Fredrik Otto Lindeman (born 3 March 1936) is a Norwegian

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

. He is

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historical linguistics Historical linguistics, also termed diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of language change over time. Principal concerns of historical linguistics include: # to describe and account for observed changes in particular languages # ...

University of Oslo The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...

. Lindeman works mainly with

Indo-European languages The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages of this family, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutc ...

. He has given his name to Lindeman's law, an

Indo-European The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages of this family, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch ...

sound law A sound change, in historical linguistics, is a change in the pronunciation of a language. A sound change can involve the replacement of one speech sound (or, more generally, one phonetic feature value) by a different one (called phonetic chang ...

concerning Sievers’ law. Together with

Harald Bjorvand Harald Bjorvand (born 30 July 1942) is a Norwegian linguist. He was born in Askim, and graduated from the University of Oslo in 1970. He was a research fellow at the same institution from 1972 to 1974, ''amanuensis'' from 1974 to 1987, associate p ...

, in 2000 he published 1100 pages of ''Våre arveord'', the first

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for Norwegian since

Hjalmar Falk Peterolsen Groth Hjalmar Seierstedt Falk (April 2, 1859 – November 2, 1928) was a Norwegian linguist and philologist. Early life and education Falk was born in Vang. He started his university studies in 1876 and graduated with an education ...

and

Alf Torp Alf Torp (September 27, 1853 – September 26, 1916) was a Norway, Norwegian philology, philologist and author. He is most known for his work with Indo-European languages, Indo-European and Old Norse, Nordic language history and meaning of ancie ...

's ''Etymologisk ordbog over det danske og det norske sprog'' (1903–06). The book was re-released in a new version in 2007. Lindeman has translated ''Sagaen om Cú Chulainns sykeleie og Emers skinnsyke'' from

Old Irish Old Irish, also called Old Gaelic ( sga, Goídelc, Ogham script: ᚌᚑᚔᚇᚓᚂᚉ; ga, Sean-Ghaeilge; gd, Seann-Ghàidhlig; gv, Shenn Yernish or ), is the oldest form of the Goidelic/Gaelic language for which there are extensive writt ...

and ''Vardan og armenernes krig'' from

Old Armenian Classical Armenian (, in Eastern Armenian pronunciation: Grabar, Western Armenian: Krapar; meaning "literary anguage; also Old Armenian or Liturgical Armenian) is the oldest attested form of the Armenian language. It was first written down at ...

for Thorleif Dahls kulturbibliotek. He is a member of the

Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters ( no, Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, DNVA) is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway. Its purpose is to support the advancement of science and scholarship in Norway. History The Royal Frederick Univer ...

Works

* ''Les Origines indo-européennes de la "Verschärfung" germanique'' (1964) * ''Einführung in die Laryngaltheorie'' (1970) ** English version and revision: ''Introduction to the “Laryngeal Theory”''. Oslo: Norwegian University Press and Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture; Oxford University Press, 1987 (reprint: Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität, 1997) * ''The triple representation of schwa in Greek and some related problems of Indo-European phonology'' (1982) * ''Våre arveord'' (2000)

Translations

* ''Sagaen om Cú Chulainns sykeleie og Emers skinnsyke'' (1985) * ''Vardan og armenernes krig'' (1992)

References

1936 births Living people Academic staff of the University of Oslo Linguists from Norway Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters {{Norway-academic-bio-stub