Gerrit Dimmendaal

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Gerrit Dimmendaal

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PhD Linguistics Leiden University

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According to Wikipedia, Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal is a Dutch linguist and Africanist. His research interests focused mainly on the Nilo-Saharan languages. He completed his studies 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.

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The Turkana language (1982) (183)
Current approaches to African linguistics (1983) (121)
Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages (2011) (114)
Number marking and noun categorization in Nilo-Saharan languages (2000) (98)
Language Ecology and Linguistic Diversity on the African Continent (2008) (77)
Logophoric Marking and Represented Speech in African Languages as Evidential Hedging Strategies (2001) (57)
Coding participant marking : construction types in twelve African languages (2009) (52)
Linguistic Fieldwork: Places and people: field sites and informants (2001) (47)
Differential Object Marking in Nilo-Saharan (2010) (37)
Marked nominative systems in Eastern Sudanic and their historical origin (2014) (36)
The Leopard's Spots (2015) (36)
Chapter 3. Pluractionality and the distribution of number marking across categories (2014) (33)
Different cultures, different attitudes: But how different is “the African situation” really? (2015) (33)
Investigating obsolescence: On language death in eastern Africa (1989) (30)
Areal Contact in Nilo-Saharan (2017) (27)
A Linguistic Geography of Africa: Africa as a morphosyntactic area (2007) (17)
Language Shift and Morphological Convergence in the Nilotic Area (1995) (16)
Constraining disharmony in Nilotic: What does an optimal system look like? (2002) (15)
Locatives as core constituents (2003) (11)
Do some languages have a multi-genetic or non-genetic origin ? An exercise in taxonomy (1995) (10)
Social contexts of language death (1992) (9)
Head marking, dependent marking and constituent order in the Nilotic area (2006) (9)
The geometry of verb paradigms in Teso-Turkana (1991) (9)
Metrical structures: A neglected property of Nilotic (2012) (9)
Drift and selective mechanisms in morphological change: the Eastern nilotic case (1987) (9)
Turkana as a verb-initial language (1983) (8)
Tonal Influence on Vocalic Quality (1986) (8)
Violence and political discourse among the Chai Suri (1998) (7)
Metatony in Benue-Congo: Some further evidence for an original augment (1995) (6)
Number-constructions and semantics : case studies from Africa, Amazonia, India and Oceania (2014) (6)
The Role of Bilingualism in Nilotic Sound Change (1994) (6)
Language description and "the new paradigm": What linguists may learn from ethnocinematographers (2010) (6)
Linguistic Features and Typologies in Languages Commonly Referred to as ‘Nilo-Saharan’ (2019) (6)
Converbs in an African perspective (2008) (5)
Nilo-Saharan Languages (2006) (5)
Attitude Markers and Conversational Implicatures in Turkana Speech Acts (1996) (5)
Datives in Nilotic in a typological perspective (2009) (5)
Colourful psi’s sleep furiously: Depicting emotional states in some African languages (2002) (5)
Roots of Ergativity in Africa (and Beyond) (2020) (4)
On Verbal Derivation in Nilotic: The Case of Turkana (1981) (4)
Vowels as complex segments in Nilotic (1995) (4)
Chapter 1. One size fits all?: On the grammar and semantics of singularity and plurality (2014) (4)
2 Language ecology and genetic diversity on the African continent (2009) (4)
A Typological Perspective on the Morphology of Nilo-Saharan Languages (2019) (3)
Haspelmath, Martin and König, Ekkehard (eds). 1995. Converbs in Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Structure and Meaning of Adverbial Verb Forms — Adverbial Participles, Gerunds (1998) (3)
4 Esoterogeny and Localist Strategies in a Nuba Mountain Community (2015) (3)
An alternative approach to Swahili grammar: Review of: Anthony J. Vitale, Swahili syntax☆ (1983) (3)
Bunia Swahili and Emblematic Language Use (2020) (3)
Surmic Languages and Cultures (1998) (3)
Complementizers in Hausa (1989) (3)
Alloying as an Economy Principle in Morphology (2015) (3)
Numerals in Papuan languages of the Greater Awyu family (2014) (3)
Sudan: Language Situation (2006) (3)
Secondary predicates and adverbials in Nilotic and Omotic: a typological comparison (2005) (2)
9 Excite Your Senses: Glances into the Field of Perception and Cognition in Tima (2013) (2)
Reduction in Kore reconsidered (1992) (2)
The emergence of tense marking in the Nilotic-Banty borderland as an instance of areal adaptation (1995) (2)
Cross-ethnic clan identities among Surmic groups and their neighbours : the case of the Mela (1998) (2)
The grammar of knowledge in Tima (2014) (2)
11. Prominence Hierarchies and Turkana Syntax (1986) (2)
Semantic Categorization and Cognition (2015) (2)
6. Ditransitive constructions in Tima (2010) (2)
14. Remote relationships and genetic diversity on the African continent (2011) (1)
Nilo-Saharan and Its Limits (2020) (1)
Historical linguistics in an African context (2018) (1)
6 Studying Lexical-Semantic Fields in Languages: Nature Versus Nurture, or Where Does Culture Come into It These Days? (2015) (1)
The novel as transformation myth : a study of the novels of Mongo Beti (2008) (1)
3 Accretion Zones and the Absence of Language Union in the Nuba Mountains (2015) (1)
Drift and selective mechanisms in morphological change (1987) (1)
Patterns of dispersal and diversification in Africa (2020) (0)
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7 Lexical-Semantic Fields in Tima (2015) (0)
PHILIP J. JAGGAR: Hausa. (London Oriental and African Language Library, 7.) xxxiii, 754 pp. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2001. €200. (2004) (0)
Historical Language Contact in Africa (2001) (0)
4. Morphosyntactic changes (2011) (0)
Language and language family index (2011) (0)
A Linguistic Geography of Africa: Africa's verb-final languages (2007) (0)
Linguistic Isolates (2020) (0)
10 Conversational Styles in Tima (2015) (0)
1. Explaining similarities (2011) (0)
Part I. The comparative method (2011) (0)
The grammaticalization of mood and modality in Omotic: A typological perspective (2013) (0)
11. Language contraction and language shift (2011) (0)
Part III. Studying language change in a wider contex (2011) (0)
3. Classification and subclassification techniques (2011) (0)
Studies in African Linguistics Volume 49 Number 1 , 2020 . Roots of Ergativity in Africa ( and Beyond ) (2020) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
2. Explaining sound change (2011) (0)
5. Semantic change (2011) (0)
Eastern Sudanic (2020) (0)
6. Internal reconstruction (2011) (0)
Language diversification and contact in Africa (2020) (0)
9. Pidginisation and creolisation (2011) (0)
Michael Noonan: A grammar of Lango. (Mouton Grammar Library, 7.) xvi, 352 pp. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1992. DM 228. (1994) (0)
The Comparative Method and Language Change in Accretion Zones (2021) (0)
12. Language contact phenomena and genetic classification (2011) (0)
Part II. The linguistic manifestation of contact (2011) (0)
9 Perception of the Living Dead and the Invisible Hand in Teso-Turkana (2015) (0)
Current Approaches to African Linguistics, Vol. 5 (1993) (0)
5 Some Observations on Evolutionary Concepts in Current Linguistics (2015) (0)
16. Some ecological properties of language development (2011) (0)
Different cultures, different attitudes (2015) (0)
†John Edgar: A Masalit grammar with notes on other languages of Ddrfur and Wadai . (Sprache und Oralitat in Afrika, Frankfurter Studien zur Afrikanistik, 3.) 121 pp. + errata. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1989. (1992) (0)
10. Syncretic languages (2011) (0)
1 By Way of Introduction (2015) (0)
15. Language and history (2011) (0)
Comparative African Linguistics (2019) (0)
Baale (2020) (0)
7. Language-internal variation (2011) (0)
13. Language typology and reconstruction (2011) (0)

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