Gunnstein Akselberg (born July 20, 1949) is a Norwegian linguist and professor of Nordic linguistics at the

University of Bergen The University of Bergen () is a public university, public research university in Bergen, Norway. As of 2021, the university had over 4,000 employees and 19,000 students. It was established by an act of parliament in 1946 consolidating several sci ...

. Akselberg was born in

Voss Voss () is a Municipalities of Norway, municipality and a Districts of Norway, traditional district in Vestland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Vossevangen. Other villages inclu ...

.Gunnstein Akselberg. 2013. Allkunne
/ref> He studied at the University of Bergen and became a ''

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'' 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

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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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References

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