Martin Haspelmath

Martin Haspelmath
Martin Haspelmath
Born	2 February 1963 (age 61); 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]

Martin Haspelmath
Born	(1963-02-02) 2 February 1963 (age 61) 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