Stefan Müller is a professor of linguistics at the Humboldt University of Berlin specializing in syntax, where he is the head of the German Grammar group ().

Education and career

Stefan Müller was born in Jena in 1968, he studied computer science, linguistics, and computational linguistics, artificial intelligence at the Humboldt University and University of Edinburgh. After this he held various research and teaching positions in the public and private sectors, at the Humboldt University, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbrücken (DFKI), Interprice Berlin (now Semantic Edge), the Friedrich-Schiller University at Jena, the University of Potsdam. He became Juniorprofessor (assistant professor) for theoretical linguistics and computational linguistics at the University of Bremen in 2003 and full professor for German and general linguistics at the Freie Universität, Berlin in 2007. Since 2016 he is full professor for German syntax at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Many of his publications and the LaTeX code used to typeset them are open-access.Publications page at the Humboldt University. In 2014, he and Martin Haspelmath founded the diamond open access publisher Language Science Press.

He was elected a member of Academia Europaea in 2014.

Research Müller's research focus is the empirical description of German and other Germanic languages and the theoretical modelling of these descriptive findings, the relation of this work to linguistic typology, and with the use of the Head-driven phrase structure grammar framework. Because of the implications that typological findings have for different analyses of languages and linguistic phenomena, the description and analysis of non-Germanic languages also feature prominently in the programme - Müller himself works with Mandarin, Danish, Maltese, and Persian.

Publications (selection)

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Editorial work (selection)

Since 2003 Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar https://hpsg-proceedings.org ISSN 1535-1793.

Trivia His Erdős number is 4.

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Private homepage at the Humboldt University Berlin ORCID-Webseite Political Blog for the public election for the Bundestag 2021 in which he run for office stefanmueller.bayern Blog on climate issues hot-climate-topics.net Ost-Blog „So isser der Ossi“ on issues related to East-Germany