Dag Haug
Dag Trygve Truslew Haug is a Norwegian linguist and professor of linguistics and classics at the University of Oslo.
Career
Dag Haug attended a French high school before he began studying at the University of Oslo, and he received his master's degree in 1996. He majored in Greek in 1998 and was then a research fellow. In 2001 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the language of the Iliad.Between 2003 and 2005 he was an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at the University of Freiburg. Since then, he has been at the University of Oslo, first as a postdoctoral fellow, then as an associate professor of Latin, professor of classics, and professor of linguistics.
Haug has worked extensively on lexicalist syntax, formal semantics, and historical linguistics, as well as on developing computational and corpus linguistic methods and resources. He was the head of the PROIEL project and he is currently the director of the Centre for Digital Development at the Humanities Faculty at the University of Oslo.