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 Linguists from Norway University of Oslo alumni 20th-century linguists {{Norway-linguist-stub