CV

Elisabet Engdahl, born 1949

Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, sept.1980, supervisor Barbara H. Partee.

Post-doctoral fellowship in Cognitive Science, Stanford University, 1980–81.

Visiting Research Fellow, Max-Planck Institut für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen sept–dec 1981.

Professor of Swedish, University of Gothenburg 2004–2014

Previous positions:

Assistant professor, Dept of Linguistics, Lund university1982–87.

Assistant professor, Dept of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1983–87

Lecturer, Department of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, Edinburgh University 1987–1991.

Principal investigator Human Communication Research Centre, 1989–1996.

Reader, Cognitive Science, Edinburgh University 1991–1996.

Senior lecturer (temp.) Department of Linguistics, Gothenburg University 1996–98.

Senior lecturer, Department of Swedish Language, Gothenburg University 1999–2004.

Professional activities:

• The standing committee for the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), member (1991–93) and chair (1994–96).
• Swedish Research Council, Scientific Council for the Humanities and Social science at the (member 2004–06, vice chair 2007–09), council for Research Infrastructures 2011–13.
• Nordic Board for Periodicals in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, member 2004–09, chair 2006–07).
• Centre for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (Norwegian CoE at Tromsø), Board of Directors 2008–12.
• Wallenberg Academy Fellows, Head of selection committee for Humanities 2012–14.
• Swedish National Data Service (SND), Board of Directors 2014–2016.

Evaluation of research proposals for National Science Foundation (USA), Canadian Research Council, Austrian Research Council, Icelandic Research Council, Joint Research Council Cognitive Science/Human Computer Interaction Initiative (UK), Science and Engineering Research Council (UK), Economic and Social Research Council (UK). Arts and Humanities Research Board (UK), Joint committee of the Nordic Research councils in the Humanities (NOS-H). Riksbankens jubileumsfond (Bank of Sweden Tercentenary fund), Swedish Research Council, evaluation panel for Linguistics (member 2001–03, chair 2004–2009)

Editorial activities:

Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, (prev. Synthese Language Library) managing editor (together with R.Cooper och R.E.Grandy) 1983–1988.

Nordic Journal of Linguistics, editorial board, 1984–pres.

Linguistics, editorial board, 1985–97.

Linguistics and Philosophy, editorial board 1994–98.

Natural Language Semantics, editorial board 1994–98.

Syntax & Semantics, editorial board 1995–2001.

Journal of Logic, Language and Information, editor 1996–2000.

Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics editorial board 1997–1999.

Ad hoc refereeing for international journals and publishers

Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Logic, Language and Information,

Journal of Logic Programming, Journal on Research in Language and Computation,

Language, Language and Cognitive Processes, Language in Contrast, Lingua

Linguistic Inquiry, Linguistics, Linguistics and Philosophy

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Nordic Journal of Linguistics, Norsk

Lingvistisk Tidskrift, Studia Linguistica, Språk och Stil

D.Reidel Publishing Company, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press,

Kluwer Academic Publishers, CSLI Publications, Stanford, MIT Press

Participation in research projects and research collaboration (selection)

‘Central Issues in Scandinavian Syntax’, with Christer Platzack, NOS-H and HSFR (1986–89).

‘Dynamic Interpretation of Natural Language' (DYANA-1), with R.Cooper, E.Klein, C.Mellish, G.Plotkin and H.Thompson, Edinburgh and partners at the universities of Amsterdam, München, Stuttgart and Tübingen, ESPRIT Basic Research Action, (1989–91).

‘Dynamic Interpretation of Natural Language' (DYANA-2), with R.Cooper, E.Klein, and M.Moens, Edinburgh and partners at the universities of Amsterdam, München, Oslo, Stuttgart, Tübingen and Utrecht, ESPRIT Basic Research Action, (1992–95).

‘Human Communication Research Centre’, an interdisciplinary research collaboration between the universities of Edinburgh, Durham and Glasgow, funded by ESRC (1989–96).

‘Comparative Semantics for Nordic Languages’, with R.Cooper, J.T.Lønning, K.J.Sæbø, F.Sørensen, C.Vikner, NOS-H (1998–2001)

‘Information exchange in dialogue’, with R.Cooper, Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Fund, (1998–2000).

‘Grammar in conversation’, with Bengt Nordberg, Jan Anward, Per Linell och Anne-Marie Londen, Riksbankens jubileumsfond, (2001–2006).

ScanDiaSyn Scandinavian Dialect Syntax, NOS-HS , 2005 –

Honours

Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, elected 2008

Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg, elected 2010

Honorary doctorate, Lund University 2012