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'''Jan Terje Faarlund''' (born May 3, 1943) is a professor 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 professor 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 this |
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 this [[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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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).<ref name="NBL"/><ref>[https://nbl.snl.no/Marianne_Gullestad Norsk biografisk leksikon: Marianne Gullestad] {{no icon}}</ref> |
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).<ref name="NBL"/><ref>[https://nbl.snl.no/Marianne_Gullestad Norsk biografisk leksikon: Marianne Gullestad] {{no icon}}</ref> |
Revision as of 10:43, 3 July 2015
Jan Terje Faarlund (born May 3, 1943) is a professor of North Germanic languages at the University of Oslo.[1]
Faarlund was born in Østre Toten.[2] His academic career began with this 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]
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)