Tomas Riad
Riad in 2019
Born	Tomas Staffan Riad (1959-11-15)15 November 1959 (age 65) Uppsala, Sweden
Education	Stockholm University
Occupation(s)	Linguist, musician, writer
Employer(s)	Stockholm University University of Gothenburg
Member of the Swedish Academy (Seat No. 6)
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 December 2011
Preceded by	Birgitta Trotzig

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

• Squibs, remarks and replies (1988);co-authors:Elly van Gelderen &,Arild Hestvik
• Reflexivity and predication (1988)
• Structures in Germanic Prosody. A diachronic study with special reference to the Nordic languages (1992)
• Birgitta Trotzig – Svenska Akademien Inträdestal (2011)
• The Phonology of Swedish (2014)

• Tones and Tunes: Typological Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody (2007)
• Tones and Tunes: Experimental Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody (2007)
• Typological Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody (2007)
• Studier i svensk språkhistoria. 12, Variation och förändring (2014)

• Peter Englund, "Ny ledamot, entry of 30 September 2011 in Englund's official blog as permanent secretary of the Academy
• Calle Sandstedt, "Ny ledamot i Svenska Akademien", Svenska Dagbladet, 30 September 2011.

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