Sverker Johansson

Swedish physicist and Wikipedian
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Sverker Johansson
NationalitySwedish
Alma materUniversity of Lund
University of Gothenburg
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, linguistics

Sverker Johansson is a Swedish physicist, linguist, textbook author and university professor. He created Lsjbot, a Wikipedia bot.

Biography

Johansson's book Origins of Language, Constraints of Hypotheses, and Convergence Evidence in Language and Communication Studies, published in 2005, has been reviewed by the Journal of Linguistics.[1][2][3]

In 2012, he presented the theory that Neanderthals used language in "Essay on Neanderthal Language".[4]

Footnotes

  1. ^ "ICLA Review of Sverker Johansson (2005), Origins of Language". 2014-10-13. Archived from the original on 2014-10-13. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  2. ^ "Hypothetically Speaking ยป American Scientist". 2014-10-13. Archived from the original on 2014-10-13. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  3. ^ Becker, Claudia A. (2006). "Review of Origins of Language: Constraints on Hypotheses". Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. 60 (1): 147โ€“149. doi:10.2307/4143902. ISSN 0361-1299. JSTOR 4143902.
  4. ^ Johansson, Sverker (2012). "The case for Neanderthal language - How strong is it?". World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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