Gulbrand Alhaug (born July 2, 1942) is a
Norwegian onomastician
Onomastics (or, in older texts, onomatology) is the study of the etymology, history, and use of proper names. An ''orthonym'' is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onomastic study.
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and linguistics professor emeritus at the
University of Tromsø
The University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway (Norwegian: ''Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet''; Northern Sami: ''Romssa universitehta – Norgga árktalaš universitehta'') is a state university in Norway an ...
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Alhaug studied at the
University of Bergen. He has studied personal names in particular, and published the volume ''Norsk fornavnleksikon'' (Dictionary of Norwegian Given Names, 2011). In addition to Norwegian names, his onomastic studies have also included the
Pomaks of Bulgaria.
[Konstantinov, Yulian, Gulbrand Alhaug, & Birgit Igla. 1991. "Names of the Bulgarian Pomaks. ''Tromso University Working Papers on Language and Linguistics'' 17: 8–117.]
Selected bibliography
* ''En datamaskinell undersøkelse av suffiksvekslingen -ing/-ning i moderne norsk'' (A Computational Study of the Suffix Alternation ''-ing/-ning'' in Modern Norwegian; 1973)
* ''Heiderskrift til Nils Hallan på 65-årsdagen 13. desember 1991'' (A Festschrift for Nisl Hallan on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday, December 13, 1991; 1991)
* ''Nordisk namnforskning 1997'' (Nordic Onomastics 1997; 1998)
* ''10 001 navn : norsk fornavnleksikon'' (10,001 Names: Dictionary of Norwegian Given Names; 2001)
* ''Venneskrift til Gulbrand Alhaug'' (Papers in Honor of Gulbrand Alhaug; 2002)
* ''Fornamn i Noreg frå 1900 til 1975: med vekt på endringar i namnemønsteret'' (Given Names in Norway, 1900–1975: With an Emphasis on Changes in Name Patterns; 2004)
* ''Mot rikare mål å trå: festskrift til Tove Bull'' (Aspiring to Higher Things. A Festschrift for Tove Bull; 2005)
* ''Norsk fornavnleksikon'' (Dictionary of Norwegian Given Names; 2011)
References
External links
BIBSYS: Publications by Gulbrand AlhaugUniversity of Tromsø faculty homepage: Gulbrand Alhaug
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1942 births
Living people
Linguists from Norway
University of Bergen alumni
Academic staff of the University of Tromsø