Maarten Kossmann
Professor of Berber Studies
- Name
- Prof.dr. M.G. Kossmann
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2649
- 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
Associate professor
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
- LUCL T&C van Afrika
- Kossmann M.G. (13 November 2017), 'Berbers is een springlevende taal, ook in Nederland'. Interviewed by Mudde T. for De Volkskrant, Wetenschap. [interview].
- Kossmann M.G. (6 November 2017), Berber in Afrika en Nederland in opmars. for Leidsch Dagblad. [interview].
- Kossmann M.G. (13 November 2017). Van Carthago tot Gouda-Oost: over Berberstudies. [inaugural address].
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