Dr. Éva Csató Johanson

Biography

Éva Á. Csató Johanson, born in Hungary, is a professor emeritus of Turkic languages at Uppsala University in Sweden and an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She studied linguistics, focusing on Turcology, at the University of Oslo, where she earned a Norwegian degree equivalent to a Ph.D. in 1985. From 1985 to 1989, she served as a research fellow at the University of Oslo and subsequently taught at several universities in Germany, including Mainz and Mannheim, while also being a research fellow at the University of Cologne. In 1998, she became an associate professor and later a full professor of Turkic languages at Uppsala University, where she was appointed professor emerita in 2016. Csató Johanson's research interests primarily include Turkic linguistics, syntactic typology, contact linguistics, documentation, and the revitalization of endangered Turkic languages. She has published over 150 works and has edited more than ten volumes on Turkic linguistic topics. She is also on the editorial board of the journal Turkic Languages and serves as the editor of the Encyclopedia of Turkic Languages Linguistics published online in 2022. Together with Lars Johanson, she produced the revised edition of the standard handbook on Turkic Languages, released by Routledge in 2022. Additionally, she collaborates with the Archaeolinguistic Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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