{{Short description|Dutch linguist}} {{Infobox academic | name = Ger Reesink | image = | caption = | birth_name = Gerard P. Reesink | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Linguist | spouse = | alma_mater = University of Amsterdam | influences = | workplaces = | main_interests = Papuan linguistics | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced = | signature = | signature_size = | footnotes = }} '''Gerard P. Reesink''' (more commonly known as '''Ger Reesink''') is a Dutch linguist who specializes in Papuan languages.<ref>{{Cite book |author = Felicity Meakins, Jennifer Green, Myfany Turpin |title = Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork |date = 2018 |isbn = 978-1-351-33010-7 |publisher = Routledge |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=LxdSDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT29 |language = en}}</ref>
==Education== He studied psychology at Utrecht University.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |author = Jelle Miedema, Ger P. Reesink |title = One Head, Many Faces: New Perspectives on the Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea |date = 2004 |isbn = 978-90-6718-229-4 |publisher = KITLV Press |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=GD1vAP8JxMUC&pg=PT4 |language = en}}</ref> He obtained his PhD in linguistics at the University of Amsterdam,<ref name=":0"/> where he completed his dissertation ''Structures and their functions in Usan, a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea''.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |author = G. Reesink |title = Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics |chapter = West Papuan Languages |date = 2006 |access-date = 2020-01-13 |isbn = 978-0-08-044854-1 |publisher = Elsevier |pages = 555–558 |doi = 10.1016/b0-08-044854-2/04602-2 |chapter-url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254867485 |language = en}}</ref>
==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.<ref name=":1"/>
==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.
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