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Maarten Kossmann

Professor of Berber Studies

Name
Prof.dr. M.G. Kossmann
Telephone
+31 71 527 2649
E-mail
m.g.kossmann@hum.leidenuniv.nl
ORCID iD
0000-0002-7878-5544

Maarten Kossmann is a Professor of Berber Studies at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. He works on Amazigh (Berber) languages, esp. language description; language history; oral literature. In addition, he is interested in its wider context, such as Amazigh relations to (sub)-Saharan languages (esp. Songhay), its interaction with dialectal Arabic, and the influence of Moroccan heritage languages on Dutch.

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Fields of interest

  • Amazigh (Berber) synchronic linguistics, esp. of eastern Morocco
  • Amazigh (Berber) historical reconstruction
  • Amazigh (Berber) in contact with Arabic and with sub-Saharan languages
  • Moroccan heritage language influence on Dutch

Research

  • Language contact in Northern Africa and the Sahel zone, esp. involving Berber
  • Historical and typological comparison of Berber languages
  • Descriptive linguistics (esp. Berber and Songhay)
  • Berber oral literature

Teaching activiteis

  • General linguistics courses on phonetics, stylistics, language and history, language contact
  • Courses on African and north-African languages and linguistics

Curriculum vitae

2017-present Professor of Berber studies
1994 hD Defense in Leiden (promotores: F. Kortlandt and H. Stroomer)
1990-1994 PhD position in Leiden
1989 First publication on Amazigh linguistics

Key publications

Books by Maarten Kossman
2019. (with Khalid Mourigh). An Introduction to Tarifiyt Berber (Nador, Morocco) (Lehrbücher Orientalischer Sprachen IV, Vol. 1). Münster: Ugarit Verlag, 218 p.
2013 The Arabic Influence on Northern Berber (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 67). Leiden & Boston: Brill, 461 p.
2013 A Grammatical Sketch of Ghadames Berber (Libya) (Berber Studies 40). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe, 200 p.
2011 A Grammar of Ayer Tuareg (Niger) (Berber Studies 30). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 188 p.
2005 Berber Loanwords in Hausa (Berber Studies 12). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 228 p.
2004 De Menseneetster. Berbersprookjes uit Noord-Marokko. Amsterdam: Bulaaq, 287 p.
2000 Esquisse grammaticale du rifain oriental (SELAF 387/M.S. 16). Paris & Louvain: Peeters, 215 p.
2000 A Study of Eastern Moroccan Fairy Tales (Folklore Fellows’ Communications, 274). Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 152 p.
1999 Essai sur la phonologie historique du berbère (Grammatische Analysen Afrikanischer Sprachen 12), Köln: Rüdiger Köppe, 316 p.
1997 Grammaire du parler berbère de Figuig (Maroc oriental) (SELAF 364/M.S. 10), Paris & Louvain: Peeters, 554 p. (= PhD, Leiden 1994).
1997 (with Abdelkader Bezzazi). Berber sprookjes uit Noord-Marokko (opgetekend door Abdelkader Bezzazi, uit het Berber vertaald en uitgeleid door Maarten Kossmann). Amster-dam: Bulaaq, 164 p. + Compact Disc.
1996 (with Dirk Boutkan): Het Stadsdialekt van Tilburg: Klank- en Vormleer. (Cahiers van het P.J. Meertens Instituut 7). Amsterdam: Meertens Instituut, 102 p.

 

Professor of Berber Studies

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
  • LUCL T&C van Afrika

Work address

Reuvens
Reuvensplaats 3-4
2311 BE Leiden
Room number 1.23

Contact

Associate professor

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
  • LUCL T&C van Afrika

Work address

Reuvens
Reuvensplaats 3-4
2311 BE Leiden
Room number 1.23

Contact

Activities

  • Raad voor Rechtsbijstand Voorzitter adviescommissie talen / wel beëdigde tolken en vertalers
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