Tijmen Pronk
List of John Benjamins publications in which Tijmen Pronk is involved.
Articles
2025 Tonogenesis and tone renewal in Baltic and Slavic languages Diachrony of Tone, Auderset, Sandra, Rikker Dockum and Ryan Gehrmann (eds.), pp. 428–450 | Article
This article discusses the rise of new tones in Baltic and Slavic languages. It draws attention to the underlying mechanisms in the rise of these new tones and adduces typological parallels for some of the sound changes involved. It is argued that two processes played a crucial role in… read more
2018 Language contact and prosodic change in Slavic and Baltic Diachronica 35:4, pp. 552–580 | Article
This paper discusses several Slavic and Baltic dialects which have undergone stress shifts as a result of language contact. Two types of change are discussed: (1) stress retractions from the final syllable onto the initial syllable of a prosodic word, and (2) the rise of fixed stress replacing… read more