35.1995, All: In Memoriam: Jan Svartvik

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Date: 07-Jul-2024
From: Carita Paradis [carita.paradis at englund.lu.se]
Subject: In Memoriam: Jan Svartvik


It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Emeritus
Professor Jan Svartvik, Lund University, Sweden.

Jan was born on 18 August 1931 in the county of Värmland in Sweden and
died in Lund on 18 June 2024. He studied at Uppsala and University
College London (UCL) and became Professor of English Language at Lund
University in 1970, a chair he held for 25 years till his retirement.

Jan is well-known for his early and innovative development of
machine-readable corpora in collaboration with the Survey of English
Usage at UCL, in particular the world’s first spoken corpus,
London–Lund Corpus of spoken British English, launched in the
mid-1970s.

He wrote many books and articles, both single-authored publications
and publications in collaboration with colleagues. Best-known of them
all is perhaps the impressive Comprehensive Grammar of the English
Language (1985), which he co-authored with Randolph Quirk, Sidney
Greenbaum and Geoffrey Leech. This grammar book is still one of the
standard reference grammars of English. He was also known for working
with Geoffrey Leech on A Communicative Grammar of English (third
edition, 2002), English: One Tongue, Many Voices (2006).

Jan played a leading role in the foundation of ICAME, the
International Computer Archive of Medieval and Modern English, which
he co-founded in 1977. ICAME grew into an important international
organisation with a focus on the computational analysis of the English
language. It has an annual conference which attracts scholars from all
over the world. https://icame.info/history-the-beginnings/,

Jan’s autobiography is here
 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/about/svartvik.htm

Carita Paradis
Bas Aarts

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics




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