Martin Haspelmath

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Martin Haspelmath is a prominent German linguist known for his influential work in linguistic typology, grammatical description, and the development of cross-linguistic databases.

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linguist
person
coEditorOf World Atlas of Language Structures
surface form: The World Atlas of Language Structures Online

World Atlas of Language Structures
countryOfBirth Germany
dateOfBirth 1963-02-16
educatedAt Free University of Berlin
surface form: Freie Universität Berlin

University of Cologne
University of Vienna
employer University of Leipzig
surface form: Leipzig University

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
fieldOfWork cross-linguistic databases
grammatical description
language universals
linguistic typology
morphology
syntax
hasAcademicDegree PhD in linguistics
hasORCID 0000-0003-2127-1305
hasWebsite https://dlc.hypotheses.org/author/haspelmath
hasWrittenOn case marking
causative constructions
grammaticalization
indefinite pronouns
reflexive constructions
word-class distinctions
knownFor contributions to language universals research
development of cross-linguistic databases
grammatical description of diverse languages
work in linguistic typology
languageOfWorkOrName English
German
memberOf Max Planck Society
nationality German
notableWork Indefinite Pronouns
Loanwords in the World’s Languages
World Atlas of Language Structures
surface form: The World Atlas of Language Structures Online

Understanding Morphology
World Atlas of Language Structures
placeOfBirth Hildesheim
positionHeld director of a department at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
honorary professor at Leipzig University
research scientist
researchInterest argument structure
cross-linguistic comparison
grammatical categories
language change
morphosyntactic alignment

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Joseph Greenberg influencedScholar Martin Haspelmath