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Jan Terje Faarlund

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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)

References

  1. ^ a b Jan Terje Faarlund får svensk prestisjepris. Uniforum. Template:No icon
  2. ^ a b c Norsk biografisk leksikon: Jan Terje Faarlund Template:No icon
  3. ^ Norsk biografisk leksikon: Marianne Gullestad Template:No icon

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