Ger Reesink Explained

Ger Reesink
Birth Name:	Gerard P. Reesink
Nationality:	Dutch
Occupation:	Linguist
Alma Mater:	University of Amsterdam
Main Interests:	Papuan linguistics

Gerard P. Reesink (more commonly known as Ger Reesink) is a Dutch linguist who specializes in Papuan languages.^[1]

Education

He studied psychology at Utrecht University.^[2] He obtained his PhD in linguistics at the University of Amsterdam,^[2] where he completed his dissertation Structures and their functions in Usan, a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea.^[3]

Research

In the 1990s, he researched the languages of the Bird's Head Peninsula as part of The Irian Jaya Studies: Program for Interdisciplinary Research (ISIR), which resulted in publications such as A grammar of Hatam (1999) and Languages of the eastern Bird's Head (2002). He also dealt with Papuan-Austronesian language contact in eastern Indonesia.^[3]

Publications

• West Papuan languages (2006)
• East Nusantara as a linguistic area (2008)
• Genetic and linguistic coevolution in northern Island Melanesia (2008)

Pacific Linguistics publications

• Reesink, G.P. "Languages of the Aramia River Area". In Reesink, G.P., Fleischmann, L., Turpeinen, S. and Lincoln, P.C. editors, Papers in New Guinea Linguistics No. 19. A-45:1-38. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1976.
• Reesink, G.P. A Grammar of Hatam, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. C-146, xvi + 230 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1999.
• Reesink, G. editor. Languages of the Eastern Bird's Head. PL-524, ix + 340 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2002.
  • Reesink, G.P. "The eastern Bird's Head languages compared". In Reesink, G. editor, Languages of the Eastern Bird's Head. PL-524:1-44. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2002.
  • Reesink, G.P. "A grammar sketch of Sougb". In Reesink, G. editor, Languages of the Eastern Bird's Head. PL-524:181-276. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2002.
  • Reesink, G.P. "Mansim, a lost language of the Bird's Head". In Reesink, G. editor, Languages of the Eastern Bird's Head. PL-524:277-340. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2002.
• Reesink, G. "West Papuan languages: roots and development". In Pawley, A., Attenborough, R., Golson, J. and Hide, R. editors, Papuan Pasts: Cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. PL-572:185-218. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2005.
• Reesink, G. "A connection between Bird's Head and (Proto) Oceanic". In Evans, B. editor, Discovering history through language: papers in honour of Malcolm Ross. PL-605:181-192. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2009.
• Reesink, G. "Prefixation of arguments in West Papuan languages". In Ewing, M. and Klamer, M. editors, East Nusantara: Typological and areal analyses. PL-618:71-96. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2010.

Notes and References

1. Book: Felicity Meakins, Jennifer Green, Myfany Turpin . Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork . 2018 . 978-1-351-33010-7 . Routledge . en.
2. Book: Jelle Miedema, Ger P. Reesink . One Head, Many Faces: New Perspectives on the Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea . 2004 . 978-90-6718-229-4 . KITLV Press . en.
3. Book: G. Reesink . Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics . West Papuan Languages . 2006 . 2020-01-13 . 978-0-08-044854-1 . Elsevier . 555–558 . 10.1016/b0-08-044854-2/04602-2 . https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254867485 . en.