Elisabet Engdahl

Last updated
Elisabet Engdahl
Born
Elisabet Britt Engdahl

1949 (age 7374)
Scientific career
Fields Linguistics
Institutions University of Gothenburg
Stanford University
University of Edinburgh
Thesis The Syntax and Semantics of Questions in Swedish
Doctoral advisor Barbara Partee
Doctoral students Sue Sentance [1]
Website www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/elisabetengdahl

Elisabet Britt Engdahl (born 1949 in Stockholm) is a Swedish linguist and professor emerita of Swedish at the University of Gothenburg. She was the first linguist to investigate parasitic gaps [2] in detail.

Contents

Education

After having completed an MA at Uppsala University, she was awarded a studentship from the Sweden-America Foundation and pursued graduate studies in general linguistics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She received her PhD in 1980 for her dissertation on the Syntax and Semantics of Questions in Swedish, [3] supervised by Barbara Partee. [4] [5]

Career and research

She was a Sloan postdoctoral fellow in Cognitive Science at Stanford University, a research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for psycholinguistics at Nijmegen and at Lund University, and assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Between 1986 and 1995, she served as a reader at the Centre for Cognitive Science (now part of the School of Informatics) and the Human Communication Research Centre at the University of Edinburgh. In 1995, she took up a position at the University of Gothenburg and in 2004 she became professor of Swedish. [6] She retired in 2014 and currently lives in Mölndal.

Engdahl has been a member of the Swedish Research Council since 2000, and she still serves as a member on the Council for Research Infrastructures. [7] She is a member of the scientific board for CASTL (Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics) at the University of Tromsø, and she is involved in the Scandinavian Dialect Syntax Network. The ScanDiaSyn [8] network works on Scandinavian dialect syntax.

In 2008, she was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, and in 2010, to the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg. She received an honorary doctorate in 2012, awarded by Lund University.

Engdahl’s main research interests are in the area of syntax and semantics, in particular in the Scandinavian languages. [9] She is involved in the ScanDiaSyn [10] network, which works on Scandinavian dialect syntax. Despite her retirement, Engdahl continues to research and publish, focusing on syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and information structure. [11]

Publications

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">University of Gothenburg</span> University in Gothenburg, Sweden

The University of Gothenburg is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities and, with 37,000 students and 6,000 staff members, it is one of the largest universities in the Nordic countries.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Scanian dialect</span> Dialect of southern Swedish

Scanian is a dialect of Swedish spoken in the province of Scania in southern Sweden. Older Scanian formed part of the old Scandinavian dialect continuum and are by most historical linguists considered to be an East Danish dialect group, but due to the modern-era influence from Standard Swedish in the region and because traditional dialectology in the Scandinavian countries normally has not considered isoglosses that cut across state borders, the Scanian dialects have normally been treated as part of the South Swedish dialects by Swedish dialectologists. However, many of the early Scandinavian linguists, including Adolf Noreen and G. Sjöstedt, classified it as "South Scandinavian", and some linguists, such as Elias Wessén, also considered Old Scanian a separate language, classified apart from both Old Danish and Old Swedish.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ray Jackendoff</span> American linguist and philosophy professor

Ray Jackendoff is an American linguist. He is professor of philosophy, Seth Merrin Chair in the Humanities and, with Daniel Dennett, co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He has always straddled the boundary between generative linguistics and cognitive linguistics, committed to both the existence of an innate universal grammar and to giving an account of language that is consistent with the current understanding of the human mind and cognition.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Barbara Partee</span> American linguist

Barbara Hall Partee is a Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass).

Emmon Bach was an American linguist. He was Professor Emeritus at the Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), part of the University of London. He was born in Kumamoto, Japan.

The Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL) was established in 2002 as a Center of Excellence by the Norwegian Research Council. It is located in Tromsø, Norway, and is housed at the University of Tromsø. CASTL was founded by a core group of internationally respected linguists in Tromsø, and the funding made available by the Norwegian Research Council has since enabled the Center to more than double its staff size.

Angelika Kratzer is a professor emerita of linguistics in the department of linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Stefan Th. Gries is (full) professor of linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), Honorary Liebig-Professor of the Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, and since 1 April 2018 also Chair of English Linguistics at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen.

Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The modern-day scientific study of linguistics takes all aspects of language into account — i.e., the cognitive, the social, the cultural, the psychological, the environmental, the biological, the literary, the grammatical, the paleographical, and the structural. Linguistics is based on the theoretical as well as descriptive study of language, and is also interlinked with the applied fields of language studies and language learning, which entails the study of specific languages. Before the 20th century, linguistics evolved in an informal manner that did not employ scientific methods.

Cognitive semiotics is the study model of meaning-making, applying methods and theories from semiotics, linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, computational modeling, anthropology, philosophy and other sciences. Contrary to classical cognitive science, cognitive semiotics is explicitly involved with questions of meaning, having recourse, when possible, to semiotic terminology, although developing it when necessary. As against classical semiotics, cognitive semiotics aims to incorporate the results of other sciences, using methods ranging from conceptual and textual analysis as well as experimental and ethnographic investigations.

Anne Vainikka was a Finnish-American linguist specialising in the syntax of Finnish and in the syntax of second language acquisition (SLA).

Jens Allwood is a professor of linguistics at the University of Gothenburg and Head of SCCIIL - Interdisciplinary center, University of Gothenburg.

Karin Aijmer is a Swedish linguist whose research focuses on topics in pragmatics and discourse, including ways of expressing epistemic modality/evidentiality, pragmatic markers, conversational routines and other fixed phrases. She uses corpus-based methods involving both monolingual and multilingual corpora of English and Swedish for data. She received her PhD in English Linguistics from Stockholm University in 1972. She has been an associate professor in the Department of English at Oslo University and at Lund University and is now professor emerita in the Department of Languages and Literatures at the University of Gothenburg.

Dr. Lisa Green is a linguist specializing in syntax and African American English (AAE). She is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In July 2020 she was awarded the title of Distinguished Professor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andrej Kibrik</span>

Andrej Kibrik is a Russian linguist, the director of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and professor at the Philological Faculty of the Moscow State University. Member of the Academia Europaea since 2013.

David Adger, is a Professor of Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London. Adger is interested in the human capacity for syntax. Adger served as president of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain from 2015 to 2020.

In linguistics, the autonomy of syntax is the assumption that syntax is arbitrary and self-contained with respect to meaning, semantics, pragmatics, discourse function, and other factors external to language. The autonomy of syntax is advocated by linguistic formalists, and in particular by generative linguistics, whose approaches have hence been called autonomist linguistics.

Laura J. Downing is an American linguist, specializing in the phonology of African languages.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carita Paradis</span> Swedish linguist

Carita Paradis is a Swedish linguist, and Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lund University.

References

  1. Sentance, Susan (1993). Recognising and responding to English article usage errors : an ICALL based approach. ed.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh. hdl:1842/20176. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.661745. Lock-green.svg
  2. Engdahl, Elisabet (1983) Parasitic gaps. Linguistics and Philosophy 6(1), 5–34.
  3. Engdahl, Elisabet (1980). The Syntax and Semantics of Questions in Swedish (PhD thesis). University of Massachusetts Amherst. OCLC   969920859.
  4. A revised version appeared in 1986: Constituent Questions: The Syntax and Semantics of Questions with Special Reference to Swedish. Dordrecht: Reidel.
  5. "List of Alumni | Linguistics | UMass Amherst". www.umass.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-13.
  6. "Staff". Göteborgs universitet. 2008-12-17. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
  7. "Council for Research Infrastructure - Vetenskapsrådet". www.vr.se. Archived from the original on 2012-01-20.
  8. "Nordic Dialect Corpus".
  9. "Elisabet Engdahl - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.se. Retrieved 2018-02-13.
  10. "Nordic Dialect Corpus".
  11. Engdahl, Elisbeth. "Elisabet Engdahl - PhD (UMass 1980) - University of Gothenburg, Göteborg - GU - Department of Swedish". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2018-08-28.