Hammarstrom, Ulf Goran Emil

Positions summary

Foundation Chair of Linguistics 1965-1987; Chairman of Department of Linguistics, 1968-1987; Emeritus Professor 1988.

Biography

Ulf Hammarstrom took up the Foundation Chair of Linguistics in 1965, the first chair of linguistics in Australia. A graduate of Uppsala University, he was subsequently employed there as Docent and Examiner in Phonetics, and directed the Phonetics Department from 1956. Between 1965 and 1968 Linguistics at Monash was a section of the Department of Modern Languages and Hammarstrom was its Chairman. From 1968 until his retirement he was Chairman of the separate Department of Linguistics. He was Visiting Professor at Bonn University in 1961 and at Munich University in 1970. Hammarstrom was the author of over 100 publications in phonetics and linguistics. His books include Linguistische Einheiten im Rahmen der modernen Sprachwissenschaft (1966), Fransk fonetik (1970), Linguistic units and items (1976) and Australian English: its origins and status (1980). He served on professorial selection committees both at Monash and other Australian universities and lectured on phonetics at the Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences. Professor Hammarstrom was a foundation member of the Linguistics Society of Australia and was the first editor of its journal Talanya. On his retirement at the end of 1987 Council conferred upon him the title of Emeritus Professor. He died in 2019.

Papers

Personal correspondence and papers of the Linguistics Society of Australia 1964-1982
A small series of two files (1964-1975), one related to Prof. Hammarstrom's appointment to Monash, the other to the Linguistics Society of which he was a founding member. To these has been added a history of the Linguistics Department, published by Prof. Hammarstrom in 1982.