title: Gerrit Dimmendaal
text: # Gerrit Dimmendaal
  
  Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal (born 1955) is a Dutch linguist and Africanist. His research interests focused mainly on the Nilo-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.
  * The Oxford Handbook of African Languages co-edited with Rainer Vossen. 2020. Oxford University Press.
  