Tomas Riad Explained

Tomas Riad
Birth Name:Tomas Staffan Riad
Birth Date:15 November 1959
Birth Place:Uppsala, Sweden
Education:Stockholm University
Employer:Stockholm University
University of Gothenburg
Occupation:Linguist, musician, writer
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Office:Member of the Swedish Academy
(Seat No. 6)
Termstart:20 December 2011
Predecessor:Birgitta Trotzig

Tomas Staffan Riad (born 15 November 1959) is a Swedish linguist, specialised in Swedish phonology and prosody. He received his Ph.D. from Stockholm University in 1992[1] and is professor at the Department of Scandinavian languages there.[2] Riad is also a violinist, trained at the Royal College of Music in London and has worked as a full-time musician.[3] He was elected a member of the Swedish Academy on 29 September 2011 (taking his seat on 20 December).[4]

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  1. Dissertation, full text available: Structures in Germanic Prosody. A diachronic study with special reference to the Nordic languages, Stockholm University, 1992.
  2. Sandstedt
  3. Englund
  4. Sandstedt; the exact date of the election is clear from Englund's blog