Gerrit Dimmendaal

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
Born
Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal

1955
NationalityDutch
OccupationLinguist
Academic background
Alma materLeiden University
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Cologne
Main interestsNilo-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
  • 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.

References
  1. Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. (2016). "On stable and unstable features in Nilo-Saharan". 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
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