Harald Hammarström
Harald Hammarström 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.
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.
Selected works
- Handbook of Descriptive Language Knowledge: A Full-Scale Reference Guide for Typologists
- Unsupervised Learning of Morphology and the Languages of the World
- Linguistic Diversity and Language Evolution
- Language Isolates in the New Guinea region
- A Survey of African Languages
- ''An inventory of Bantu languages''