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Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. 1981. on Verbal Derivation in Nilotic: the Case of Turkana: in Thilo C. Schadeberg and M. Lionel Bender, P Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. 1981. On verbal derivation in Nilotic: the case of Turkana: In Thilo C. Schadeberg and M. Lionel Bender, Proceedings of the First Nilo-Saharan Conference, pp. 59-73. Dordrecht: Foris. .1982. Contacts between Eastern Nilotic and Surma groups: linguistic evidence. In John Mack and P. Robertshaw (eds.), Culture History in the Southern Sudan, pp. 101-110. Nairobi: B.I.E.A. .1982. The Turkana Language. Doctoral dissertation, Leiden University. .1983. The two morphological verb classes in Nilotic. In Rainer Vossen and Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst (eds.), Nilotic Studies 2, pp. 269-309. (Kölner Beiträge zur Afrikanistik, 10.) Berlin: Dietrich Reimer. .1983. Turkana as a verb-initial language. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 5:17-44. Hoekstra, Teun, and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal. 1983. An alternative approach to Swahili grammar. 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