Harald Hammarström
Harald Hammarström (born 1977 in Västerås, Sweden) is a Swedish linguist. 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.
Harald Hammarström | |
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| Born | 4 August 1977 Västerås, Sweden |
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| Alma mater | Chalmers University |
| Thesis | Unsupervised Learning of Morphology and the Languages of the World (2009) |
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| Discipline | Linguist |
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| Institutions | Uppsala University |
| Notable works | Glottolog |
| Website | cl |
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.
His wide-ranging research interests include the historical linguistics and linguistic typology of South America, Africa, and Melanesia.
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