Michael Hammond (born 1957) is an American linguist and professor at the University of Arizona.
[1] He is the author or editor of six books on a variety of topics from Syntactic Typology, The Phonology of English, to Computational linguistics.
[citation needed] He has also published more than 40 articles and presented at over 60 conferences on these topics.
[1] Hammond received his BA in linguistics from UCLA in 1979 and his PhD in 1984.
His PhD thesis on phonology[2] was published as part of the Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series.