Harald Hammarström (born 1977 in

Västerås Västerås () is a city in central Sweden on the shore of Mälaren, Lake Mälaren in the province of Västmanland, west of Stockholm. The city had a population of 127,799 at the end of 2019, out of the municipal total of 158,653, over 100,000 mo ...

, Sweden) is a Swedish

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

. He is currently an Associate Senior Lecturer at

Uppsala University Uppsala University (UU) () is a public university, public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the List of universities in Sweden, oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries still in operation. Initially fou ...

. Hammarström is especially known for his extensive work on curating ''

Glottolog ''Glottolog'' is an open-access online bibliographic database of the world's languages. In addition to listing linguistic materials ( grammars, articles, dictionaries) describing individual languages, the database also contains the most up-to-d ...

'', a

bibliographic database A bibliographic database is a database of bibliographic records. This is an organised online collection of references to published written works like academic journal, journal and newspaper articles, conference proceedings, reports, government an ...

of the world's languages. Hammarström has previously been employed as a researcher at the

Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History The Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology () performs fundamental research into archaeological science. The institute is one of more than 80 research institutes of the Max Planck Society and is located in Jena, Germany. History Max Planc ...

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, Germany and at the

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (German: ''Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik''; Dutch: ''Max Planck Instituut voor Psycholinguïstiek'') is a research institute located on the campus of Radboud University Nijmegen in Nijm ...

, in

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, Netherlands. His wide-ranging research interests include the

historical linguistics Historical linguistics, also known as diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of how languages change over time. It seeks to understand the nature and causes of linguistic change and to trace the evolution of languages. Historical li ...

and

linguistic typology Linguistic typology (or language typology) is a field of linguistics that studies and classifies languages according to their structural features to allow their comparison. Its aim is to describe and explain the structural diversity and the co ...

of South America, Africa, and

Melanesia Melanesia (, ) is a subregion of Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It extends from New Guinea in the west to the Fiji Islands in the east, and includes the Arafura Sea. The region includes the four independent countries of Fiji, Vanu ...

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

External links

Homepage of Harald HammarströmAcademia.eduResearchGate
1977 births Living people Linguists from Sweden Linguists of Papuan languages Linguists of Indigenous languages of the Americas Linguists of Bantu languages Academic staff of Uppsala University Chalmers University of Technology alumni Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History Computational linguistics researchers People from Västerås Swedish people of Pakistani descent Historical linguists {{sweden-linguist-stub