Nils-Lennart Johannesson

Nils-Lennart Johannesson, born 16th of February 1948, died 8th of June 2019, was a Swedish linguist. He studied at Stockholm University and Yale University. Johannesson graduated from Stockholm University in 1976 with a dissertation titled The English Modal Auxiliaries: A Stratificational Account and become chair professor of English in the same department in 2000. Before this, he was professor in English linguistics at the University of Trondheim between 1991 and 1999. He translated two of the poet George Mackay Brown's books to Swedish, A Calendar of Love and Greenvoe.

Between 1993 and 2019, Johannesson pursued The Ormulum Project, an editorial project of enormous scope, which lead to the only modern critical and digital edition of The Ormulum.