Martin Haspelmath | |
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| Born | 2 February 1963 Hoya, Lower Saxony |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Linguist |
| Academic background | |
| 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 |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguistic typology |
| Sub-discipline | Syntactic and morphological theory |
| Institutions | Free 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]