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 Municipality.Gunnstein Akselberg. 2013. Allkunne 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 Voss Municipality, titled Fenomenologisk dekonstruksjon av det labov-milroyske paradigmet i sosiolingvistikken. Ein analyse av sosio-lingvistiske tilhøve i Voss kommune (Phenomenological Deconstruction of the Labov-Milroy Paradigm in Sociolinguistics: An Analysis of Sociolinguistic Conditions in the Municipality of Voss).Akselberg, Gunnstein. 1995. Fenomenologisk dekonstruksjon av det labov-milroyske paradigmet i sosiolingvistikken. Ein analyse av sosio-lingvistiske tilhøve i Voss kommune. Doctoral dissertation, University of Bergen. https://nva.sikt.no/registration/0198cc8bd76f-15c0a46e-6e13-4c10-9479-27a2ffff76a7Verma, Mahendra K. 1998. Sociolinguistics, Language, and Society. London: Sage, p. 201.Akselberg, Gunnstein. 2005. Dialects and Regional Linguistic Varieties in the 20th Century II: Norway. In Oskar Bandle et al. (eds.), The Nordic Languages 2: An International Handbook of the History of the North Germanic Languages, pp. 1707–1721. Berlin: de Gruyter, p. 1719. He served as dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Bergen from 2005 to 2009.EBHA 12th Annual Conference: Greeting from the Dean.
Akselberg's research interests include sociolinguistics, dialectology, and onomastics. In addition to Norwegian, he also works on Faroese.Akselberg, Gunnstein. 2001. Færøysk språk i sosiolingvistisk perspektiv, In Kurt Braunmuller & Jógvan í Lon Jacobsen (eds.), Moderne lingvistiske teorier og færøsk, pp. 155–179. Oslo: Novus. 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.
Selected publications Veg- og gatenamnleksikon for Vossabygdi (Voss District Road and Street Name Lexicon; Voss: Hangur forlag, 1984) Ord og uttrykk frå Hordaland (Words and Phrases from Hordaland; Oslo: Samlaget, 2008) Frå Bontelabo til Ånuglo. Stadnamn i Hordaland (From Bontelabo to Ånuglo: Town Names in Hordaland; Oslo: Samlaget, 2012)BIBSYS: Publications by Gunnstein Akselberg
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