David Håkansson

David Stefan Håkansson (born 26 November 1978) is a Swedish linguist and professor of Swedish languages at Uppsala University. In this study, he addresses the evolution of a Swedish subject requirement, as well as more general inquiries about the causes and processes of language change. He is currently a board member of the Swedish Society for Belles-Lettres and a member of the Royal Society of the Humanities at Uppsala. Additionally, he is the editor of the journal Språk och stil and the project director for How Fiction Made Swedish Modern: Fictional Writing, Writers, and Linguistic Development 1830-1930. Both linguists and literary scholars are involved in this effort, which aims to emphasize the part that fiction plays in language evolution.