Michael Hammond
American linguist
Intro | American linguist | |
Places | United States of America | |
is | Linguist | |
Work field | Literature Social science | |
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Birth | 30 March 1957 | |
Age | 67 years |
Michael Hammond (born March 30, 1957) was the chair of the linguistics department at the University of Arizona from 2006-2010 and holds the rank of full Professor. He is the author or editor of six books on a variety of topics from Syntactic Typology, The Phonology of English, to Computational linguistics. He is particularly well known for his research on meter and poetics. He has also published more than 40 articles and presented at over 60 conferences on these topics. He was the dissertation supervisor on 21 Ph.D.s and serves on the editorial board of several major journals.