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Harald Hammarström

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Harald Hammarström
Born (1977-08-04) 4 August 1977 (age 47)
Academic background
Alma materChalmers University
ThesisUnsupervised Learning of Morphology and the Languages of the World (2009)
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
Sub-discipline
InstitutionsUppsala University
Notable worksGlottolog
Websitecl.lingfil.uu.se/~harald/

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

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  • 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

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  1. ^ Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study
  2. ^ "Glottolog Credits". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2019-12-07.
  3. ^ "Harald Hammarström curriculum vitae" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-01-24. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  4. ^ 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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