László Károly

Professor in Turkic Languages at Department of Linguistics and Philology

Telephone:
+46 18 471 10 89
E-mail:
Laszlo.Karoly@lingfil.uu.se
Visiting address:
Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H
Postal address:
Box 635
751 26 UPPSALA
CV:
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ORCID:
0000-0001-7723-1171

Short presentation

I have been Chair and Professor of Turkic Languages at Uppsala University since 2016. My academic background is in Altaic languages, historical-comparative linguistics and philology. My current research focuses on the phonetics and phonology of Turkic, the Turkic runiform inscriptions of Eurasia, the Middle Turkic languages, Siberian Turkic, word-formation and the history of medicine.

Keywords

  • turkic
  • yakut
  • runiform
  • morphology
  • altaic languages
  • historical-comparative linguistics
  • history of medicine
  • word-formation
  • philology
  • middle turkic
  • database technologies
  • chagatai
  • siberian turkic

Biography

2016- Chair and professor, Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology

2011-2016 Associate professor (Juniorprofessor), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Department of Oriental Studies

2009-2011 Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral research, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Department of Oriental Studies

2009-2011 Assistant professor, University of Szeged, Department of Altaic Studies

2008 PhD in Altaic Studies (Linguistics), University of Szeged, Department of Altaic Studies

2005-2009 Teaching assistant, University of Szeged, Department of Altaic Studies

2002 MA in Turkic (Altaic) Studies, University of Szeged, Department of Altaic Studies

Research

Understanding the trajectory and distributional typology of phonological change

(Re)constructing a Bible - A new approach to unedited Biblical manuscripts as sources for the early history of the Karaim language, A Database of Middle Turkic

Runiform inscriptions - A Database of Turkic Runiform Inscriptions

László Károly

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