birth_place article_title name birth_date
son en breugel michiel de vaan
 michiel de vaan 1973
michiel de vaan

michiel de vaan -lrb- born 1973 -rrb- is a dutch linguist and indo-europeanist , and a professor at the university of leiden , where he teaches comparative indo-european linguistics , historical linguistics and dialectology .
he has published extensively on germanic , albanian , and indo-iranian linguistics and philology .
he has published more than 35 papers , has written three books and has edited a monograph .
he wrote the etymological dictionary of latin and other italic languages as a contributor to the leiden-based indo-european etymological dictionary project .
