Arne Torp (born 14 October 1942 in Holt, East Agder, Norway) is a Norwegian professor of

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in the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies at the

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. Torp has published widely, both for the higher education sector and for high school. Arne Torp was for years a member of the

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and has participated in several radio and television programs in discussion of Nordic linguistics and the

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in particular. Arne Torp is the father of actress

Ane Dahl Torp Ane Dahl Torp (born 1 August 1975 in Bærum, Norway) is a Norwegian actress. Career Torp had her first film appearance in ''The Woman of My Life'' (2003). She has received Amanda Awards for her performances as Trude Eriksen in ''Svarte penger ...

. He resides at

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. In 2008, Arne Torp participated in a series of radio commercials for the grocery chain Joker, where he used his knowledge of Norwegian dialects to discern the geographic origin of speakers. Arne Torp was the leader of the 'Landslaget for språklig samling' (Norwegian: National Association for a Common Language) from 1989 to 1993. From 1993 to 2003, he was editor of the magazine-language collection.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Torp, Arne Linguists from Norway Living people 1942 births University of Oslo faculty