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Nikolaus P. Himmelmann (born 2 August 1959) is a German linguist. His interests include linguistic typology, grammar, prosody, and linguistic documentation.

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.

He is the co-editor of the book The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar (2005).

He was elected as a member of the Academia Europaea in 2018.

References

1. "Prof. Dr. Nikolaus P. Himmelmann". Philosophische Fakultät. Archived from the original on 2020-05-02.
2. "Prof. Dr. Nikolaus P. Himmelmann". Global South Studies Center. Archived from the original on 2020-05-02.
3. K. Alexander Adelaar, Nikolaus Himmelmann, ed. (2005). The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar. Abingdon/New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203821121. ISBN 978-0-7007-1286-1.
4. "Academia Europaea: Nikolaus Himmelmann". Retrieved 8 November 2023.

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