Jan Svartvik Explained

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

• 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

• August Prize in Literature (1999)^[4]

See also

• A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language
• Survey of English Usage

External links

• The Survey of English Usage website
• www.muni.cz
• Personal homepage

Notes and References

1. Sveriges befolkning 1990, CD-ROM, Version 1.00, Riksarkivet (2011)
2. http://www.kva.se/KVA_Root/swe/contact/contactdetail.asp?PersonID=316 Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien: Jan Svartvik
3. Web site: Paradis . Carita . LINGUIST List 35.1995 All: In Memoriam: Jan Svartvik . linguistlist.org . 9 July 2024 . en.
4. Web site: augustpriset.se . 30 September 2022 . 26 September 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170926042337/http://www.augustpriset.se/bidrag/engelska-osprak-varldssprak-trendsprak . dead .