Fred Karlsson#
| Membership Number: | 382 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://tuhat.halvi.helsinki.fi/portal/en/persons/fred-karlsson%2846538b89-d446-4bd7-9512-f1ab7154cdfa%29.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1980-present Professor of general linguistics, University of Helsinki
- 1974 Doctor of Philosophy (phonetics), University of Turku, 1974
Fields of Scholarship
- Syntactic theory
- Syntax
- Morphology
- Phonology
- History of linguistics,
- Language complexity
- Computational linguistics
- Corpus linguistics
Honours and Awards
- President of the Nordic Association of Linguists (1984-1986)
- Member of Academia Europaea (1988)
- The Finnish Society of Information Technology Prize for an Outstanding Achievement in Information Technology(1988)
- Member of the Board of Societas Linguistica Europaea (1987-1989)
- Societas Scientiarum Fennica: E. J. Nyström’s Prize for outstanding work in computational linguistics (1996)
