Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal (born 1955) is a Dutch linguist and Africanist. His research interests focused mainly on the Nilo-Saharan languages.[1][2]
Gerrit Dimmendaal | |
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Born | Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal 1955 |
Nationality | Dutch |
Occupation | Linguist |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Leiden University |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Cologne |
Main interests | Nilo-Saharan languages |
He completed his studies (1973–1978) in African studies, Arabic studies, history, and comparative literature at Leiden University, and graduating with a doctorate in 1982. He has been Professor of African Studies at University of Cologne since 2000.
Selected works edit
- The Turkana language. Dordrecht 1983, ISBN 90-70176-83-1.
- with Marco Last: Surmic languages and cultures. Köln 1998, ISBN 3-89645-131-6.
- Coding participant marking. Construction types in twelve African languages. Amsterdam 2009, ISBN 978-90-272-0577-3.
- Historical linguistics and the comparative study of African languages. Amsterdam 2011, ISBN 978-90-272-1178-1.
- The Oxford Handbook of African Languages co-edited with Rainer Vossen. 2020. Oxford University Press.
References edit
- ^ Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. (2016). "On stable and unstable features in Nilo-Saharan". The University of Nairobi Journal of Language and Linguistics.
- ^ Gerrit Dimmendaal, Colleen Ahland & Angelika Jakobi (2019) "Linguistic features and typologies in languages commonly referred to as 'Nilo-Saharan'", Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics
External links edit
- Gerrit J. Dimmendaal Archived 2020-01-29 at the Wayback Machine
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