Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen

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