Guus Kroonen

Guus Kroonen

Professor with special responsibilities, Professor MSO

Member of:

Primary fields of research

  • Historical and Comparative Linguistics
  • Indo-European Studies
  • Nordic Languages and their Linguistics
  • Archaeolinguistics

Current research

  • ERC Starting Grant project 'The Linguistic Roots of Europe's Agricultural Transition' (2017-2022)
  • Riksbanken project 'Towards a new European Prehistory: Integrating aDNA, isotopic investigations, language and archaeology to reinterpret key processes of change in the prehistory of Europe' (2017-2022)

Teaching

  • Comparative Indo-European Linguistics
  • Germanic Historical Linguistics
  • Scandinavian Studies
  • Historical Grammar of Latin
  • Middle Welsh 

Selected publications

  1. Published

    Archaeo-Linguistic Database (ArLiDa)

    Kroonen, Guus, 2019

    Research output: Non-textual formComputer programmeResearch

  2. Published

    Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic

    Kroonen, Guus, 2013, Leiden: Brill. 836 p. (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series, Vol. 11).

    Research output: Book/ReportBook

  3. Published

    Re-theorising mobility and the formation of culture and language among the Corded Ware Culture in Europe: [incl. Corrigendum]

    Kristiansen, K., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Frei, K. M., Iversen, Rune, Johannsen, N. N., Kroonen, Guus, Pospieszny, L., Price, T. D., Rasmussen, Simon, Sjögren, K., Sikora, Martin & Willerslev, Eske, Apr 2017, In: Antiquity. 91, 356, p. 334-347

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  4. Published

    Talking Neolithic: Linguistic and Archaeological Perspectives on how Indo-European was Implemented in Southern Scandinavia

    Iversen, Rune & Kroonen, Guus, 14 Sep 2017, In: American Journal of Archaeology. 121, 4, p. 511–525 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

Selected activities

  1. Beyond Simplistic Narratives: Can Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics go together?

    Kroonen, Guus (Organizer), Haak, W. (Organizer) & Stockhammer, P. (Organizer)

    1 Sep 2017

    Activity: Participating in an event - typesOrganisation of and participation in conference

  2. Trið råðstemną um övdalskų / The Third Conference on Elfdalian

    Kroonen, Guus (Organizer), Hansen, Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard (Organizer) & Sapir, Y. (Organizer)

    7 May 20158 May 2015

    Activity: Participating in an event - typesOrganisation of and participation in conference

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