Biography:Dirk Boutkan
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| Born | April 25, 1964 Tilburg, Netherlands |
| Died | January 6, 2002 (aged 37) Leeuwarden, Netherlands |
| Alma mater | Leiden University |
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| Fields | Historical linguistics; Germanic linguistics; etymology |
| Institutions | Leiden University; Fryske Akademy |
Dirk Ferdinandus Henricus Boutkan (25 April 1964 – 6 January 2002) was a Dutch historical linguist and etymologist specialising in Old Frisian and Germanic. He co-authored the reference work Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary (Brill, 2005), volume 1 of the Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary series, and earlier published The Germanic Auslautgesetze: A New Interpretation (1995). He headed the Linguistics section of the Fryske Akademy.[1][2][3]
Life and career
Boutkan studied Dutch and comparative Indo-European linguistics at Leiden University, completing a PhD on Germanic historical phonology and morphology (Auslautgesetze). He worked at Leiden (research and teaching) until 1999, when he joined the Fryske Akademy in Leeuwarden. In 2000 he became head of its Linguistics section.
Research
Boutkan's work focused on Germanic historical phonology (especially Auslautgesetze or development of the final syllables, from Proto-Indo-European to Germanic) and Old Frisian etymology. His Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary, prepared within the Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary project, systematically assembles Old Frisian etyma with Proto-Frisian reconstructions and Germanic/Indo-European comparanda.[1][2]
Publications
Books
- Boutkan, Dirk (1995). The Germanic Auslautgesetze: A New Interpretation. Leiden Studies in Indo-European. Amsterdam–Atlanta: Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-5183-730-8. https://brill.com/abstract/title/30170.
- Boutkan, Dirk (1996). A Concise Grammar of the Old Frisian Dialect of the First Riustring Manuscript. NOWELE Supplement Series 16. Odense–Amsterdam: Odense University Press / John Benjamins. ISBN 978-87-7838-187-3. https://benjamins.com/catalog/nss.16.
- Boutkan, Dirk; Siebinga, Sjoerd Michiel (2005). Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary. Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 1. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-14531-3. https://brill.com/abstract/title/12157.[1]
Reception
Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary has been reviewed in specialist venues, including Book Notices of the Linguistic Society of America[5] and a review noted by Anatoly Liberman in Trefwoord.[6] The work is cited as a substantial contribution to Germanic and Frisian studies.[5][6]
Legacy and data
Authority files recognise Boutkan's authorship and dates (BnF; VIAF).[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Boutkan, Dirk; Siebinga, Sjoerd Michiel (2005). Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary. Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 1. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-14531-3. https://brill.com/abstract/title/12157.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Indo-European Etymological Dictionary (Research project)". https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/research/research-projects/humanities/indo-european-etymological-dictionary.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Dirk Boutkan (1964–2002)". https://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/personal/galeria/boutkan1.htm.
- ↑ "Levensberichten: Dirk Ferdinandus Henricus Boutkan (obituary-biography)" (in nl). https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_jaa004200201_01/_jaa004200201_01_0006.php.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Pierce, Marc (2006). "Old Frisian etymological dictionary (Book Notice)". https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/booknotices/?p=1037.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Liberman, Anatoly (2006). "Review of Dirk Boutkan and Sjoerd M. Siebinga, Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary". https://experts.umn.edu/en/publications/review-of-dirk-boutkan-and-sjoerd-m-siebinga-old-frisian-etymolog.
- ↑ "Dirk Boutkan (1964–2002)" (in fr). https://data.bnf.fr/fr/15031594/dirk_boutkan/.
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