Tijmen Pronk (born 1979) is a Dutch comparative linguist. His research focuses on etymology, historical phonology, morphology and prosody, and dialectology. Pronk studied Slavic languages and literature and Comparative Indo-European linguistics at

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, 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

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in their series "Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics". 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. 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 Alwin Kloekhorst (born 4 March 1978) is a Dutch linguist, Indo-Europeanist and Hittitologist. He was appointed a full professor in Anatolian Linguistics at Leiden University in November 2023. Biography Kloekhorst received his Ph.D. in 2007 at ...

, he published a volume on the Precursors of Proto-Indo-European, and has presented some of his ideas on the spread of Proto-Indo-European in various scholarly conferences, including at the 2019

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's Annual Meeting in

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, Switzerland.

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1979 births Living people Linguists from the Netherlands Hittitologists Leiden University alumni Historical linguists Linguists of Indo-Uralic languages Linguists of Indo-European languages Etymologists {{Netherlands-linguist-stub