Gerrit Dimmendaal

Gerrit Dimmendaal
Born
Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal

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

  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