Alan Yates
| Alan Yates | |
|---|---|
| Born | 16 December 1944 |
| 🎓 Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| 💼 Occupation | Linguist |
Alan Yates (born 16 December 1944, Northampton, England) is an English linguist and Catalanophile.[1]
Biography[edit]
He studied philology at the University of Cambridge, where he was introduced to Catalan studies by Geoffrey J. Walker, as part of the study programme set up by Josep Maria Batista i Roca.[2]
He has been a lecturer at the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of Sheffield since 1968 where he has occupied the Balearic Islands chair for Catalan Studies since 1990. He has specialized in teaching Catalan to anglophones and has also published several studies on the modern Catalan novel and the work of Narcís Oller. He has been secretary (1971–1980) and president (1987–1990) of the Anglo-Catalan Society and in 1980 he started coordinating the Society's series Occasional Papers.[3] In 1990 he was awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi (in English Saint George's Cross) and the Knight's Cross of the Order of Civil Merit.[4][2] In 2003 he was awarded the Catalonia International Prize of the Institute of Catalan Studies in recognition of his research work as a whole.[5] Since 2006 he has been a corresponding member of the Philology Section of the Institute of Catalan Studies. On 28 March 2007 he was awarded the Ramon Llull Prize in recognition of his life-long devotion to the study and teaching of Catalan language and literature.[6]
Publications[edit]
- Teach Yourself Catalan (1975)
- Una generació sense novel·la? (1975)
- Catalan. A complete course for tourists, businessmen and students (ed. Hodder & Stoughton, 1984)
- A Catalan Handbook (with A. Ibarz, 1992)
- Aspectes de Narcís Oller Carles Rahola Essay Prize, (1997)[7]
- Narcís Oller: tradició i talent individual (1998)
- Catalan: a Comprehensive Grammar (1999), with Max W. Wheeler and Nicolau Dols.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Alan Yates". Institut Ramon Llull. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Alan Yates". Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana. Enciclopèdia Catalana. Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist.
- ↑ "Biografia - Alan Yates" (in català). Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
- ↑ "DECRET 33/1990, de 23 de gener, de concessió de les Creus de Sant Jordi de la Generalitat de Catalunya". Diari Oficial de la Generalitat de Catalunya. 23 January 1990. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
- ↑ "L'Institut d'Estudis Catalans guardona el catalanòfil anglès Alan Yates i l'historiador gironí Antoni Simon". Eixdiari (in català). El Punt. 24 April 2003. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
- ↑ "Alan Yates, premi internacional Ramon Llull d'enguany: "La literatura catalana és la que s'escriu en català"". directe!cat (in català). larepublica.cat. 6 June 2007. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
- ↑ "Patrimoni d'Editors i Editats de Catalunya - Premi Carles Rahola (1980-)" (in català). Biblioteca de Catalunya. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
External links[edit]
- "Alan Yates". Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (AELC).
- Website of the University of Sheffield
[[Category:1944 births]]
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[[Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge]]
[[Category:Linguists of Catalan]]
[[Category:People from Northampton]]
[[Category:Linguists from England]]
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