!!Bo Ralph - Curriculum Vitae
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__Studies and degrees:__
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*Bachelor of Arts, 1969, University of Gothenburg\\
*PhD in Scandinavian Languages, 1975, University of Gothenburg
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__Subjects studied:__ 
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North-Germanic languages, History of Literature with Poetics, General Linguistics, Social Anthropology, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics with Sanskrit, Czech Language.
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Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, American Indian Languages, and African Languages at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1972.
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__Evaluations:__
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*Supervisor for Ph.D. candidates, 1982–.\\
*Expert opinion reports in connection with the appointment of professors etc. in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Estonia, and Germany.\\
*Faculty opponent at  Ph.D. defenses in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland.\\
*Member of the evaluation committee for Ph.D. theses in Sweden and Finland.\\
*Adviser to the (Swedish) Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1984–99.\\
*Expert for The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 1998.
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__Project leadership (selected list):__
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*’Swedish defining vocabulary’, financed by the (Swedish) Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1975–78
*’National Edition of August Strindberg's Collected Works’, financed by the Swedish Cultural Council and the Swedish Research Council, 1982–2010 (joint leadership)
*’Lexicographic tradition in Sweden’, financed by the Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1987–94
*’The Bible Commission (translation of the Bible into Swedish)’, financed by the Swedish Parliament, 1987–2000 (joint leadership)
*’The Swedish inflectional system — between chaos and balance’, financed by the Swedish Research Council, 2000–04
*’Network for computational processing of Nordic mediaeval manuscripts’, financed by the Nordic Research Academy, 1994–99
*’The relation between vernacular and Latin authorship in the Renaissance’, financed by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation, 1996–2000
*’Travelling Swedes in the 18th century’, financed by the Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg Foundations, 2003-05
*’Icelandic–Swedish dictionary’, financed by the Governments of Sweden (Foreign Ministry) and the Iceland (Ministry of Culture), 2005- (joint leadership)
*’Swedish language history in a Nordic perspective’, financed by the Swedish Academy, 1996–2011