Jan Lars Svartvik (born 18 August 1931) is a Swedish linguist and former professor of English at Lund University (1970–1995). He is the author of several grammar books on English that are widely used in teaching English in Sweden. One of his research areas is also corpus linguistics.
He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and of the Royal Physiographic Society in the city of Lund.
Jesper Svartvik (born 1965), theologian, is his son.
Bibliography
English Pocket Grammar (1974) English University Grammar (1978) A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (with Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, and Geoffrey Leech) (1985) English Words on Board (1994) English - Island language, World Language, Trending Language (1999)
Prizes and awards
August Prize in Literature (1999)