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. with Marco Last: Surmic languages and cultures. Köln 1998. Coding participant marking. Construction types in twelve African languages. Amsterdam 2009. Historical linguistics and the comparative study of African languages. Amsterdam 2011. The Oxford Handbook of African Languages co-edited with Rainer Vossen. 2020. Oxford University Press.