Telephone number:	+31 (0)71 527 2125
E-Mail:	g.j.kroonen@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department:	Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics, LUCL VIET
Office Address:	VERZENDING VIA PRIVE-ADRES

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Curriculum Vitæ

• 2008-: Post-doc position offered by Brill Publishers to write an Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic.
• 2004-: Instructor at the Dept. of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics
• 2003-2008: Writing a Ph.D. dissertation on Germanic morphophonology, esp. the n-stems
• 2002-2003: Advanced Master's Programme at the Center for non-Western Studies, Leiden.
• 1998-2002: MA Comparative Indo-European linguistics, Leiden University.
• 1997-2002: MA Scandinavian Language & Culture, University of Amsterdam

Additional functions

• 2010: Board member of the Kiliaanstichting (Kilian Foundation)
• 2009, 2010: Organizer of the Germanic section of the Leiden International Summer School for Languages and Linguistics.
• 2007: Secretary of the Vereniging van Oudgermanisten (Society of Palaeo-Germanicists)      
• 2004-2009: Substrate advisor of Etymologisch Woordenboek van het Nederlands (Philippa et al.)

Taught classes

• Introduction to comparative Indo-European linguistics 
• Historical grammar of Gothic
• Old Norse
• Historical Grammar of Old Saxon
• Old Swedish
• Typology of Modern Icelandic
• Germanic morphophonology
• History of the Dutch language

Invited lectures

• Germanic and its genesis: a revaluation of the Leiden substrate method, Linguistic Map of Prehistoric North Europe, international symposium organized by the University of Helsinki department of Finno-Ugrian Studies, October 16-18 2008, Rakvere, Estonia.
• The origin of the full grade in Gothic iup, The Gothic language: origins, structure, development, international symposium organized by the Institute of Language and Communication in collaboration with the Centre for Medieval Studies, September 18-19 2008, University of Southern Denmark, Odense.
• Non-Indo-European words in Proto-Germanic, The tenth loanword typology meeting, May 8-9 2007, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.
• Substraat in het Nederlands: theorie en praktijk, in collaboration with Michiel de Vaan, Kiliaandag, April 20 2006, Amsterdam.

Other talks

• Root ablaut of the Proto-Germanic n-stems, XIII. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, September 22-27 2008, Salzburg. 
• Consonant and vowel gradation in the Germanic n-stems, 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, August 6-11 2007, Montreal.
• Bogus exceptions to Winter’s Law: on the consonantism of PGm. *deupa- ‘deep’, *balkan- ‘beam’, *stakan- ‘stake’, 3rd international workshop on Balto-Slavic accentology, July 29 2007, Leiden.
• On the ablaut of Gr. νέφος, Skt. ámbhas- and Lat. nimbus ‘rain cloud’, 4th Indo-European Colloquium Leiden-Münster, May 7-8 2007, Leiden.

In the news

• Van bhaw naar boon. By Berthold van Maris. NRC  Handelsblad 12 &. 13 December 2009, Wetenschap, p. 7.