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Ingeborg Hoff (November 15, 1911 – April 8, 1993) was a Norwegian linguist. In 1948, she was awarded the
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degree and hired as a Senior
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at the Norwegian Dialect Archive at the
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. She was promoted to the position of
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from 1970 and made Head of the Norwegian Dialect Archive in 1972, positions she held until her retirement in 1981. A
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in her honor was written on the occasion of her retirement.


Bibliography

* Hoff, Ingeborg
''Skjetvemålet: utsyn over lydvoksteren i målet i Skiptvet i Østfold i jamføring med andre østfoldske mål''
Jacob Dybwad, Oslo. 1946.


References

* 1911 births 1993 deaths University of Oslo alumni 20th-century Norwegian linguists {{Norway-linguist-stub