Nikolaus P. Himmelmann | |
|---|---|
| Born | 2 August 1959 |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Linguist |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | Austronesian linguistics |
| Notable ideas | language documentation |
Nikolaus P. Himmelmann (born 2 August 1959) is a German linguist. His interests include linguistic typology,grammar,prosody,and language documentation. [1]
He obtained his doctorate at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1986 and habilitation at the University of Cologne in 1995. From 1996 to 1998,he was a research fellow at the Australian National University. Afterwards,he was a professor at Ruhr University in Bochum (1999–2007) and at Westphalian Wilhelms-University in Münster (2007–2010). In 2010,he was appointed Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Cologne. [2]
He is the co-editor of the book The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar (2005). [3]
He was elected as a member of the Academia Europaea in 2018. [4]