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Cornelis Henricus Maria "Kees" Versteegh (; born 1947) is a
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. He served as a professor of
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and the
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at
Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University (abbreviated as RU, nl, Radboud Universiteit , formerly ''Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen'') is a public research university located in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The university bears the name of Saint Radboud, a 9th century ...
in the
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until April 2011. Versteegh graduated from Radboud University in 1977, the subject of his doctoral dissertation having been the influence of
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on Arabic. He was a lecturer in the Department of
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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
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. Versteegh's research and views on the Arabic language and its evolution have been described as groundbreaking.Thomas A. Leddy-Cecere, ''Contact, Restructuring and Decreolization: The Case of Tunisian Arabic'', pg. 5. Senior honors thesis,
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, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literature, 2010.


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