Ger Reesink

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

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

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
  • West Papuan languages (2006)
  • East Nusantara as a linguistic area (2008)
  • Genetic and linguistic coevolution in northern Island Melanesia (2008)


Pacific Linguistics publications
  • Reesink, G.P. "Languages of the Aramia River Area". In Reesink, G.P., Fleischmann, L., Turpeinen, S. and Lincoln, P.C. editors, Papers in New Guinea Linguistics No. 19. A-45:1-38. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1976. doi:10.15144/PL-A45.1
  • Reesink, G.P. A Grammar of Hatam, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. C-146, xvi + 230 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1999. doi:10.15144/PL-C146
  • Reesink, G. editor. Languages of the Eastern Bird's Head. PL-524, ix + 340 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2002. doi:10.15144/PL-524
    • Reesink, G.P. "The eastern Bird's Head languages compared". In Reesink, G. editor, Languages of the Eastern Bird's Head. PL-524:1-44. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2002. doi:10.15144/PL-524.1
    • Reesink, G.P. "A grammar sketch of Sougb". In Reesink, G. editor, Languages of the Eastern Bird's Head. PL-524:181-276. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2002. doi:10.15144/PL-524.181
    • Reesink, G.P. "Mansim, a lost language of the Bird's Head". In Reesink, G. editor, Languages of the Eastern Bird's Head. PL-524:277-340. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2002. doi:10.15144/PL-524.277
  • Reesink, G. "West Papuan languages: roots and development". In Pawley, A., Attenborough, R., Golson, J. and Hide, R. editors, Papuan Pasts: Cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. PL-572:185-218. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2005.
  • Reesink, G. "A connection between Bird's Head and (Proto) Oceanic". In Evans, B. editor, Discovering history through language: papers in honour of Malcolm Ross. PL-605:181-192. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2009.
  • Reesink, G. "Prefixation of arguments in West Papuan languages". In Ewing, M. and Klamer, M. editors, East Nusantara: Typological and areal analyses. PL-618:71-96. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2010.

References
  1. Felicity Meakins, Jennifer Green, Myfany Turpin (2018). Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-33010-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. 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. G. Reesink (2006). "West Papuan Languages". Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. Elsevier. pp. 555–558. doi:10.1016/b0-08-044854-2/04602-2. ISBN 978-0-08-044854-1. Retrieved 2020-01-13.
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