Helge Julius Jakhelln Dyvik (born December 23, 1947) is a Norwegian linguistics professor. Dyvik was born in Bodø. After receiving a master's degree from the University of Bergen in 1972, he studied Old English and Middle English at Durham University in 1973, and then in 1976 received a master's degree in Nordic languages from the University of Bergen, where he also received his doctorate in 1983 with a dissertation in theoretical linguistics titled Grammatikk og empiri: en syntaktisk modell og dens forutsetninger (Grammar and Empiricism: A Syntactic Model and its Assumptions). In 1987 he received the Fridtjof Nansen Award for Excellence. He has worked at the University of Bergen's Department of Linguistics, Literary, and Aesthetic Studies as a professor of general linguistics since 1983.