Martin Haspelmath

Martin Haspelmath
Born	(1963-02-02) 2 February 1963 Hoya, Lower Saxony
Nationality	German
Occupation	Linguist
Academic background
Thesis	A typological study of indefinite pronouns (1993)
Doctoral advisor	Ekkehard König
Academic work
Discipline	Linguistic typology
Sub-discipline	Syntactic and morphological theory
Institutions	Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Martin Haspelmath (German: [ˈmaʁtiːn ˈhaspl̩maːt]; born 2 February 1963 in Hoya, Lower Saxony) is a German linguist working in the field of linguistic typology. He is a researcher at the Max 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 the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. He is also an honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Leipzig.

Career

Haspelmath is one of the editors of the World Atlas of Language Structures and the Glottolog online database, one of the founders of the open access publisher Language Science Press, and has worked on the Standard Average European sprachbund. Besides typology, his research interests include syntactic and morphological theory, language change and language contact.

He is a member of the Academia Europaea. According to Google Scholar, his work has been cited over 32,000 times and he has an h-index of 80 (As of 2021).

External links

• Official website