Biography:Guus Kroonen
Guus J. Kroonen | |
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| Born | 1979 |
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| Known for | Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (2013) |
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| Fields | Historical linguistics, Indo-European studies, etymology |
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Guus J. Kroonen is a Dutch historical linguist specializing in Indo-European studies. He is an associate professor at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) and a Professor with Special Responsibilities (MSO) at the University of Copenhagen.[1][2] He is the author of Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Brill, 2013), which has been reviewed in the peer-reviewed journal Diachronica.[3][4]
Career
Kroonen holds MAs from Leiden University (Comparative Indo-European Linguistics) and the University of Amsterdam (Scandinavian Languages and Literatures). He completed his PhD at Leiden University and has held research and teaching posts at Leiden and Copenhagen.[1][2] His PhD supervisor was Sasha Lubotsky, who also supervised the Indo-European Etymological Dictionary project[5] to which Kroonen later contributed the Proto-Germanic volume.
He has led or collaborated on interdisciplinary projects in archaeolinguistics and linguistic prehistory, including the ERC Starting Grant project The Linguistic Roots of Europe’s Agricultural Transition.[1][2]
Research
Kroonen’s research focuses on Germanic and Indo-European historical linguistics, etymology, and prehistoric language contact.[2] He has argued for an 'agricultural substrate' component in Proto-Germanic—non-Indo-European lexical elements related to early farming—set out in a frequently cited chapter on non-Indo-European root nouns in Germanic.[6]
Publications
Books
- Kroonen, Guus (2011). The Proto-Germanic n-stems: A Study in Diachronic Morphophonology. Leiden Studies in Indo-European. Amsterdam–New York: Rodopi (Brill). ISBN 978-90-420-3292-7. https://brill.com/display/title/30165?language=en.
- Kroonen, Guus (2013). Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic. Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-18340-7. https://brill.com/abstract/title/12611.[3]
- Kroonen, Guus, ed (2024). Sub-Indo-European Europe: Problems, Methods, Results. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. doi:10.1515/9783111337920. ISBN 978-3-11-133705-0. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111337920/html.
- Kristiansen, Kristian; Kroonen, Guus; Willerslev, Eske, eds (2023). The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited: Integrating Archaeology, Genetics, and Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-009-26174-6. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/indoeuropean-puzzle-revisited/25D6C8E56082964A6133D70925ADFE29/listing.
Selected chapters
- Kroonen, Guus (2012). "Non-Indo-European root nouns in Germanic: evidence in support of the Agricultural Substrate Hypothesis". in Grünthal, Riho; Kallio, Petri. A Linguistic Map of Prehistoric Northern Europe. Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia 266. Helsinki: Finno-Ugrian Society. pp. 239–260. https://www.sgr.fi/sust/sust266/sust266_kroonen.pdf. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
Reception
Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic received a substantive review in Diachronica[7] noting its breadth within the Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary series.[4] This is a series of texts, by a team of authors centred around Leiden, and intended as an updated replacement for Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, Pokorny (1959).[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Guus Kroonen – Leiden University". https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/guus-kroonen.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Guus Kroonen – University of Copenhagen Research Portal". https://researchprofiles.ku.dk/en/persons/guus-kroonen.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013). Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic. Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-18340-7. https://brill.com/abstract/title/12611.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Pierce, Marc (2016). "Review of Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Guus Kroonen)". Diachronica 33 (1): 144–149. doi:10.1075/dia.33.1.07pie. https://benjamins.com/catalog/dia.33.1.07pie.
- ↑ "Sasha Lubotsky". https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/sasha-lubotsky.
- ↑ Kroonen, Guus (2012). "Non-Indo-European root nouns in Germanic: evidence in support of the Agricultural Substrate Hypothesis". in Grünthal, Riho; Kallio, Petri. A Linguistic Map of Prehistoric Northern Europe. Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia 266. Helsinki: Finno-Ugrian Society. pp. 239–260. https://www.sgr.fi/sust/sust266/sust266_kroonen.pdf. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
- ↑ "Diachronica". John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/15699714.
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