Lars Johanson

Lars Johanson
Born (1936-03-08) March 8, 1936 (age 88)
Köping, Sweden
NationalitySwedish
OccupationLinguist
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Uppsala
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Mainz
Main interestsTurkic languages

Lars Johanson (born 8 March 1936 in Köping, Sweden) is a Swedish Turcologist and linguist, an emeritus professor at the University of Mainz,[1] and docent at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, University of Uppsala, Sweden.

He has been instrumental in transforming the field of Turcology, which was traditionally more philologically oriented, into a linguistic discipline.[citation needed] Apart from his contributions to Turcology, Lars Johanson made a number of pioneering contributions to general linguistics and language typology, in particular to the typology of tense and aspect systems and the theory of language contact.[2]

In the period of 1966–2022 he published about 400 titles, books and scholarly articles. His most important books are Aspekt im Türkischen ('Viewpoint aspect' in Turkish), published in 1971, and Structural factors in Turkic language contacts, published in 2002. His most recent publication, Turkic (Cambridge University Press 2021), constitutes a monumental thousand-page survey of all the Turkic languages in their synchronic, diachronic, typological, areal and cultural dimensions. Chief Editor of the four-volume Encyclopedia of Turkic Languages and Linguistics, to be published online in 2022 by Brill. In 2022 he and Éva Á. Csató published the second revised edition of the standard reference book The Turkic Languages (Routledge).

He has numerous publications also on Turkish literature. He was awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Turkey.

He earned his undergraduate and doctoral degree in Turkic Studies at the University of Uppsala. For many years he was a Professor of Turcology at the Department of Oriental Studies of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. Currently he is an emeritus professor at the University of Mainz[3] and a senior lecturer at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, University of Uppsala, Sweden.[4] A symposium in March 2016 celebrated his career achievements.[5]

He is the editor-in-chief of Turkic Languages.[6][7]

  1. ^ "Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. Lars Johanson (Pensioniert)". Archived from the original on 2011-03-14. Retrieved 2014-07-26.
  2. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-03-18. Retrieved 2016-03-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. Lars Johanson (Pensioniert)". Archived from the original on 2011-03-14. Retrieved 2014-07-26.
  4. ^ "Personal - Uppsala universitet". Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  5. ^ "Aktuelles". turkologie.uni-mainz.de. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
  6. ^ "Turkic Languages". Harrassowitz Verlag. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  7. ^ Johanson, Lars (2011). "Grammaticalization in Turkic languages". Oxford Handbooks Online. pp. 754–763. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199586783.013.0062. ISBN 978-0199586783. Retrieved 9 November 2013.