Elisabet Engdahl

Who is Elisabet Engdahl?

Elisabet Engdahl is a Swedish linguist and professor of Swedish at the University of Gothenburg. 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 on a thesis on the syntax and semantics of questions in Swedish, supervised by Barbara Partee.

She was Sloan post-doctoral fellow in Cognitive Science at Stanford University, research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for psycho-linguistics at Nijmegen and at Lund University and assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Between 1986–95 she was attached to the Centre for Cognitive Science and the Human Communication Research Centre at the University of Edinburgh.

Engdahl has been a member of the Swedish Research Council since 2000 and is currently member of the Council for Research Infrastructures. She is a member of the scientific board for CASTL at the University of Tromsø 2007–2012.