Henrik Liljegren () is a
linguist
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and Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at
Stockholm University
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. He does fieldwork on languages of
northern Pakistan
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, particularly the
Hindukush
The Hindu Kush is an mountain range in Central and South Asia to the west of the Himalayas. It stretches from central and western Afghanistan, Quote: "The Hindu Kush mountains run along the Afghan border with the North-West Frontier Provinc ...
–
Karakoram
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region, and studies
typology
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of and genetic relations between languages of the region. His most recent project is investigating ''Language contact and relatedness in the Hindukush region'', funded by the
Vetenskapsrådet
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(Swedish Research Council).
Liljegren earned his Ph.D. for his thesis ''Towards a grammatical description of Palula: An Indo-Aryan language of the Hindu Kush'' in 2008, advised by
Östen Dahl
Östen Dahl (; born 4 November 1945 in Stockholm) is a Swedish linguist and professor best known for pioneering a marker-based approach to tense and aspect in linguistic typology. Dahl finished his PhD at the University of Gothenburg and subsequen ...
at the University of Stockholm. He has published a grammar of
Palula (based on his dissertation), and worked on other languages of the Hindukush, including
Khowar
Khowar () or Chitrali, is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken in Chitral and surrounding areas in Pakistan.
Khowar is the lingua franca of Chitral, and it is also spoken in the Gupis-Yasin and Ghizer districts of Gilgit-Baltistan, as ...
,
Kalasha
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,
Shina
Shina may refer to:
* Shina language, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
* Shina people, a Dardic ethnic group in Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan
People named Shina
* Shina Matsudo (born 1973), Japanese freestyle swimmer
* ...
, and
Kalkoti
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, among others.
Anton I. Kogan
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, a linguist of
Kashmiri Kashmiri may refer to:
* People or things related to the Kashmir Valley or the broader region of Kashmir
* Kashmiris, an ethnic group native to the Kashmir Valley
* Kashmiri language, their language
People with the name
* Kashmiri Saikia Baruah ...
and
Dardic languages
The Dardic languages (also Dardu or Pisaca) or Hindu-Kush Indo-Aryan languages, are a group of several Indo-Aryan languages spoken in northern Pakistan, northwestern India and parts of northeastern Afghanistan.
The term "Dardic" is stated to b ...
, in his review on Liljegren's grammar of Palula, stated: "Thanks to the author’s painstaking work, Palula can now be considered one of the best studied Dardic languages. It would not be an exaggeration to say that there is hardly any significant aspect of Palula phonology, morphology or syntax left unnoticed in the grammar under review."
References
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Atlantic Council
Linguists from Sweden
Linguists of Indo-Aryan languages
Linguists of Iranian languages
Academic staff of Stockholm University
Stockholm University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people