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76
Citations
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World Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Martin Haspelmath is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research contributions primarily focus on language and linguistics, with 56 publications in the arts and humanities. Among these, their work spans subfields including language and linguistics, artificial intelligence, linguistics and language, cultural studies, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The main topics addressed in their research include natural language processing techniques, lexicography and language studies, linguistics and cultural studies, syntax, semantics, and linguistic variation, as well as linguistic variation and morphology, and language and cultural evolution.

Haspelmath's recent papers include:

  • The World Atlas of Language Structures Online, 2022, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • World Atlas of Language Structures, 2020, Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens Online
  • The World Atlas of Language Structures Online, 2022, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Explaining grammatical coding asymmetries: Form-frequency correspondences and predictability, 2021, Journal of Linguistics
  • Role-reference associations and the explanation of argument coding splits, 2020, Linguistics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Haspelmath include Robert Forkel, Harald Hammarström, Sebastian Bank, Matthew S. Dryer, and Bernard Comrie.

Haspelmath has published books with notable publishers. These include "Propositionale Argumente im Sprachvergleich / Propositional Arguments in Cross-Linguistic Research," released in 2023 by Gunter Narr Verlag eBooks, and "Lifetime Linguistic Inspirations," published in 2022 by Peter Lang.

In terms of publication venues, Haspelmath's work has appeared most frequently in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), with 44 publications. Additional venues include Linguistics, Frontiers in Psychology, Theoretical Linguistics, and Inference International Review of Science.

Haspelmath was recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea in 2005.

Best Publications

  • The World Atlas of Language Structures Online

    Matthew S. Dryer;Martin Haspelmath

  • The World Atlas of Language Structures

    Martin Haspelmath;Matthew S. Dryer;David Gil;Bernard Comrie

  • More on the typology of inchoative/causative verb alternations

    Martin Haspelmath

  • Comparative concepts and descriptive categories in crosslinguistic studies

    Martin Haspelmath

  • The geometry of grammatical meaning: Semantic maps and cross-linguistic comparison

    Martin Haspelmath

  • Against markedness (and what to replace it with)

    Martin Haspelmath

  • Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook

    Martin Haspelmath;Uri Tadmor

  • The grammaticization of passive morphology

    Martin Haspelmath

  • From space to time

    Martin Haspelmath

  • Approaches to grammaticalization

    Martin Haspelmath

  • Why is grammaticalization irreversible

    Martin Haspelmath

  • The converb as a cross-linguistically valid category

    Martin Haspelmath

  • On directionality in language change with particular reference to grammaticalization

    Martin Haspelmath

  • From space to time : temporal adverbials in the world's languages

    Martin Haspelmath

  • Pre-established categories don't exist: Consequences for language description and typology

    Martin Haspelmath

  • The European linguistic area: Standard Average European

    Martin Haspelmath

  • Lexical borrowing : Concepts and issues

    Martin Haspelmath

  • The indeterminacy of word segmentation and the nature of morphology and syntax

    Martin Haspelmath

  • Ditransitive constructions: A typological overview

    Andrej L. Malchukov;Martin Haspelmath;Bernard Comrie

  • Frequency vs. iconicity in explaining grammatical asymmetries

    Martin Haspelmath

  • Language typology and language universals : an international handbook

    Martin Haspelmath;Ekkehard König;Wulf Oesterreicher;Wolfgang Raible

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernard Comrie
Bernard Comrie University of California, Santa Barbara
Simon J. Greenhill
Simon J. Greenhill Max Planck Society
Maria Polinsky
Maria Polinsky University of Maryland, College Park
Robert Dixon
Robert Dixon University of Sydney
Frederick J. Newmeyer
Frederick J. Newmeyer University of Washington

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