Alwin Kloekhorst#
| Membership Number: | 5061 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.kloekhorst.nl |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-8338-1560 |
| Twitter: | @AlwinKloekhorst |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 - present Associate professor, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
- 2012 - 2019 Assistant professor, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
- 2015 - present Post-doctoral researcher, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Research project: Splitting the Mother Tongue: the Position of Anatolian in the Dispersal of the Indo-European Language Family (Principal Investigator)
- 2013 - 2014 Post-doctoral researcher, Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. Research project: The impact on and by Assyrian merchant colonies in Anatolia
- 2008 - 2012 Post-doctoral researcher, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Research project: Stressing the Facts. Accentuation in Hittite
- 2007 Teacher at the department of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.
- 2002 - 2007 PhD researcher at Research School CNWS, Leiden University. Research project: Integrated Etymological Treatment of the Hittite Vocabulary of Indo-European Origin
Fields of Scholarship
- Historical linguistics
- Indo-European comparative linguistics
- Anatolian languages
- Anatolian historical linguistics
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Grant of € 1.150.000 from the European Research Council for the Joint Research Programme ‘Multilingualism and Minority Languages in Ancient Europe’, € 250.000 of which are granted to the Leiden research unit to carry out the project ‘Language contact and genetic relationship in pre-Roman North-West Anatolia’ (co-applicant; HERA - 15.029).
- 2014 Grant (VIDI) of € 800.000 from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research for the five-year research project ‘Splitting the Mother Tongue: the Position of Anatolian in the Dispersal of the Indo-European Language Family’ (NWO - 276-70-026).
- 2012 Grant of € 21.060 from the Spanish Government for the international research project Los ‘dialectos lúvicos’ del grupo anatolio indoeuropeo (co-applicant).
- 2008 Grant (VENI) of € 208.000 from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for the four-year research project ‘Stressing the Facts: Accentuation in Hittite’.
- 2002 Grant of € 160.000 from Research School CNWS, Leiden University for a four-year employment as PhD researcher.
