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        Date: 2024-07-07 17:48:57+00:00
        From: Marinella Testori <testorimarinella@gmail.com>
        Subject: Jan Svartvik in memoriam

[Da: Carita Paradis via Corpora <corpora@list.elra.info>]


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/
<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


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Professor Carita Paradis, PhD, MAE
Centre for Languages and Literature
Lund University
Box 201,
SE-221 00 Lund
Website:http://www.sol.lu.se/en/person/CaritaParadis



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