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Martin Haspelmath
Martin
Haspelmath
is a
German
linguist
working
in
the field
of
linguistic typology
. He is a researcher at the
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
, and worked at the
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
in
Leipzig
from 1998 to 2015. He is also an
honorary professor
of linguistics at the
University of Leipzig
.
He is one of
the editors
of the
World Atlas of Language Structures
and the
Glottolog
online database
, and has worked on the
Standard Average European
sprachbund
. Besides typology, his research interests include
syntactic
and
morphological
theory,
language change
and
language contact
.
He is a member of the
Academia Europaea
. According to
Google Scholar
, his work has been cited over 26,000 times and he has an
h-index
of 76.
