Harald Hammarström

Swedish linguist

Computational linguistics
Historical linguistics
Linguistic typology

InstitutionsUppsala UniversityNotable worksGlottolog Websitecl.lingfil.uu.se/~harald/

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]

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

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