Jan Svartvik
Jan Svartvik | |
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| Born | 18 August 1931 |
| Died | 18 June 2024 (aged 92) |
| Relatives | Jesper Svartvik (son) |
| Awards | August Prize (Literature, 1999) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Lund University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguistics |
| Main interests | English language, Corpus linguistics |
Jan Lars Svartvik (18 August 1931 – 18 June 2024) was a Swedish linguist and professor of English at Lund University (1970–1995). He was the author of several grammar books on English that are widely used in teaching English in Sweden. One of his research areas was also corpus linguistics.
He was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and of the Royal Physiographic Society in the city of Lund.[2]
Jan Svartvik died on 18 June 2024, at the age of 92.[3] His son Jesper Svartvik (born 1965), is a theologian.
Bibliography
[edit]- English Pocket Grammar (1974)
- English University Grammar (1978)
- A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (with Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, and Geoffrey Leech) (1985)
- English Words on Board (1994)
- English - Island language, World Language, Trending Language (1999)
Awards
[edit]- August Prize in Literature (1999)[4]
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Sveriges befolkning 1990, CD-ROM, Version 1.00, Riksarkivet (2011)
- ^ Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien: Jan Svartvik Archived 26 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine (26 April 2009)
- ^ Paradis, Carita. "LINGUIST List 35.1995 All: In Memoriam: Jan Svartvik". linguistlist.org. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "augustpriset.se". Archived from the original on 26 September 2017. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
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