TY - JOUR AU - Gundersen, Kjetil AU - Worren, Dagfinn PY - 2016/01/22 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Ivar Aasen og Universitetet i Oslo JF - Nordiske Studier i Leksikografi JA - NSL VL - 0 IS - 12 SE - Artikler DO - UR - https://tidsskrift.dk/nsil/article/view/23044 SP - AB - <p>With his grammar of 1848, Det norske Folkesprogs Grammatik,<br />and his dictionary of 1850, Ordbog over det norske<br />Folkesprog, Ivar Aasen (1813–1896) provided the first systematic<br />account of Norwegian dialects and initiated the era of<br />modern Norwegian lexicography. These publications constituted<br />the scientific basis for a national written language for<br />Norway. Aasen had no formal academic education, but Det<br />Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab in Trondheim provided<br />Aasen with the funding he needed to collect linguistic<br />material from the dialects. In the final stages of the work on<br />the grammar and the dictionary, Aasen sought advice from<br />leading academics at the University of Oslo to ensure that his<br />account of the language was scientifically sound and up to<br />date. The article features the collaboration between Aasen and<br />the university academics in this period, and particular attention<br />is given to a disagreement that Aasen and the academics had<br />regarding how the closed and open vowels should be handled<br />in the written code. The article also addresses how the same<br />environment of academics who had been important for Aasen’s<br />breakthrough as a linguist and lexicographer turned against his<br />project when it was no longer just a theoretical linguistic<br />project, but a practical project to establish a dialect-based<br />written Norwegian language as an alternative to Danish.<br />Finally the focus is on how the University of Oslo in the years<br />after Aasen has taken care of and developed the constitutionally<br />grounded project to implement a national language.</p> ER -