!!Martin Haspelmath - Curriculum vitae \\ __Education/Qualifications__ *1996 Freie Universität Berlin Habilitation (General and comparative linguistics) *1990-1993 Freie Universität Berlin, Ph.D. in Linguistics (Ekkehard König, principal advisor) *1989-1990 Moscow State University, Postgraduate Research Fellowship of German Academic Exchange Service *1988-1989 Universität zu Köln, M.A. in Slavic Studies, Linguistics, Indo-European Studies *1987-1988 State University of New York at Buffalo, M.A. in Linguistics *1985-1987 Universität zu Köln, Linguistics, Indo-European Studies, Slavic Studies *1983-1985, Universität Wien, Linguistics, Indo-European Studies, Slavic Studies \\ __Positions held__ *1998-present Member of scientific staff, Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig *1997-98 Visiting scholar at the Università di Pavia *1995 Instructor, Summer Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque, New Mexico, July-August *1994-1996 Scientific Assistant (roughly, Assistant Professor), Department of English, Free University of Berlin *1990-1994 Program Assistant of the European Science Foundation, Program in Language Typology (Director: Ekkehard König, Freie Universität Berlin) \\ __Grants and Awards__ *2007 Academy Prize of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences *1997-98 Heisenberg Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft *1989 German Academic Exchange Service Postgraduate Fellowship for research at Moscow State University *1983-1989 Evangelisches Studienwerk fellowship for specially talented university students \\ \\