Ingeborg Hoff (November 15, 1911 – April 8, 1993) was a Norwegian linguist. In 1948, she was awarded the
Doctor of Philosophy
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degree and hired as a Senior
Archivist
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at the
Norwegian Dialect Archive at the
University of Oslo
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. She was promoted to the position of
Docent
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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
Festschrift
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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
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1911 births
1993 deaths
Linguists from Norway
University of Oslo alumni
20th-century linguists
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