Harald Hammarström

{{Short description|Swedish linguist}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1977|08|04|df=y}}

| birth_place = Västerås, Sweden

| website = {{url|https://cl.lingfil.uu.se/~harald/}}

| alma_mater = Chalmers University

| thesis_title = Unsupervised Learning of Morphology and the Languages of the World

| thesis_year = 2009

| discipline = Linguist

| sub_discipline = {{Plainlist|

• Computational linguistics
• Historical linguistics
• Linguistic typology

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| workplaces = Uppsala University

| notable_works = Glottolog

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Harald Hammarström (born 1977 in Västerås, Sweden) is a Swedish linguist.[https://nias.knaw.nl/fellow/hammarstrom-harald/ Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study ] 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.{{cite web |url = https://glottolog.org/about |title=Glottolog Credits|website=glottolog.org|access-date=2019-12-07 }}

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.{{Cite web |url=https://cl.lingfil.uu.se/~harald/cv_long.pdf |title=Harald Hammarström curriculum vitae |access-date=2020-02-23 |archive-date=2020-01-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200124201007/https://cl.lingfil.uu.se/~harald/cv_long.pdf |url-status=dead }}

His wide-ranging research interests include the historical linguistics and linguistic typology of South America, Africa, and Melanesia.{{cite book |last1=Pawley |first1=Andrew |last2=Hammarström |first2=Harald |editor1-last=Palmer |editor1-first=Bill |date=2018 |title=The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide |chapter=The Trans New Guinea family |series= The World of Linguistics |volume=4 |location=Berlin |publisher=De Gruyter Mouton |pages=21–196 |isbn=978-3-11-028642-7}}