Jan Svartvik

Jan Svartvik
Born(1931-08-18)18 August 1931
Fryksände, Torsby Municipality, Värmlands län, Sweden
Died18 June 2024(2024-06-18) (aged 92)
Known forForensic linguistics
AwardsAugust Prize (Literature, 1999)
Academic background
EducationUppsala University
ThesisOn voice in the English verb (1966)
Academic work
InstitutionsLund University
Main interestsEnglish language, Corpus linguistics

Jan Lars Svartvik (18 August 1931 – 18 June 2024) was a Swedish linguist and professor in English. Svartvik's work started an entirely new discipline, forensic linguistics. He was the author of several grammar books on English that were widely used in teaching English in Sweden during his lifetime. One of his research areas was also corpus linguistics.

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