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

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

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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ a b 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. ^ a b 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.