Alwin Kloekhorst

Alwin Kloekhorst is an Associate Professor at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, specializing in historical and comparative linguistics. He has authored four books, two edited volumes, and approximately 50 articles.

• Studied Indo-Iranian Languages and Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at Leiden University (1996-2001)
• PhD in Linguistics (2007) from Leiden University with distinction

Kloekhorst’s research spans Anatolian languages, Proto-Indo-European reconstruction, and other ancient Indo-European languages like Sanskrit and Phrygian. His work combines rigorous philological analysis with innovative methodology, including projects on language contact in pre-Roman North-West Anatolia and the Hethitische Wörterbuch initiative in Munich.

His notable achievements include:

• 2016 ERC HERA grant (Multilingualism and Minority Languages in Ancient Europe)
• 2014 NWO VIDI grant (Splitting the Mother Tongue)
• 2008 NWO VENI grant (Stressing the Facts: Accentuation in Hittite)

Kloekhorst actively collaborates with European research groups such as the HERA project (Rome, Madrid, Ghent, Siena), the Barcelona-based Los dialectos lúvicos project, and contributes to the Indo-European Etymological Dictionary in Leiden. He also serves as a consultant for etymology at the Oxford English Dictionary.