Martin Haspelmath
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Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath (born 1963) is a German linguist working in the field of linguistic typology. He is one of the editors of the World Atlas of Language Structures, and has worked on the Standard Average European sprachbund. Besides typology, his research interests include syntactic and morphological theory, language change and language contact. Currently, Haspelmath is the a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig.