Lars Johanson

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Lars Johanson is a Swedish linguist renowned for his influential work on Turkic languages and language contact, and for his critical stance toward the proposed Altaic language family.

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instanceOf academic
linguist
person
academicReputation leading authority on Turkic languages
prominent critic of Altaic language family hypothesis
fieldOfWork Turkic linguistics
language contact
linguistics
typology
hasConcept code-copying model in language contact
hasNotableWorkOn Altaic language family debate
Turkic aspectology
Turkic language typology
code-copying in language contact
contact-induced change
structural factors in language contact
hasWrittenAbout Azerbaijani language
Kipchak Turkic languages
Turkish language
areal linguistics
language convergence
other Oghuz Turkic languages
influencedField Turkic studies
contact linguistics
linguistic typology
knownFor critique of the Altaic hypothesis
research on Turkic languages
research on language contact
languageOfWork English
German
Swedish
Turkish
nationality Swedish
opposesTheory genetic unity of Altaic languages
positionOnAltaicHypothesis critical
researchFocus borrowing and structural interference
contact between Turkic and Indo-European languages
contact between Turkic and Uralic languages
contact-induced grammatical change
supportsView areal explanation for similarities among Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic

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Altaic languages (proposed) opposedBy Lars Johanson