Martin Haspelmath (; born 2 February 1963 in Hoya, Lower Saxony) is a German

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 ...

working in the field of

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 ...

. 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.

Career

Haspelmath is one of the editors of the World Atlas of Language Structures and the

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 ...

online database, one of the founders of the open access publisher Language Science Press, and has worked on the Standard Average European

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. Besides typology, his research interests include syntactic and morphological theory,

language change Language change is the process of alteration in the features of a single language, or of languages in general, over time. It is studied in several subfields of linguistics: historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and evolutionary linguistic ...

and

language contact Language contact occurs when speakers of two or more languages or varieties interact with and influence each other. The study of language contact is called contact linguistics. Language contact can occur at language borders, between adstratum ...

. He is a member of the

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. According to

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, his work has been cited over 42,000 times and he has an

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of 86 (). Very active on social media (Facebook), Haspelmath promotes open access publishing in his postings, and raises bigger cross-disciplinary linguistic issues.https://m.facebook.com/martin.haspelmath/

Publications

Monographs

* ''A grammar of Lezgian''. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1993. — 567 pp. — (Mouton Grammar Library, 9) * ''Indefinite pronouns''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. — 364 pp. — (Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory) * ''From space to time: Temporal adverbials in the world's languages''. Munich & Newcastle: Lincom Europa, 1997. — 181 pp. — (Lincom Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, 3) * ''Understanding morphology''. London: Arnold, 2002. — 290 pp. (second edition: with Andrea D. Sims, London: Hodder Education, 2010, — 366 pp.)

Edited volumes

* ''Converbs in cross-linguistic perspective: structure and meaning of adverbial verb forms — adverbial participles, gerunds'' / Ed. by Martin Haspelmath & Ekkehard König. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1995. — 565 pp. — (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology, 13) * ''Language typology and language universals: An international handbook'' / Ed. by Martin Haspelmath, Ekkehard König, Wulf Oesterreicher and Wolfgang Raible. Vol. 1–2. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2001. — 1856 pp. * ''Coordinating constructions'' / Ed. by Martin Haspelmath. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2004. — 576 pp. — (Typological Studies in Language, 58) * ''The World Atlas of Language Structures'' / Ed. by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil and Bernard Comrie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. — 695 pp. * ''Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook'' / Ed. by Martin Haspelmath & Uri Tadmor. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2009. — 1081 pp. * ''Studies in Ditransitive Constructions: A Comparative Handbook'' / Ed. by Andrej Malchukov, Martin Haspelmath and Bernard Comrie. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter, 2010. — 772 pp.

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* Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology 1963 births Living people People from Nienburg (district) 21st-century German linguists Members of Academia Europaea Linguists of Caucasian languages Linguists of Northeast Caucasian languages Morphologists Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology 20th-century German linguists {{germany-linguist-stub