Ger Reesink

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

Ger Reesink
Born
Gerard P. Reesink
NationalityDutch
OccupationLinguist
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Amsterdam
Academic work
Main interestsPapuan linguistics

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
  • A grammar of Hatam (1999)
  • Languages of the eastern Bird's Head (2002)
  • West Papuan languages (2006)
  • East Nusantara as a linguistic area (2008)
  • Genetic and linguistic coevolution in northern Island Melanesia (2008)

References
  1. Felicity Meakins, Jennifer Green, Myfany Turpin (2018). "Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork". Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-33010-7.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. Jelle Miedema, Ger P. Reesink (2004). "One Head, Many Faces: New Perspectives on the Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea". KITLV Press. ISBN 978-90-6718-229-4.
  3. G. Reesink (2006). "West Papuan Languages". Elsevier. pp. 555–558. doi:10.1016/b0-08-044854-2/04602-2. ISBN 978-0-08-044854-1. Retrieved 2020-01-13.
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