Gerrit J Dimmendaal
Biographic Data
| ID | 162534 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerrit J Dimmendaal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerrit J |
| FAMILY NAME | Dimmendaal |
| SIGNATURE | DIMMENDAAL G J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cologne |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-2287-2255 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
General overview of Nilo-Saharan
This chapter introduces the expanse of the Nilo-Saharan region, the language family that spread across Central and Eastern Africa. It lists the range of languages and language groups within the region such as Kunama, Eastern Sudanic, Nara, Berta, Nilotic, and Surmic. The geographical spread probably reflects the chronological and historical diffusion of the ancestral languages from the west. The chapter also notes how scholars often argue the spe…
The Oxford Handbook of African Languages
This book provides a comprehensive overview of current research in African languages, drawing on insights from anthropological linguistics, typology, historical and comparative linguistics, and sociolinguistics. Africa is believed to host at least one-third of the world’s languages, usually classified into four phyla—Niger-Congo, Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan, and Khoisan—which are then subdivided into further families and subgroupings. This volume …
Oxford Handbook of African Languages
Bunia Swahili and Emblematic Language Use
The present paper provides first insights into emblematic language use in Bunia Swahili, a variety of the Bantu language Swahili as spoken in and around the city of Bunia inIturi Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Structural variability in Bunia Swahili shows that this language variety consists of basilectal, mesolectal and acrolectal registers, which are used by speakers to express different social identities. Whereas the basilectal var…
Roots of Ergativity in Africa (and Beyond)
In the literature, it is often assumed that ergative constructions originate in passive constructions. The present contribution explores the likelihood of such a passive-to-ergative analysis for one language (Tima, Niger-Congo, Sudan), showing that this analysis cannot be substantiated and suggesting an origin in active constructions instead. This study is situated in its areal context (outlining similarities to split case marking systems across …
Nilo-Saharan
Language Ecology and Linguistic Diversity on the African Continent
Africanists have been criticized by comparative linguists working on language families in other parts of the world for being lumpers. The present contribution reviews current views among specialists on genetic diversity on the African continent. In addition, some of the causal mechanisms behind this language diversity are investigated. More specifically, the role played by innovations in subsistence economies and climatological changes is discuss…
Number
Number. Greville G. Corbett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xix. 358 pp
Colourful psi’s sleep furiously: Depicting emotional states in some African languages
This study sets out to investigate the “poetry of grammar”, more specifically the role of the body in figurative speech, in African languages mainly belonging to Nilotic and Bantu. Apprehending the semantics and pragmatics of metaphorical and metonymic expressions in these languages presupposes an interaction between a number of cognitive processes, as argued below. Interestingly, these languages seem to use these strategies involving figurative …
Logophoric Marking and Represented Speech in African Languages as Evidential Hedging Strategies
Logophoric markers are common in two African language families, Niger–Congo and Nilo-Saharan. In addition, they are found in neighbouring Afroasiatic languages. Similar markers have been observed, for example, for Indo-European languages or Japanese. In contrast with a widespread view, I claim that the status of logophoric markers in these African languages differs from that in the latter languages in a number of respects. This, I argue, has impo…
Logophoric Marking and Represented Speech in African Languages as Evidential Hedging Strategies
Logophoric markers are common in two African language families, Niger–Congo and Nilo-Saharan. In addition, they are found in neighbouring Afroasiatic languages. Similar markers have been observed, for example, for Indo-European languages or Japanese. In contrast with a widespread view, I claim that the status of logophoric markers in these African languages differs from that in the latter languages in a number of respects. This, I argue, has impo…
Attitude Markers and Conversational Implicatures in Turkana Speech Acts
Turkana has a set of particles expressing attitudes on the part of the speaker towards the propositional content of utterances in which such markers are used. Attitude markers in Turkana form a closed set whose distributional behavior partly follows from syntactic principles of the language. The absence of these attitude markers from certain syntactic positions follows from their lexical meaning and from pragmatic structure. Their current meaning…
Petr Zima, Lexique dendi (Songhay) (Djougou, Bénin), avec un index français–dendi. Westafrikanische Studien, Frankfurter Beiträge zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte 4, Cologne: Köppe, 1994, 321 pp., ISB…
Petr Zima, Lexique dendi (Songhay) (Djougou, Bénin), avec un index français–dendi. Westafrikanische Studien, Frankfurter Beiträge zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte 4, Cologne: Köppe, 1994, 321 pp., ISBN 3 9227620 45 9. - Volume 66 Issue 4
On Language
Reduction in Kore reconsidered
Current Approaches to African Linguistics, 3
An alternative approach to Swahili grammar
Language Ecology and Linguistic Diversity on the African Continent
Africanists have been criticized by comparative linguists working on language families in other parts of the world for being lumpers. The present contribution reviews current views among specialists on genetic diversity on the African continent. In addition, some of the causal mechanisms behind this language diversity are investigated. More specifically, the role played by innovations in subsistence economies and climatological changes is discuss…
Logophoric Marking and Represented Speech in African Languages as Evidential Hedging Strategies
Logophoric markers are common in two African language families, Niger–Congo and Nilo-Saharan. In addition, they are found in neighbouring Afroasiatic languages. Similar markers have been observed, for example, for Indo-European languages or Japanese. In contrast with a widespread view, I claim that the status of logophoric markers in these African languages differs from that in the latter languages in a number of respects. This, I argue, has impo…
An alternative approach to Swahili grammar
An alternative approach to Swahili grammar
Current Approaches to African Linguistics, 3
Reduction in Kore reconsidered
On Language
Attitude Markers and Conversational Implicatures in Turkana Speech Acts
Turkana has a set of particles expressing attitudes on the part of the speaker towards the propositional content of utterances in which such markers are used. Attitude markers in Turkana form a closed set whose distributional behavior partly follows from syntactic principles of the language. The absence of these attitude markers from certain syntactic positions follows from their lexical meaning and from pragmatic structure. Their current meaning…
Petr Zima, Lexique dendi (Songhay) (Djougou, Bénin), avec un index français–dendi. Westafrikanische Studien, Frankfurter Beiträge zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte 4, Cologne: Köppe, 1994, 321 pp., ISB…
Petr Zima, Lexique dendi (Songhay) (Djougou, Bénin), avec un index français–dendi. Westafrikanische Studien, Frankfurter Beiträge zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte 4, Cologne: Köppe, 1994, 321 pp., ISBN 3 9227620 45 9. - Volume 66 Issue 4
Logophoric Marking and Represented Speech in African Languages as Evidential Hedging Strategies
Logophoric markers are common in two African language families, Niger–Congo and Nilo-Saharan. In addition, they are found in neighbouring Afroasiatic languages. Similar markers have been observed, for example, for Indo-European languages or Japanese. In contrast with a widespread view, I claim that the status of logophoric markers in these African languages differs from that in the latter languages in a number of respects. This, I argue, has impo…
Logophoric Marking and Represented Speech in African Languages as Evidential Hedging Strategies
Logophoric markers are common in two African language families, Niger–Congo and Nilo-Saharan. In addition, they are found in neighbouring Afroasiatic languages. Similar markers have been observed, for example, for Indo-European languages or Japanese. In contrast with a widespread view, I claim that the status of logophoric markers in these African languages differs from that in the latter languages in a number of respects. This, I argue, has impo…
Colourful psi’s sleep furiously: Depicting emotional states in some African languages
This study sets out to investigate the “poetry of grammar”, more specifically the role of the body in figurative speech, in African languages mainly belonging to Nilotic and Bantu. Apprehending the semantics and pragmatics of metaphorical and metonymic expressions in these languages presupposes an interaction between a number of cognitive processes, as argued below. Interestingly, these languages seem to use these strategies involving figurative …
Number
Number. Greville G. Corbett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xix. 358 pp
Language Ecology and Linguistic Diversity on the African Continent
Africanists have been criticized by comparative linguists working on language families in other parts of the world for being lumpers. The present contribution reviews current views among specialists on genetic diversity on the African continent. In addition, some of the causal mechanisms behind this language diversity are investigated. More specifically, the role played by innovations in subsistence economies and climatological changes is discuss…
Nilo-Saharan
The Oxford Handbook of African Languages
This book provides a comprehensive overview of current research in African languages, drawing on insights from anthropological linguistics, typology, historical and comparative linguistics, and sociolinguistics. Africa is believed to host at least one-third of the world’s languages, usually classified into four phyla—Niger-Congo, Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan, and Khoisan—which are then subdivided into further families and subgroupings. This volume …
Oxford Handbook of African Languages
Bunia Swahili and Emblematic Language Use
The present paper provides first insights into emblematic language use in Bunia Swahili, a variety of the Bantu language Swahili as spoken in and around the city of Bunia inIturi Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Structural variability in Bunia Swahili shows that this language variety consists of basilectal, mesolectal and acrolectal registers, which are used by speakers to express different social identities. Whereas the basilectal var…
Roots of Ergativity in Africa (and Beyond)
In the literature, it is often assumed that ergative constructions originate in passive constructions. The present contribution explores the likelihood of such a passive-to-ergative analysis for one language (Tima, Niger-Congo, Sudan), showing that this analysis cannot be substantiated and suggesting an origin in active constructions instead. This study is situated in its areal context (outlining similarities to split case marking systems across …
General overview of Nilo-Saharan
This chapter introduces the expanse of the Nilo-Saharan region, the language family that spread across Central and Eastern Africa. It lists the range of languages and language groups within the region such as Kunama, Eastern Sudanic, Nara, Berta, Nilotic, and Surmic. The geographical spread probably reflects the chronological and historical diffusion of the ancestral languages from the west. The chapter also notes how scholars often argue the spe…
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