Fredrik Otto Lindeman is a Norwegian linguist. He is professor emeritus in historical linguistics

Historical linguistics

Historical linguistics is the study of language change. It has five main concerns:* to describe and account for observed changes in particular languages...

 at University of Oslo

University of Oslo

The University of Oslo , formerly The Royal Frederick University , is the oldest and largest university in Norway, situated in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The university was founded in 1811 and was modelled after the recently established University of Berlin...

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Lindeman works mainly with Indo-European

Indo-European

Indo-European may refer to:* Indo-European languages** Aryan race, a 19th century and early 20th century term for those peoples who are the native speakers of Indo-European languages...

 languages. He has given his name to Lindeman's law, a linguistic law which concerns Sievers’ law.

Together with Harald Bjorvand

Harald Bjorvand

Harald Bjorvand is a Norwegian linguist.He was born in Askim, and graduated from the University of Oslo in 1970. He was a research fellow at the same institution from 1972 to 1974, amanuensis from 1974 to 1987, associate professor from 1987 and professor from 1990. He took the dr.philos. degree in...

, in 2000 he published 1100 pages of Våre arveord, the first etymological dictionary

Etymological dictionary

An etymological dictionary discusses the etymology of the words listed. Often, large dictionaries, such as the OED and Webster's, will contain some etymological information, without aspiring to focus on etymology....

 for Norwegian since Hjalmar Falk and Alf Torp

Alf Torp

Alf Torp was a Norwegian philologist and author. He is most known for his work with Indo-European and Nordic language history and meaning of ancient languages.-Biography:...

's Etymologisk ordbog over det danske og det norske sprog (1903–06). The book was re-released in a new version in 2007. Lindeman has translated Sagaen om Cú Chulainns sykeleie og Emers skinnsyke from Old Irish and Vardan og armenernes krig from Old Armenian for Thorleif Dahls kulturbibliotek.

He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway.-History:The University of Oslo was established in 1811. The idea of a learned society in Christiania surfaced for the first time in 1841. The city of Throndhjem had no university, but had a learned...

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Works

• Les origines Indo-Européennes de la "Verschärfung" Germanique (1964)
• Einführung in die Laryngaltheorie (1970)
• The triple representation of schwa in Greek and some related problems of Indo-European phonology (1982)
• Våre arveord (2000)

Translations

• Sagaen om Cú Chulainns sykeleie og Emers skinnsyke (1985)
• Vardan og armenernes krig (1992)