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Place of Birth: Köping, Västmanland County, Sweden
About Lars Johanson
- Lars Johanson (born 8 March 1936 in Köping, Sweden) is a Swedish Turcologist and linguist, an emeritus professor at the University of Mainz, 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.
- 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.In the period of 1966–2015 he published more than 300 titles, books and scholarly articles.
- His most important books are Aspekt im Türkischen ('View point aspect' in Turkish), published in 1971, and Structural factors in Turkic language contacts, published in 2002. 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 and a senior lecturer at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, University of Uppsala, Sweden.
- A symposium in March 2016 celebrated his career achievements.He is the editor-in-chief of Turkic Languages.
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