Gunnstein Akselberg


Gunnstein Akselberg 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. 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 and Nordica Bergensia, and has been active in the language program Snakk med oss on the NRK Hordaland channel since 1997.

Selected publications