Martin Haspelmath

Martin Haspelmath
Born (1963-02-02) 2 February 1963 (age 61)
Hoya, Lower Saxony
NationalityGerman
OccupationLinguist
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Vienna
University of Cologne
University at Buffalo
Free University of Berlin
ThesisA typological study of indefinite pronouns (1993)
Doctoral advisorEkkehard König
Other advisorsEdith A. Moravcsik
Wolfgang U. Dressler
Academic work
DisciplineLinguistic typology
Sub-disciplineSyntactic and morphological theory
InstitutionsFree University of Berlin
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.[1]

  1. ^ "Home – Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology". www.eva.mpg.de. Retrieved 27 November 2021.