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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]

Harald Hammarström
Born	(1977-08-04) August 4, 1977 (age 44) Västerås, Sweden
Academic background
Alma mater	Chalmers University
Thesis	Unsupervised Learning of Morphology and the Languages of the World (2009)
Academic work
Discipline	Linguist
Sub-discipline	Computational linguistics Historical linguistics Linguistic typology
Institutions	Uppsala University
Notable works	Glottolog
Website	cl.lingfil.uu.se/~harald/

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

External links

• Homepage of Harald Hammarström
• Academia.edu
• ResearchGate

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