Tijmen Pronk

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Tijmen Pronk (born 1979) is a Dutch comparative linguist, his research focuses on etymology, historical phonology, morphology and prosody, and dialectology.[1]

Pronk studied Slavic languages and literature and Comparative Indo-European linguistics at Leiden University,[2] where he also passed his viva (in 2009) with a dissertation "The Slovene dialect of Potschach in the Gailtal, Austria". This dissertation was subsequently published by Brill Publishers in their series "Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics".[3]

Pronk is widely recognised as a leading specialist in comparative Indo-European linguistics and Slovene dialectology and in that capacity has been one of the authors of the Croatian Etymological Dictionary.[4]

In recent years, Pronk has widened his academic scope and is now involved in debates surrounding the origins of Proto-Indo-European and its relation with Anatolian languages. Together with Alwin Kloekhorst, he published a volume on the Precursors of Proto-Indo-European,[5] and has presented some of his ideas on the spread of Proto-Indo-European in various scholarly conferences, including at the 2019 European Association of Archaeologists's Annual Meeting in Bern, Switzerland.[6]

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  1. ^ "Home". tijmenpronk.nl.
  2. ^ "Tijmen Pronk". Leiden University. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  3. ^ Pronk, Tijmen (January 1, 2009). The Slovene Dialect of Egg and Potschach in the Gailtal, Austria. Brill Rodopi. ISBN 9789042027756. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via brill.com.
  4. ^ "Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje". Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  5. ^ The Precursors of Proto-Indo-European: The Indo-Anatolian and Indo-Uralic Hypotheses. Brill Rodopi. October 7, 2019. ISBN 9789004409354. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via brill.com.
  6. ^ "Data" (PDF). setdlrp.ro. 2019. Retrieved 2020-06-03.