Martin Haspelmath
Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (0) 341 3550 271
e-mail:
martin_haspelmath@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
About me
I am a comparative linguist who studies the diversity of the world's grammatical and lexical systems and tries to understand what is universal about them. I am best known for coediting the "World atlas of language structures" (2005/2013), and as a co-founder of "Language Science Press". I am also an honorary (adjunct) professor at Leipzig University.
Curriculum Vitae
| since 2020 | Senior research scientist at DLCE (MPI-EVA) |
| 2015-2020 | Senior research scientist at DLCE (MPI-SHH Jena), ERC project leader at Leipzig University |
| 1998-2015 | Senior research scientist at the Department of Linguistics (MPI-EVA Leipzig) |
| 1994-1996 | Assistant professor, Freie Universität Berlin |
| 1990-1993 | PhD in linguistics, Freie Universität Berlin |
| 1985-1989 | MA in linguistics, University of Cologne and University at Buffalo |
| 1983-1985 | Undergraduate student of linguistics, University of Vienna |