Dr Tom Lundskær-Nielsen

Senior Lecturer in Danish

Senior Lecturer in Danish since 2001; Acting Head of Department Oct. 2000 – Dec. 2001, and HoD Jan. 2002 – Dec. 2005. In addition to his Ph.D. from Odense University, he has a ‘cand.mag.’ degree (English/German) from Copenhagen University, and an M.Phil. degree (linguistics) from Cambridge University. He has previously taught at a Danish ‘gymnasium’, Copenhagen University, the Royal College of Education in Copenhagen, and Cambridge University, before moving to UCL in 1991. He held a Visiting Fellowship at Clare Hall, Cambridge, in 1988-90, and has since been a life member of Clare Hall. In 1991 he was awarded the gold medal from Copenhagen Business School for a thesis on historical linguistics.

He has been a consultant on various projects involving Danish, including for the OED, and is editor of the Section on Danish Language in The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies. From 1994-2001 he was examiner of Danish B for the International Baccalaureate, and from 1995-2000 also Chief Examiner for Germanic/Slavonic languages. In April 2005 he was ‘Visiting Professor’ at the Scandinavian Department, University of Vienna.

Research interests:

Danish language and literature, historical linguistics, history of linguistics.

Major publications:

Prepositions in Old and Middle English (Odense University Press, 1993).

Danish. A Comprehensive Grammar (with R. Allan and P. Holmes) (Routledge, 1995/1998/2002).

Danish. An Essential Grammar (with R. Allan and P. Holmes) (Routledge, 2000/2004).

Some Views of Prepositions in 17th and 18th Century England (Dept. of English, Odense University, 2000).

An Introduction to Scandinavian Phonetics (with Michael Barnes and Annika Lindskog) (Copenhagen: Alfabeta, 2005).

In addition, he has written a number of articles and encyclopedia contributions on Danish language and literature, and on linguistics, and given a range of papers and talks on these subjects.