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Harald Hammarstrom
Harald Hammerstrom
Harald Hammerstroem
Harald Hammarstroem
Professor of Linguistics at Uppsala University.
I am a Computer Scientist turned Linguist who is interested in all the languages of the world. I used to work at Chalmers University, Radboud University Nijmegen, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig), the MPI for Psycholinguistics (Nijmegen) and the MPI for the Science of Human History (Jena).
Publications see here.
Current and old projects
- The Center for the Human Past — an
excellence center together with Mattias Jakobsson (genetics),
Carina Schlebusch (genetics), Karl-Johan Lindholm (archaeology) and
Jenny Larsson (linguistics) funded by the Swedish Research
Council.
- The Sumuri language of Indonesian Papua — Documenting an endangered
language isolate funded by the Swedish Research Council.
- Linguistic Diversity Through the Prism of Biodiversity funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation via SciLifeLab for research in Data-driven Life Science, DDLS.
- From Dust to Dawn: Multilingual Grammar Extraction from Grammars a MaW-funded project together with Markus Forsberg and Shafqat Virk at GU.
- DReaM: The Dictionary/Grammar Reading Machine: Computational Tools for Accessing the World's Linguistic Heritage a JPICH-ERC funded project together with Søren Wichmann (Leiden U), Guillaume Segerer (CNRS, Paris) and Markus Forsberg/Shafqat Virk (GU).
- CHRONOS - Chronology of Roots and Nodes of Family Trees a MaW-funded project together with Gerd Carling (Lund U).
- Glottolog a language/reference catalogue, together with Martin Haspelmath and Robert Forkel (MPI SHH, Jena)
Since 1996 and forever more I am a Python Programmer.
Follow the latest developments in top chess at 2700chess.com.
Personal and Fun Stuff
- A couple of pictures of me in the old days of dreadlocks. These are now so old that they are about to be superseded by the
new days of dreadlocks.
- A CV.
- Pictures of me with some top-notch linguists.
- BK Flaket football homepage (ancient, but back on popular demand).
- It has been a while since I last bought records seriously but this was my Record Collection around 2003.
Bibliographies
Contact information
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