Fred Karlsson
Fred Karlsson (born February 17, 1946 in Turku ) is a Finnish linguist and professor at the University of Helsinki .
Karlsson grew up in his hometown Turku and completed his school career there. He then studied at the Swedish-speaking Åbo Akademi (degree: MA ) until 1969 before moving to the Finnish-speaking University of Turku for his doctorate . Since 1980 he has been Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Helsinki . In 1989 he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea .
In the field of computational linguistics , Karlsson developed Constraint Grammar (CG), a method for the automated morphological and syntactic analysis of texts. This method can be used in different languages.
Furthermore, he has dealt with historical linguistics for the area of Nordic languages.
Although Fred Karlsson belongs to the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland, his Finnish grammar is considered a standard work.
Web links
- Karlsson's website at Helsinki University
- Jussi Niemi, Urho Määttä: Fred Karlsson: Innovations and Empirical Perspectives in Linguistics (PDF file; 5.37 MB)
- Literature by and about Fred Karlsson in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ^ Membership directory: Fred Karlsson. Academia Europaea, accessed August 25, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Karlsson, Fred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish linguist and professor at Helsinki University |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Turku |