Harald Hammarström

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]

Harald Hammarström
Born (1977-08-04) August 4, 1977
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/

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

  1. Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study
  2. "Glottolog Credits". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2019-12-07.
  3. Harald Hammarström curriculum vitae
  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. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 21–196. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
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