Martin Haspelmath | |
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| Born | (1963-02-02)2 February 1963 (age 62) Hoya, Lower Saxony |
| Occupation | Linguist |
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| Education | University of Vienna University of Cologne University at Buffalo Free University of Berlin |
| Thesis | A typological study of indefinite pronouns (1993) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ekkehard König |
| Other advisors | Edith A. Moravcsik Wolfgang U. Dressler |
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| Discipline | Linguistic typology |
| Sub-discipline | Syntactic and morphological theory |
| Institutions | Free University of Berlin Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
Martin Haspelmath (German:[ˈmaʁtiːnˈhaspl̩maːt]; born 2 February 1963 inHoya, Lower Saxony) is a Germanlinguist working in the field oflinguistic typology. He is a researcher at theMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, where he worked from 1998 to 2015 and again since 2020. Between 2015 and 2020, he worked at theMax Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. He is also an honorary professor of linguistics at theUniversity of Leipzig.[1]
Haspelmath is one of the editors of theWorld Atlas of Language Structures and theGlottolog online database, one of the founders of the open access publisherLanguage Science Press, and has worked on theStandard Average Europeansprachbund. Besides typology, his research interests includesyntactic andmorphological theory,language change andlanguage contact.
He is a member of theAcademia Europaea.[2] According toGoogle Scholar, his work has been cited over 46,000 times and he has anh-index of 86 (as of 2025).[3] Very active on social media (Facebook), Haspelmath promotes open access publishing in his postings,[4] and raises bigger cross-disciplinary linguistic issues.[5]
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