Jan Terje Faarlund
| Professor Jan Terje Faarlund | |
|---|---|
| Born |
3 May 1943 Østre Toten |
| Fields | North Germanic languages |
| Institutions |
Norwegian University of Science and Technology University of Oslo |
Jan Terje Faarlund (born 3 May 1943) is a Norwegian linguist and professor emeritus of North Germanic languages at the University of Oslo.[1][2]
Career
Faarlund was born in Østre Toten. His academic career began with his magister dissertation Preposisjonsuttrykkenes syntaks i moderne norsk (Prepositional Phrase Syntax in Modern Norwegian, 1974)[1] 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).[1]
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).[1][3]
Memberships and honours
He was elected 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. He has also been a member of the London Philological Society since 1977.[1]
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.[2]
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)
- English: The Language of the Vikings (with Joseph Embley Emonds), Olomouc Modern Language Monographs (2014)
References
External links
- List of publications by Jan Terje Faarlund in CRIStin
- Bibsys: publications by Jan Terje Faarlund
- Jan Terje Faarlund homepage, University of Oslo