Gunnar Hansson

Associate Professor

Faculty of Arts

Dept. of Linguistics

Vancouver Campus

Fields

Europe, History, Indigenous Issues, Language / Linguistics

Contact Information

gunnar.hansson@ubc.ca

phone: 604-822-4658

www.linguistics.ubc.ca/people/ghansson

Alternate Contact

Erik Rolfsen

Senior Media Relations Specialist

Tel: 604.822.2644

Cell: 604.209.3048

Email: erik.rolfsen@ubc.ca

Expertise

Phonetics (speech sounds), phonology (sound patterns, sound systems), language change, linguistic relationships (language families), reconstruction of proto-languages, language contact, Scandinavian languages (esp. Icelandic, Faroese, Swedish), Athabaskan (Dene) languages, Saami (Lapp) languages, Russian

Languages

Icelandic

Swedish

In the Media