Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen
  • Emil Holms Kanal 2

    2300 København S

    Denmark

Personal profile

Primary fields of research

  • The relationship between language-specific structure, communicative function, and cognition
  • The morphology and syntax of Danish Sign Language (DTS)

Current research

  • A type classification of adverbs and their positions in clauses in Danish Sign Language
  • The integration of the gesture PALM-UP as a grammatical element in Danish Sign Language
  • The focus marker DET-ER in Danish Sign Language
  • The sequential variation of depicting signs
  • Long-term aim: a grammar for Danish Sign Language (DTS)

Grants since 2011

  • Language and Cognition - Perspectives from Impairment (LaCPI) 2011-2014 (PI) - Danish Council for Independent Research - Culture and Communication (DKK 4,042,768) 
  • Speaker(un)certainty in sign language 2016-2017 - Oticon Foundation (DKK 57,826)
  • Danish Sign Language and SignGram Blueprint 2018-2019 - Augustinusfonden, Direktør Alfred Jacobsens Fond and Schwab Charitable Fund (DKK 175,438) 

Teaching

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  • Semantics and pragmatics

Supervision

  • Grammatical topics in Danish and Danish Sign Language (DTS)
  • Acquisition of grammar
  • Gesture and language
  • Topics in semantics, pragmatics and cognitive-functional grammar

CV

 

  • Professor emerita 2022-
  • Professor of applied linguistics 2009-2022
  • Associate professor of linguistics 1994-2009
  • PhD (dr.phil.) 1993
  • Assistant professor of the psychology of language 1984-1989
  • MA in linguistics 1979
  • BA in Danish 1973

 

Education/Academic qualification

Linguistics, MA

1 Oct 19733 Dec 1979

Award Date: 3 Dec 1979

Danish , BA

1 Sep 197130 Jun 1973

Award Date: 30 Jun 1973

External positions

research coordinator, The Center for Total Communication

19891992

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • cognitive-functional linguistics
  • Danish Sign Language (DTS)
  • autism and language