Dr. Roland Rutgers
Roland Rutgers was born in 1964 at Sumaddi in India. Rutgers completed secondary school in the Netherlands at the Christelijk Streek Lyceum in Ede and at the Boerhaave in Leiden. He studied Italian at the Università per Stranieri in Perugia and completed the propaedeuse in Italian at Leiden University. From 1988 to 1992, Rutgers studied Comparative and Descriptive Linguistics at Leiden University. Already as an undergraduate, he began to conduct research in eastern Nepal on the Yamphu language. From 1993 to 1997, Rutgers completed his grammar of Yamphu as a member of the research team of the Himalayan Languages Project.
Selected publications
Rutgers, Roland. 1998. Yamphu: Grammar, Texts and Lexicon (xx + 632 + xvi pages of colour plates = 668 pages). (Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Vol. 2). Leiden: Research School for Asian, African and Amerindian Studies. ISBN 90-5789-12-7.
Rutgers, Roland. 1994. ‘An account of the Yamphu verb’, pp. 564-570 in Hajime Kitamura, Tatsuo Nishida and Yasuhiko Nagano, eds., Current Issues in Sino-Tibetan Linguistics. Osaka: The Organizing Committee of the 26th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics.
Rutgers, Roland. 1993. ‘The Chepang verb: A synchronic analysis with some diachronic observations’, Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 26: 107-137.