Tijmen Pronk
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. T.C. Pronk
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 4168
- t.c.pronk@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-0607-7124
Tijmen Pronk is Assistant Professor and Director of Education at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.
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.
Assistant professor
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
- LUCL VIET
- Pronk T. (2023), Mobility, kinship, and marriage in Indo-European society. In: Kristiansen K., Kroonen G. & Willerslev E. (Eds.), The Indo-European puzzle revisited: integrating archaeology, genetics, and linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 289-295.
- Heggarty P., Anderson C., Scarborough M., King B., Bouckaert R., Jocz L., Kümmel M.J., Jügel T., Irslinger B., Pooth R., Liljegren H., Strand R.F., Haig G., Macák M., Kim R.I., Anonby E., Pronk T.C., Belyaev O., Dewey-Findell T.K., Boutilier M., Freiberg C., Tegethoff R., Serangeli M., Liosis N., Stroński K., Schulte K., Gupta G.K., Haak W., Krause J., Atkinson Q.D., Greenhill S.J., Kühnert D. & Gray R.D. (2023), Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages, Science 381(6656): .
- Pronk T.C. (2023), Славянские существительные u-склонения и их акцентуация [Slavic u-stem nouns and their accentuation], СЛАВЯНСКОЕ И БАЛКАНСКОЕ ЯЗЫКОЗНАНИЕ 23: 383-408.
- Pronk T.C. (2022), 15 - Balto-Slavic. In: Olander T. (Ed.) The Indo-European Language Family. A Phylogenetic Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 269-292.
- Pronk T.C. (2022), The verbal suffix *-nǫ-/-ny- in western South Slavic dialects, Hrvatski dijalektološki zbornik 26: 103-117.
- Pronk T.C. (2021), Indo-European secondary products terminology and the dating of Proto-Indo-Anatolian, Journal of Indo-European Studies 49(1&2): 141-170.
- Matasović R., Ivšić Majić D. & Pronk T.C. (2021), Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika. 2. svezak. O – Ž. Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje.
- Pronk T.C. (2021), The Early History of Western South Slavic, Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie 77(1): 1-32.
- Pronk T.C. (2019), Eichner’s law: a critical survey of the evidence, Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 73(1): 121-155.
- Pronk T.C. (2019), Proto-Indo-European *a, Indo-European Linguistics 7(1): 122-163.
- Kloekhorst A. & Pronk T.C. (2019), Introduction: reconstructing Proto-Indo-Anatolian and Proto-Indo-Uralic. In: Kloekhorst A. & Pronk T. (Eds.), The precursors of Proto-Indo-European: the Indo-Anatolian and Indo-Uralic hypotheses. Leiden/Boston: Brill. 1-14.
- Kloekhorst A. & Pronk T. (Eds.) (2019), The Precursors of Proto-Indo-European: The Indo-Anatolian and Indo-Uralic hypotheses. Leiden Studies in Indo-European no. 21. Leiden-Boston: Brill.
- Beek L. van, Kloekhorst A., Kroonen G., Peyrot M., Pronk T. & Vaan M. de (Eds.) (2018), Farnah. Indo-Iranian and Indo-European Studies in Honor of Sasha Lubotsky. Ann Arbor: Beech Stave.
- Pronk T.C. & Pronk-Tiethoff S. (2018), Balto-Slavic agricultural terminology . In: Kroonen G., Mallory J.P. & Comrie B. (Eds.), Talking Neolithic: proceedings of the workshop on Indo-European origins held at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, December 2-3, 2013. Washington: Institute for the Study of Man. 278-314.
- Pronk T.C. (2018), Czech and Sorbian in the 11th-13th century Judeo-Slavic glosses. In: Kapetanović A. (Ed.), The oldest linguistic attestations and texts in the Slavic languages. Wien: Holzhausen. 246-263.
- Pronk T.C. (2018), Old Church Slavonic (j)utro, Vedic uṣár- ‘daybreak, morning’. In: Beek L. van, Kloekhorst A., Kroonen G., Peyrot M., Pronk T. & Vaan M. de (Eds.), Farnah: Indo-Iranian and Indo-European studies in honor of Sasha Lubotsky. Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press. 298-306.
- Pronk T.C. (2018), Language contact and prosodic change in Slavic and Baltic, Diachronica 35(4): 552–580.
- Pronk T.C. (2017), Review of: Hock Wolfgang, Bukevičiūtė Elvira-Julia, Schiller Christiane, Fecht Rainer, Feulner Anna Helene, Hill Eugen & Wodtko Dagmar S., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (ALEW). Hamburg: Baar. International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction 14: 221-226.
- Pronk T.C. (2017), Curonian accentuation. In: Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen B., Hyllested A., Richardt Jørgensen A., Kroonen G., Larsson J.H., Nielsen Whitehead B., Olander T. & Mosbæk Søborg T. (Eds.), Usque ad radices: Indo-European Studies in Honour of Birgit Anette Olsen. København: Museum Tusculanum. 659-669.
- Pronk T.C. (2016), Early Slavic short and long o and e, Slavia Centralis 9(1): 5–33.
- Matasović R., Pronk T.C., Ivšić D. & Brozović D. (2016), Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika. 1. svezak. A – Nj. Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje.
- Pronk T.C. (2016), Stang's law in Baltic, Greek and Indo-Iranian, Baltistica 51(1): 19–35.
- Pronk T.C. (2016), Dialektologie. In: Sturm-Schnabl K. & Schnabl Bojan-Ilija (Eds.), Enzyklopädie der slowenischen Kulturgeschichte in Kärnten/Koroška. Von den Anfängen bis 1942. Band 1: A – I.. Wien, Köln, Weimar: Böhlau. 253-255.
- Pronk T.C. (2015), Singulative n-stems in Indo-European, Transactions of the Philological Society 113(3): 327–348.
- Pronk T.C. (2015), Review of: Neweklowsky G., Der Gailtaler slowenische Dialekt: Feistritz an der Gail/Bistrica na Zilji und Hohenthurn/Straja vas. Unter Mitarbeit von D. Branz, C. Kircher-Zwittnig und J. Perč. Slovenski jezik — Slovene Linguistic Studies 10: 239-244.
- Pronk T.C. (2015), Review of: Priestly T.M.S. (2014), From Phonological Analysis at My Desk to Linguistic Activism with Slovene in the Austrian Alps. University: Balkanistica–SEESA. Slovenski jezik — Slovene Linguistic Studies 10: 235-237.
- Pronk T.C. (2015), On the origin of the dual endings Tocharian A -ṃ, B -ne. In: Malzahn M., Peyrot M., Fellner H. & Illes T. (Eds.), Tocharian Texts in Context. International Conference on Tocharian Manuscripts and Silk Road Culture, June 25-29th, 2013. Bremen: Hempen Verlag. 199-214.
- Pronk T.C. (25 February 2009), The Slovene dialect of Egg and Potschach in the Gailtal, Austria (Dissertatie, Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University). Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi. Supervisor(s): Kortlandt F.H.H. & Schaeken J.
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