Stefan Müller (linguist)
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, majoring in computer science, linguistics, and computational linguistics at the Humboldt University. 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, the Friedrich-Schiller University at Jena, the University of Potsdam, and the Freie University, Berlin. Many of his publications and the LaTeX code used to typeset them are open-access, and he is one of the founders of the 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