Ger P Reesink

Biographic Data

ID1284564
NAMEGer P Reesink
GIVEN NAMESGer P
FAMILY NAMEReesink
SIGNATUREREESINK G P
AFFILIATIONSRadboud University Nijmegen
ORCID0000-0002-8724-7887
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS24
AUTHOR COUNT14
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • Grambank reveals the importance of genealogical constraints on linguistic diversity and highlights the impact of language loss

    Hedvig Skirgård, Hannah J Haynie et al.PREPRINT2022

    While global patterns of human genetic diversity are increasingly well characterized, the diversity of human languages remains less systematically described. Here we outline the Grambank database. With over 400,000 data points and 2,400 languages, Grambank is the largest comparative grammatical database available. The comprehensiveness of Grambank allows us to quantify the relative effects of genealogical inheritance and geographic proximity on t…

  • Lexicon and syntax from an emic viewpoint

    Ger P ReesinkARTICLEStudies in Language2008

    Each language has its own limited inventory of constructions from which speakers have to choose when they want to communicate their conceptualizations. This paper discusses a highly productive complex figure construction (Croft 2001:326) in the Papuan language Moi, which requires a number of different translations in English. In both SVO and SOV Papuan languages perceived events are normally expressed in coordinating complex figure constructions,…

  • Structural Phylogeny in Historical Linguistics: Methodological Explorations Applied in Island Melanesia

    Open AccessMatthew Dunn, Michael Dunn et al.ARTICLELanguage2008Cited by: 24References: 13

    Using various methods derived from evolutionary biology, including maximum parsimony and Bayesian phylogenetic analysis, we tackle the question of the relationships among a group of Papuan isolate languages that have hitherto resisted accepted attempts at demonstration of interrelatedness. Instead of using existing vocabulary-based methods, which cannot be applied to these languages due to the paucity of shared lexemes, we created a database of S…

  • One Head, Many Faces: New Perspectives on the Bird’s Head Peninsula of New Guinea

    Ger P Reesink, G ReesinkBOOKOne Head, Many Faces2004

    The Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea covers some 30,000 square kilometres of enormously varied landscape. Although it is home to an indigenous population of just 114,000, these people share more than twenty languages. Wider knowledge of the peninsula was recently gained through an extensive interdisciplinary research project (ISIR) involving anthropologists, archaeologists, botanists, demographers, geologists, linguists, and specialists in pub…

  • Shifting notions of witchcraft and adat

    Jelle Miedema, Ger Reesink et al.CHAPTEROne Head, Many Faces2004

  • A Grammar of Hatam, Bird's Head Peninsula, Irian Jaya

    M Donohue, Ger P ReesinkARTICLEOceanic Linguistics2003

    The area of the Hatam in the eastern Bird's Head in relation to the Cenderawasih Bay Map 2 Approximate locations of Hatam dialects 1 2 Phonology 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 4.1.1Possessives 80 4.1.2Adjectives 82 4.1.3Quantification 82 4.1.4Determiners 83 4.2 Non-verbal predications 84 4.3 Impersonal predicates 86 4.4 Clause constituents 87 4.4.1 Temporal adverbials 87 4.4.2Subject 87 4.4.3Object 4.4.4BeneficiarylRecipient = bak-c…

  • Clause-final negation: Structure and Interpretation

    Ger P ReesinkARTICLEFunctions of Language2003

    Negation in a number of Austronesian and Papuan languages with SVO order is expressed by a rather rigid clause-final position of the negative adverb. Some typological generalizations for negation are reviewed and the distribution of this trait in languages of different stocks is discussed, arguing that it most likely originates in Papuan languages. Some proposals for different types of negation, such as whether it is a verbal (or VP) operator, a …

  • The East Papuan Languages: A Preliminary Typological Appraisal

    Matthew Dunn, Michael Dunn et al.ARTICLEOceanic Linguistics2002

    Trus paper examines the Papuan languages of Island Melanesia, with a view to considering their typological similarities and diferences. The East Papuan lzmguages are thought to be the descendants of the Iiu~guages spoken by the original inhabitants of Island Melanesia, who arrived in the area up to 50,000 years ago. The Oceanic Austronesian languages are thought to have come into the area with the Lapita peoples 3,500yearsago. With this historica…

  • Topics in Descriptive Austronesian Linguistics

    Sander Adelaar, Ger P ReesinkARTICLEOceanic Linguistics1999

  • Studies in Irian Languages, Pt. 1

    Joel Bradshaw, Ger Reesink et al.ARTICLEOceanic Linguistics1997

  • The Role of Theory in Language Description

    Ger P Reesink, William A FoleyARTICLEOceanic Linguistics1994

  • Ku Waru; Language and Segmentary Politics in the Western Nebilyer Valley, Papua New Guinea

    Ger P Reesink, F Merlan et al.ARTICLEOceanic Linguistics1993

  • The Empty Place: Poetry, Space, and Being among the Foi of Papua New Guinea

    Ger P Reesink, James F WeinerARTICLEOceanic Linguistics1992

  • Switch Reference and Topicality Hierarchies

    Ger P ReesinkARTICLEStudies in Language1983

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