 13 April 2007, Leiden.

Čop’s Law in Luwian Revisited, 4th Indo-European Colloquium Leiden/Münster, 7-8 May 2007, Leiden.

The accentuation of Greek θυγάτηρ ‘daughter’, Greek and Latin from an Indo-European Perspective, 5-7 July 2007, Oslo.

The accentuation of Lithuanian duktẽ in relation to its Indo-European cognates, International Workshop on Balto-Slavic Accentology 3, 27-29 July 2007, Leiden.

Was machte der von Kumarbi geschwängerte Berg Wāšitta?, Probevortrag im Rahmen der Neubesetzung der W2-Professur für Altorientalistik mit Schwerpunkt Altanatolien, 20 December 2007, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich.

The opening formula of Lycian funerary inscriptions, VII. Uluslararası Hittitoloji Kongresi, 29 August 2008, Çorum.

Weise’s Law: depalatalization of palatovelars in Sanskrit, XIII. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, 27 September 2008, Salzburg.

Teaching Activities

  • 2002-    Responsible for teaching the (historical phonology of the) Anatolian languages within the curriculum of the Department of IE Linguistics and the Department of Languages and Cultures of Mesopotamia and Anatolia at Leiden University.
  • 2003-    Responsible for part of the courses of the LAPP-Top program (Leiden Advanced Pre-university Program for Top students) of Indo-European Linguistics.
  • 2006-2007: Teacher of ‘Historical Grammar of Greek’.
  • Aug. 2007:    Teacher of ‘Introduction to Hittite’ at the Leiden Summer Schools at the Faculty of Arts.
  • Aug. 2008: Teacher of ‘The Hittite Verbal System in the Light of its Indo-European Origin’ at the Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics.

Curriculum Vitae

General
1978 Born in Smilde (Drenthe)

Education
1990-1996 Gymnasium, CSG Vincent van Gogh, Assen.

1996-1997 Propaedeutic, Indo-Iranian Languages and Culture, Leiden University

1997-2001 MA (cum laude), Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, Leiden University. MA thesis: ‘The Etymology of the Hittite Words Beginning with K’.

2001-2002 Advanced Master’s Program (cum laude), Research School CNWS, School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies, Leiden. Final paper: ‘The verb kaness-mi ‘to know’ and other Hittite s-presents’.

2002-2007 Ph.D. (cum laude), Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, Leiden University. Dissertation: ‘The Hittite Inherited Lexicon’. Supervisor: Prof.dr. J.J.S. Weitenberg.

Employments
2002-2007 Doctoral researcher at the department of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, Leiden University (full-time).

2005-2008 Organizer of the Leiden Summer Schools at the Faculty of Arts (part-time).

2007 Teacher/researcher within the department of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, Leiden University (part-time).

2008- Post-doctoral researcher at the department of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, Leiden University (full-time).

Academic positions
2002- Contributor to the Indo-European Etymological Dictionary project (Leiden University), responsible for the Anatolian languages.

2007- Advisor on Hittite etymology for the Hethitisches Wörterbuch-project (University of Munich).

Administrative functions
1998-2000 Student-member of the board of the Department of Comparative Linguistics at Leiden University.
2000-2001 Board member ‘External Communications’ of students club ‘Catena’ in Leiden.

2001-2002 Co-founder and member of the board of student’s club T.W.I.S.T. (for students of Comparative and General Linguistics).

2003-2005 Member of the department’s committee of the Department of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at Leiden University.

2005-2007 Organizer of the Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics.

Awards and Grants
1997 Caland Encouragement Award for Most Excellent Propaedeutic Student of Indology.

2001 Full Grant from CNWS to partake in its Advanced Master’s Program.

2008 VENI Research grant from NWO for carrying out the project ‘Stressing the Facts: Accentuation in Hittite’.  

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