Person Martin Haspelmath

Martin Haspelmath is a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and an honorary professor at Leipzig University. He co-founded Language Science Press and has made many contributions to worldwide comparative grammar research and is perhaps best known as a co-editor of the World atlas of language structures. He has been interested in reflexive constructions since his first published paper (Transitivity alternations of the anticausative type (1987), published as a University of Cologne working paper).