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Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. Lars Johanson

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Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Lars Johanson, born and educated in Sweden, is professor of Turcology at the University of Mainz, Germany. He has published widely on descriptive and historical linguistics, especially in the domains of aspect-mood-tense and language contact, mostly focusing on the Turkic language family. He edits the journal “Turkic Languages” and the monograph series “Turcologica”.

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University of Mainz

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Prof. Dr. Éva Á. Csató

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Éva Á. Csató is professor in Turkic languages at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University. Her research interests include Turkic lingusitics, syntactic typology, contact linguistics, documentation and revitalization of the endagered Karaim language, and the study of the Turkic minority language Kashkay in Iran. She has published over a hundred articles and edited several volumes, for example, with Lars Johanson “The Turkic Languages” (Routledge 1998, 2006). She is in the editorial board of the journals “Turkic Languages” and “Orientalia Suecana”.

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Uppsala University

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Prof. Dr. Michael Schulte

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Michael Schulte is professor and chair of Nordic linguistics at the University of Agder in Norway. He holds a ph.d in historical linguistics from the University of Bonn and has studied in all the Nordic countries, particularly in Iceland, Norway and Sweden. In 2014 Schulte received the Fridtjof Nansen's Award for excellent research for his work on Old Germanic and Early Nordic linguistics. Schulte has published abundantly in high-profile journals on runology, language history, historical sociolinguistics and writing systems. At present he is working on the national language project "Norsk språkhistorie" (Norwegian language history), to appear in Oslo in 2015 in four volumes. Schulte is a member of several academies such as The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (DKNVS) and Royal Gustav Adolf Academy in Sweden (KGAA).

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University of Agder

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Prof. Dr. Nurettin Demir

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Hacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Çağdaş Türk Lehçeleri ve Edebiyatları Bölümü Öğretim üyesi. Selçuk Üniversitesinde Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümünü bitirdi. Milliği Eğitim Bakanlığı Doktora Bursuyla Mainz Üniversitesinde Türkoloji alanında doktora yaptı. 1999 yılında Doçent, 2006 yılında da Profesör oldu. Sırasıyla Szeged Üniversitesi, Leipzig Üniversitesi, Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi ve Başkent Üniversitesinde çalıştı. Uppsala Üniversitesi ve Çin Milleteler Üniversitesinde misafir öğretim üyesi olarak bulundu.

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Hacettepe Üniversitesi