Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig

Tel.: +49 (341) 3550 - 307
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  Email: haspelmteva.mpg.de

Office: U1.16

Martin Haspelmath is the second most senior scientist in the linguistics department of MPI-EVA. He studied linguistics in Vienna, Cologne, Buffalo and Moscow, and received his Ph.D. and habilitation degrees from the Freie Universität Berlin. Before moving to Leipzig in 1998, he worked at the Otto-Friedrichs-Universität Bamberg and the Università degli Studi di Pavia.

His research interests in linguistics are primarily in broadly comparative and historical morphology and syntax as well as language contact. He started out with a focus on European languages ("The European linguistic area", 2001), in particular Lezgian (A grammar of Lezgian, 1993), but more recently he sees himself as a generalist whose primary concern is the discovery and explanation of linguistic universals (The World Atlas of Language Structures, 2005; "Parametric versus functional explanation of syntactic universals", to appear 2007).

Curriculum Vitae
Publications
Papers and Handouts
Loanword Typology
Ditransitive Project
Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures
World Atlas of Language Structure > World Atlas of Language Structures
Teaching