Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen

Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen

  • Emil Holms Kanal 2

    2300 København S

    Denmark

1979 …2019

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Current research

  • Epistemic modality in Danish Sign Language (DTS) and Japanese Sign Language
  • Production and comprehension of linguistic perspective in children with autism
  • Reading comprehension in children with autism 

 

Grants

  • 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 (PI) - Oticon Foundation (DKK 57,826)
  • Danish Sign Language and SignGram Blueprint 2018-2019 (PI) - Augustinusfonden, Direktør Alfred Jacobsens Fond and Schwab Charitable Fund (DKK 175,438) 

Primary fields of research

  • Linguistic expressions of perspective
  • The relationship between language-specific structure and cognition
  • Autism and language
  • The morphology and syntax of Danish Sign Language (DTS)

Teaching

  • Danish grammar
  • The grammar of spoken Danish
  • Grammatical analysis
  • Introduction to linguistics
  • Cognitive-functional linguistics
  • Linguistic methodology
  • Linguistic theories
  • 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

Photo: Martin Mydtskov Rønne

  • Professor of applied linguistics 2009-
  • 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

 

External positions

The Center for Total Communication

19891992

Keywords

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

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