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About Elisabet Engdahl
- 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 in detail.
- 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 entitled "The Syntax and Semantics of Questions in Swedish", supervised by Barbara Partee.She was a Sloan post-doctoral 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- Despite her retirement, Engdahl continues to research and publish focusing on syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and information structure.
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