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Tijmen Pronk
}}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 Leiden University, 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".
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, 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 European Association of Archaeologists's Annual Meeting in Bern, Switzerland. Provided by Wikipedia
The Reconstruction of Indo-European Stop Systems : From the Traditional Model to Glottalic Theories /
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An increasing number of historical linguists now believe that the traditional reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European stop system (*T, *D, *Dh) is likely flawed. Yet, despite various proposed alternatives-ranging from systems featuring glottalised or non-plosive consonants to those based on length contrasts-no single theory has achieved broad consensus. This volume, comprising twenty chapters, brings together leading specialists who examine all relevant data, as well as comparative and typological arguments, to reassess the Proto-Indo-European stop inventory. It also offers the most up-to-date analyses of the evolution of the stop systems across the individual Indo-European branches. Contributors are: Pascale Eskes, Alwin Kloekhorst, Martin Joachim Kümmel, Rianne van Lieburg, Orsat Ligorio, Alexander Lubotsky, Ranko Matasović, Brett Miller, Michaël Peyrot, Tijmen Pronk, Joseph Salmons, Oliver Sayeed, Peter Schrijver, Michiel de Vaan, and Bert Vaux.
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1 online resource (450 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
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