Adolf Noreen

Adolf Gotthard Noreen (13 March 1854, in Östra Ämtervik, Sunne Municipality – 13 June 1925, in Uppsala) was a Swedish linguist who served as a member of the Swedish Academy from 1919 until his death.

Noreen studied at Uppsala University and focused on Swedish dialectology in his earlier works, later shifting to the wider field of historical linguistics. He was a Neogrammarian and supported spelling reform.

Biography

Noreen was born in

University of Leipzig, the home of the Neogrammarian school of linguistics – a school to which Noreen belonged for his entire literary life. Whilst in Leipzig, Noreen was taught Lithuanian by August Leskien, a pioneer of research into sound laws

.

Much of Noreen's early output was focused on Swedish dialectology, primarily in his home province of Värmland and the neighbouring province of

Scandinavian languages at Uppsala University. Noreen devoted the last twenty years of his life to writing Vårt språk (Our Language), an ultimately unfinished work in which he outlines his view of the Swedish language, its grammar, phonology and morphology. Noreen was elected to Seat 12 of the Swedish Academy in 1919, following the death of Gustaf Retzius

.

Noreen was an advocate of spelling reform. He proposed consistently spelling the sj-sound, voiced palatal approximant, voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative, and /ks/ (all of which continue to have several realisations in Swedish orthography) as "sj", "j", "tj", and "ks", respectively. He also considered "Börjer Jarl" to be an acceptable alternative spelling of Birger Jarl.^[1]

Noreen is buried at

Uppsala gamla kyrkogård

.

Works

Fryksdalsmålets ljudlära (1877)[1]
Dalbymålet (1879)
Fårömålet (1879)
‘Sam. Columbus’ En svensk ordeskötsel (with G. Stjernström; 1881)
Svensk språklära (with E. Schwartz; 1881)
Dalmålen (1881–83)
Altislandische und altnorwegische Grammatik (1884)^[2]
Om språkriktighet (1888)^[1]
Utkast til föreläsningar i urgermansk ljudlära med huvudsakligt avseende på de nordiska språken (1888–90)
Geschichte der germanischen Philologie (1891)
Valda stycken af svenska författare 1526–1732 (with E. Meyer; 1893)
Altschwedisches Lesebuch (1892–94)
Spridda studier (1895)
Altschwedische Grammatik mit Einschluss des Altgutnischen (1897)^[3]
Vårt språk (1904–24)

References

^
OCLC 670487644
.

^ Altisländische und altnorwegische Grammatik at www.ling.upenn.edu
^ Altschwedische Grammatik at www.ling.upenn.edu

"Noreen". Nordisk familjebok (in Swedish) (Owl ed.). 1913. pp. 1369–1371 – via Project Runeberg.
Bandle, Oskar et al. (2002). The Nordic Languages: An International Handbook of the History of the North Germanic Languages. Berlin, Walter de Gruyter,
ISBN 3-11-014876-5
. p. 77.

External links

Works by or about Adolf Noreen at Wikisource

Cultural offices
Preceded by Gustaf Retzius	Swedish Academy, Seat No 12 1919-1925	Succeeded by Bo Bergman

[mag-1] 
OCLC 670487644
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[2] Altisländische und altnorwegische Grammatik at www.ling.upenn.edu

[3] Altschwedische Grammatik at www.ling.upenn.edu

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