Gerrit Dimmendaal Explained

Gerrit Dimmendaal
Birth Name:	Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal
Birth Date:	1955
Nationality:	Dutch
Occupation:	Linguist
Alma Mater:	Leiden University
Workplaces:	University of Cologne
Main Interests:	Nilo-Saharan languages

Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal (born 1955) is a Dutch linguist and Africanist. His research interests focused mainly on the Nilo-Saharan languages.^{[1] [2]}

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

• The Turkana language. Dordrecht 1983, .
• with Marco Last: Surmic languages and cultures. Köln 1998, .
• Coding participant marking. Construction types in twelve African languages. Amsterdam 2009, .
• Historical linguistics and the comparative study of African languages. Amsterdam 2011, .
• The Oxford Handbook of African Languages co-edited with Rainer Vossen. 2020. Oxford University Press.

External links

• Gerrit J. Dimmendaal

Notes and References

1. Gerrit J.. Dimmendaal. On stable and unstable features in Nilo-Saharan. 2016. The University of Nairobi Journal of Language and Linguistics.
2. Gerrit Dimmendaal, Colleen Ahland & Angelika Jakobi (2019) "Linguistic features and typologies in languages commonly referred to as 'Nilo-Saharan'", Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics