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'''Jan Terje Faarlund''' (born May 3, 1943) is a Norwegian linguist and Professor Emeritus of North Germanic languages at the [[University of Oslo]].<ref name="Uniforum">[http://www.uniforum.uio.no/nyheter/2013/02/jan-terje-faarlund-far-svensk-prestisjepris.html Jan Terje Faarlund får svensk prestisjepris. Uniforum.] {{no icon}}</ref> |
'''Jan Terje Faarlund''' (born May 3, 1943) is a Norwegian linguist and Professor Emeritus of North Germanic languages at the [[University of Oslo]].<ref name="Uniforum">[http://www.uniforum.uio.no/nyheter/2013/02/jan-terje-faarlund-far-svensk-prestisjepris.html Jan Terje Faarlund får svensk prestisjepris. Uniforum.] {{no icon}}</ref> |
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Faarlund was born in [[Østre Toten]].<ref name="NBL">[https://nbl.snl.no/Jan_Terje_Faarlund Norsk biografisk leksikon: Jan Terje Faarlund] {{no icon}}</ref> His academic career began with his [[Magister_(degree)#Denmark_and_Norway|magister's dissertation]] ''Preposisjonsuttrykkenes syntaks i moderne norsk'' (Prepositional Phrase Syntax in Modern Norwegian, 1974)<ref name="NBL"/> and he has also done substantial work on grammatical issues in Norwegian. One of his most extensive works is as a coauthor of ''Norsk referansegrammatikk'' (Norwegian Reference Grammar, 1997). |
Faarlund was born in [[Østre Toten]].<ref name="NBL">[https://nbl.snl.no/Jan_Terje_Faarlund Norsk biografisk leksikon: Jan Terje Faarlund] {{no icon}}</ref> His academic career began with his [[Magister_(degree)#Denmark_and_Norway|magister's dissertation]] ''Preposisjonsuttrykkenes syntaks i moderne norsk'' (Prepositional Phrase Syntax in Modern Norwegian, 1974)<ref name="NBL"/> and he has also done substantial work on grammatical issues in Norwegian. One of his most extensive works is as a coauthor of ''Norsk referansegrammatikk'' (Norwegian Reference Grammar, 1997). |
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Jan Terje Faarlund (born May 3, 1943) is a Norwegian linguist and Professor Emeritus of North Germanic languages at the University of Oslo.[1]
Career
Faarlund was born in Østre Toten.[2] His academic career began with his magister's dissertation Preposisjonsuttrykkenes syntaks i moderne norsk (Prepositional Phrase Syntax in Modern Norwegian, 1974)[2] and he has also done substantial work on grammatical issues in Norwegian. One of his most extensive works is as a coauthor of Norsk referansegrammatikk (Norwegian Reference Grammar, 1997).
Faarlund previously worked as a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. After two previous marriages, he was married to the social anthropologist Marianne Gullestad (1946–2008).[2][3]
Honours
He was elected as a member of the London Philological Society in 1977, as a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters in 1983 and as a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 1996.
In 2013 he was awarded the Gad Rausing Prize for Outstanding Research in the Humanities by the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.[1]
Selected works
- Syntactic Change. Towards a Theory of Historical Syntax (1990)
- (with Svein Lie and Kjell Ivar Vannebo) Norsk referansegrammatikk (Norwegian Reference Grammar, 1997)
- Grammatical Relations in Change (2001)
- The Syntax of Old Norse (2004)
- Revolusjon i lingvistikken: Noam Chomskys språkteori (Revolution in Linguistics: Noam Chomsky's Language Theory, 2005)
- "Parameterization and Change in Non-Finite Complementation" (2007)
References
External links
- Cristin: publications by Jan Terje Faarlund
- Bibsys: publications by Jan Terje Faarlund
- Jan Terje Faarlund homepage, University of Oslo
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