Rick Derksen
Encyclopedia
Rick Derksen is a Dutch linguist and Indo-Europeanist at the University of Leiden, specialist in Balto-Slavic
historical linguistics, with an emphasis on accentology and etymology.
He's a contributor to Leiden based Indo-European Etymological Dictionary
project, for which he wrote the Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Brill, 2008).
Balto-Slavic languages
The Balto-Slavic language group traditionally comprises Baltic and Slavic languages, belonging to the Indo-European family of languages. Baltic and Slavic languages share several linguistic traits not found in any other Indo-European branch, which points to the period of common development...
historical linguistics, with an emphasis on accentology and etymology.
He's a contributor to Leiden based Indo-European Etymological Dictionary
Indo-European Etymological Dictionary
The Indo-European Etymological Dictionary is a research project of the Department of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at Leiden University, initiated in 1991 by Peter Schrijver and others....
project, for which he wrote the Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Brill, 2008).