Gunnstein Akselberg
Gunnstein Akselberg (born July 20, 1949) is a Norwegian linguist and professor of Nordic linguistics at the University of Bergen. Akselberg was born in Voss. He studied at the University of Bergen and became a ''candidatus philologiæ'' in 1979. He received his doctorate in 1995 with a dissertation on sociolinguistic relations in the Municipality of Voss, titled ''Fenomenologisk de- konstruksjon av del labov-milroyske paradigmet i sosiolingvistikken: Ein analyse av sosiolingvistiske tilhove i Voss kommune'' (Phenomenological Deconstruction of the Labov-Milroy Paradigm in Sociolinguistics: An Analysis of Sociolinguistic Conditions in the Municipality of Voss). He served as dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Bergen from 2005 to 2009.
Akselberg's research interests include sociolinguistics, dialectology, and onomastics. In addition to Norwegian, he also works on Faroese. He served as an editor of the journals ''Namn og Nemne'' (Name and Denomination) and ''Nordica Bergensia'' (Bergen Nordic Studies), and has been active in the language program ''Snakk med oss'' (Talk with Us) on the NRK Hordaland channel since 1997. Provided by Wikipedia
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Sprog- og kulturkontakt i Vestnorden om det færøske, grønlandske, islandske og norske sprogs møde med dansk
Published 2023Other Authors: “…Akselberg, Gunnstein 1949-…”
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Scandinavian names and naming in the medieval North-Atlantic area proceedings of the 44th symposium of NORNA in Caen, 23-25 April 2014
Published 2017Other Authors: “…Akselberg, Gunnstein 1949-…”
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