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Kees Versteegh

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Kees Versteegh
Born
Cornelis Henricus Maria Versteegh

1947 (age 76–77)
Arnhem, Netherlands[1]
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Nijmegen
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Nijmegen

Cornelis Henricus Maria "Kees" Versteegh (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkeːs fərˈsteːx];[a] born 1947) is a Dutch academic linguist. He served as a professor of Islamic studies and the Arabic language at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands until April 2011.[2][3][4]

Versteegh graduated from Radboud University in 1977, the subject of his doctoral dissertation having been the influence of Greek on Arabic. He was a lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies until 1987, when he took a position at the Netherlands Institute in Cairo for two years. Versteegh returned to Radboud in 1989, and in 2011 he became professor emeritus.[1] Versteegh's research and views on the Arabic language and its evolution have been described as groundbreaking.[5]

Notes

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  1. ^ In isolation, Versteegh is pronounced [vərˈsteːx].

References

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  1. ^ a b Versteegh, Kees. "CV". Archived from the original on 19 March 2024. Retrieved 19 March 2024.
  2. ^ Biographical note to Versteegh's Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics at Brill Online.
  3. ^ Kees Versteegh at Alibris.
  4. ^ Gully, Adrian (1995). "Acknowledgements". Grammar and Semantics in Medieval Arabic. Richmond: Curzon Press. p. vii. ISBN 0700703020.
  5. ^ Leddy-Cecere, Thomas A. (2010). Contact, Restructuring and Decreolization: The Case of Tunisian Arabic (PDF) (Senior honors thesis). University of Pennsylvania. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 July 2015.
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