Harald Hammarström
Harald Hammarström | |
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| Born | August 4, 1977 |
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| Alma mater | Chalmers University |
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| Discipline | Linguist |
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| Institutions | Uppsala University |
| Notable works | Glottolog |
| Website | cl |
Harald Hammarström (born 1977 in Västerås, Sweden) is a Swedish linguist.[1] He is currently an Associate Senior Lecturer at Uppsala University. Hammarström is especially known for his extensive work on curating Glottolog, a bibliographic database of the world's languages.[2]
Hammarström has previously been employed as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany and at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, in Nijmegen, Netherlands.[3]
His wide-ranging research interests include the historical linguistics and linguistic typology of South America, Africa, and Melanesia.[4]
Selected works
- Handbook of Descriptive Language Knowledge: A Full-Scale Reference Guide for Typologists (2007)
- Unsupervised Learning of Morphology and the Languages of the World (2009)
- Linguistic Diversity and Language Evolution (2016)
- Language Isolates in the New Guinea region (2017)
- A Survey of African Languages (2018)
- An inventory of Bantu languages (2019)
References
- ^ Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study
- ^ "Glottolog Credits". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2019-12-07.
- ^ Harald Hammarström curriculum vitae
- ^ Pawley, Andrew; Hammarström, Harald (2018). "The Trans New Guinea family". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 21–196. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
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