Tijmen Pronk is Assistant Professor at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

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Research

My current research focusses on the reconstruction of the vocabulary, phonology and morphology of Proto-Indo-European. Most of my publications concern the Balto-Slavic language family, especially Slavic languages, but I have also published about other branches of Indo-European. I am co-author of the Croatian Etymological Dictionary (2016, 2021) and of the Indo-European Etymological Dictionary (ongoing project). My work on the Croatian Etymological Dictionary allowed me to combine my interest in comparative linguistics with that in South Slavic dialectology, about which I have published a number of articles and a monograph. 

Teaching activities

I teach courses about Comparative Indo-European Linguistics and Slavic and Baltic languages in the BA and MA Linguistics at Leiden University and at the Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics. Together with two assistants I have created the Massive Open Online Course “Introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics”, which is available at coursera.org and futurelearn.com. 

Curriculum vitae

I studied Slavic languages and literature (MA 2002) and Comparative Indo-European linguistics (MA 2004) at Leiden University, where I also defended my dissertation "The Slovene dialect of Potschach in the Gailtal, Austria" (PhD 2009). I have been employed at Leiden University from 2003 till 2009 to do research into South Slavic dialectology and Indo-European etymology and to teach courses at undergraduate and graduate level at the Slavic and Indo-European departments. From 2010 till 2014 I was a researcher at the department for etymology and onomastics of the Institute of Croatian language and linguistics. During this period I taught courses at the Universities of Zagreb and Zadar and in the doctoral programme of the University of Rijeka. Since 2015 I have been assistant professor at the Leiden University Centre of Linguistics, of which I am the Director of Education as of 2023.

Publications