Publications

• Skrzypek, Dominika & Elisabet Engdahl (2025) From 'remain' to 'become': the history of bliva in Swedish. Nordic Journal of Linguistics (2025), 1–27. doi:10.1017/S0332586524000234

• Lindahl, Filippa & Elisabet Engdahl (2024) Objektsplacering i talad svenska. I: Denny Jansson, Ida Melander, Gustav Westberg & Daroon Yassin Falk (red.) Svenskans beskrivning 38.1. Örebro: Örebro universitet, 148–164. (link)

• Andréasson, Maia & Elisabet Engdahl (2024) Jag tror inte det vs. Jag tror det inte.  Fri variation? Vi tror inte det. I: Denny Jansson, Ida Melander, Gustav Westberg & Daroon Yassin Falk (red.) Svenskans beskrivning 38.1. Örebro: Örebro universitet, 117–132. (link)

• Engdahl, Elisabet (2024) Passive with control and raising in mainland Scandinavian. Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 47(1):1–41.  https://doi.org/10.1017/S0332586522000087

• Engdahl, Elisabet (2022) Minnesord över Cecilia Falk. Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien Årsbok  2022. Stockholm: KVHAA, 35–44. (pdf )

• Lindahl, Filippa & Elisabet Engdahl (2022)  The pragmatics and syntax of pronoun preposing: A study of spoken Swedish. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 25:169– 219. (link)

• Engdahl, Elisabet & Filippa Lindahl (2022) Extractions and pronoun preposing in Scandinavian. Languages 7: 128. (link) 

• Engdahl, Elisabet, Per Linell and Niklas Norén (2021) Pivåyttranden och pivoider i svenskan. Språk och Stil  31(2):5–38. (link)

• Zaenen, Annie &  Elisabet Engdahl (2021)  Four Swedish verbs and a functional distinction. In I Wayan Arka, Ash Asudeh and Tracy Holloway King (eds) Modular Design of Grammar: Linguistics on the Edge,125–135. Oxford: OUP. (pdf )

• Engdahl, Elisabet &  Annie Zaenen (2020)  Grammatical function selection in Swedish object shift. In Miriam Butt and Ida Toivonen (eds) Proceedings of the LFG'20 Conference, On-Line, 109--126. Stanford: CSLI Publications. (link) 

• Engdahl, Elisabet (2020) Review of  Jan Terje Faarlund: The Syntax of Mainland Scandinavian. Norsk  Lingvistisk Tidsskrift 38(1):153–172. (link)

• Engdahl, Elisabet, Halldór Sigurðsson,  Annie Zaenen &  Joan Maling (2020) Thematic constraints on presentational sentences in Icelandic and Swedish.  Íslenskt mál 41–42:123–165. (pdf )

• Engdahl, Elisabet, Annie Zaenen &  Joan Maling (2020) Deconstructing Subjects: Presentational Sentences in Swedish. In Anne Abeillé & Olivier Bonami (eds.), Constraint-based Syntax and Semantics. Papers in Honor of Danièle Godard, 187–214. Stanford: CSLI Publications. (pdf)

• Engdahl, Elisabet, Joan Maling, Halldór Sigurðsson &  Annie Zaenen (2018) Presentational sentences in Icelandic and Swedish: Roles and positions. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 101:1–28. (link)

• Engdahl, Elisabet & Per Linell (2018)  Responsivitet, inkrementering och dynamisk förändring: Om yttranden som processer och produkter. Språk och interaktion 4(5):111–144.  (pdf)

• Engdahl, Elisabet (2017) Expletive passives in Scandinavian – with and without objects. In Michelle Sheehan & Laura R. Bailey (eds), Order and structure in syntax II: Subjecthood and argument structure, 289–306. Berlin: Language Science Press (link)

• Engdahl, Elisabet & Elizabeth Coppock (2017) Absolut superlativ i samtida språkbruk.  Språk & Stil 27:5–20. (link)

• Zaenen, Annie, Elisabet Engdahl & Joan Maling (2017) Subject properties in presentational sentences in Icelandic and Swedish. In Victoria Rosén & Koenrad De Smedt (eds) The very model of a modern linguist : In honor of Helge Dyvik, 260–281. (Bergen Language and Linguistic Studies 8.) (link)

• Gregersen,  Frans, Elisabet Engdahl & Anu Laanemets (2017) Introduction to the special issue on variation in auxiliary selection. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 49(2):109–117. (link)

• Rosenkvist, Henrik & Elisabet Engdahl (2017) Från NORMS till GRAMINO. Inledning.  Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift 35(1):3–10. (link)

• Coppock, Elizabeth & Elisabet Engdahl (2016) Quasi-definites in Swedish: Elative superlatives and emphatic assertion. Natural language and linguistic theory 34(4):1181–1243. (link)

• Engdahl. Elisabet & Anu Laanemets (2015) Opersonlig passiv i danska, norska och svenska – en korpusstudie. Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift 33(2):129–156. (link)

• Engdahl, Elisabet & Anu Laanemets (2015) Prepositional passives in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish: A corpus study. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 38(3):285–337.

• Laanemets, Anu & Elisabet Engdahl (2015) Findes der præpositionspassiv i dansk? In Inger Schoonderbeek Hansen & Tina Thode Hougaard (eds) 15. Møde om Udforskningen af Dansk Sprog Aarhus Universitet 9.-10. oktober 2014.  Aarhus University. (link)

• Engdahl, Elisabet & Filippa Lindahl (2014) Preposed object pronouns in mainland Scandinavian. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 92:1–32. (link)

• Engdahl, Elisabet (2014) "Javisst säger vi så" Om javisst som satsbas i modern svenska. In Karin Helgesson, Hans Landquist, Benjamin Lyngfelt, Jenny Nilsson & Catrin Norrby (eds) Fint språk / Good language. Festskrift till Lars-Gunnar Andersson, 35–45. Göteborg.

• Andréasson, Maia, Kristine Bentzen & Elisabet Engdahl (2013) Introduction: Object shift in the Nordic languages. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 36(2):109–114. (link)

• Engdahl, Elisabet (2013) Strange things happen on extraction paths.    (link)

• Engdahl, Elisabet (2012) Optional expletive subjects in Swedish. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 35(2):99–144. (link)

Earlier publications

     Books and edited volumes

 Engdahl, Elisabet (1980) The Syntax and Semantics of Questions in Swedish. Dissertation, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 242 p. 

Engdahl, Elisabet & Eva Ejerhed (eds.) (1982) Readings on Unbounded Dependencies in Scandinavian Languages, Almquist & Wiksell International, Stockholm, 230 p. 

Engdahl, Elisabet (1986) Constituent Questions: The Syntax and Semantics of Questions with Special Reference to Swedish, Reidel, Dordrecht, 337 p. 

Engdahl, Elisabet & Kerstin Norén (red.) (2000) Att använda SAG: 29 uppsatser om Svenska Akademiens grammatik. Meddelanden från Institutionen för svenska språket 33. 455p.  

Engdahl, Elisabet & Anne-Marie Londen (2007) Interaktion och kontext. Nio studier av svenska samtal [Interaction and Context. Nine studies of Swedish conversations]. Lund: Studentlitteratur, 367p.

Articles in journals and anthologies

 Engdahl, Elisabet (1980) WH-Constructions in Swedish and the Relevance of Subjacency. Proceedings of NELS 10, Cahiers Linguistiques d'Ottawa 9, 98–108. (pdf)

Engdahl, Elisabet (1980) Unbounded Dependencies with Bound Anaphors. In E. Hovdhaugen (ed.) The Nordic Languages and Modern Linguistics, Universitetsforlaget, Oslo, 251–62.

Zaenen, Annie, Elisabet Engdahl and Joan Maling (1981) Resumptive Pronouns Can Be Syntactically. Bound Linguistic Inquiry 12(4), 679–692. 

Engdahl, Elisabet (1982) A Note on the Use of Lambda Conversion in Generalized Phrase-Structure Grammars.  Linguistics and Philosophy  4(4), 404–15.

Engdahl, Elisabet (1982) Restrictions on Unbounded Dependencies in Swedish. In E. Engdahl & E. Ejerhed (eds.)  Readings on Unbounded Dependencies in Scandinavian Languages,  Almquist & Wiksell  International, Stockholm, 151–174.

Engdahl, Elisabet (1982) Interpreting sentences with multiple filler-gap dependencies. Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics 24, Lund University, 21-48. (pdf)

Engdahl, Elisabet (1982) Constituent Questions, Topicalization, and Surface Structure Interpretation. In Flickinger, D., M.Macken and N. Wiegand (eds) Proceedings from the First West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Stanford. (pdf)

Engdahl, Elisabet (1983) Parasitic gaps. Linguistics and Philosophy  6(1), 5–34. (Reprinted in Peter W. Culicover and Paul M. Postal (eds.) Parasitic Gaps, MIT Press, 2001, 69–97.)

Engdahl, Elisabet (1984) Why some empty subjects don’t license parasitic gaps. In Cobler, M., S. Mackaye & M. Wescoat (eds) Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics Vol 3, 91–104. Stanford. (link)

Engdahl, Elisabet (1985) Parasitic Gaps, Resumptive Pronouns, and Subject Extractions, Linguistics, 23(1), 3–44. (pdf)

Engdahl, Elisabet (1985) Interpreting Questions. In D. Dowty, L. Karttunen, & A. Zwicky (eds.) Natural Language Parsing: Psycholinguistic Computational, and Theoretical Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, 67–93.

Engdahl, Elisabet (1985) Non-argument questions. Paper presented at the Comparative Germanic syntax workshop in Reykjavík, June 1985. (pdf)

Engdahl, Elisabet (1985) The scope of why. Paper presented at LSA, December 1985. (pdf)

Cooper, Kathrin and Elisabet, Engdahl (1989) Null Subjects in Zürich German. In L.O.Delsing, C.Falk & C.Platzack (eds.) Comparative Germanic Syntax, (Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 44), Lund University, 31–44.

Engdahl, Elisabet (1990) Argument Roles and Anaphora,  in R.Cooper, K.Mukai and J.Perry (eds) Situation Theory and Its Applications, CSLI Lecture Note Series, Stanford, 393–407.(pdf)

Engdahl, Elisabet (1991) Parametric Variation, in E.Klein and F.Veltman (eds.) Dynamic Interpretation: Proceedings of ESPRIT Symposium on Natural Language and Speech, Springer Verlag, 85–94. (pdf)

Zaenen, Annie and Elisabet Engdahl (1994) Descriptive and Theoretical Syntax in the Lexicon. In B.E.Atkins  and A.Zampolli (eds.) Computational Approaches to the Lexicon, Oxford University Press, 217–258.

Vallduví, Enric and  Elisabet Engdahl (1995) Information packaging and grammar architecture. In J.Beckman (ed.) Proceedings of NELS 25, University of Pennsylvania, 519–533.

Vallduví, Enric and  Elisabet Engdahl (1996) The linguistic realization of information packaging Linguistics 34, 459–519. (pdf)

Engdahl, Elisabet and Enric Vallduví (1996) Information packaging in HPSG. In C.Grover and E. Vallduví (eds.) Studies in HPSG. Edinburgh Working Papers in Cognitive Science, Vol 12, 1–31.

Engdahl, Elisabet (1997) Scandinavian Relatives Revisited. In F.Faber and F. Sørensen (eds) From Words to Utterances in LSP. Copenhagen Studies in Language. 20, 59–86. Copenhagen: Samfundslitteratur. 

Engdahl, Elisabet (1997) Relative Clause Extraction in Context. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 60, Dept of Scandinavian Languages, Lund, 59–86. (pdf)

Güngörd, Zelal & Elisabet Engdahl (1998) A Relational Approach to Relativization in Turkish. In G.Bouma, G-J Kruijff & R.T.Oehrle (eds) Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Formal Grammar, Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar and Categorial Grammar, Saarbrücken, August 1998, 125-135. 

Engdahl, Elisabet (1999) “Det var det ingen som ville” om spetsställningens form, funktion och restriktioner i svenska. In L-G.Andersson, A.Lundqvist, K.Norén and L. Rogström (eds.) Svenskans beskrivning 23, Lund University Press, 96-105. (pdf)

Engdahl, Elisabet (1999) Integrating pragmatics in the grammar. In. L.Mereu (ed.) Boundaries of Syntax and Morphology. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 175–194. 

Engdahl, Elisabet (1999)  The choice between bli-passive and s-passive in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. NORDSEM Report 3.  (link)

Robin Cooper, Elisabet Engdahl, Staffan Larsson and Stina Ericsson (2000): Accommodating questions and the nature of QUD. In M.Poesio and D.Traum (eds.) Proceedings of Götalog 2000, 57–62.

Engdahl, Elisabet (2000) ”Ordinarie platser” och ”övergivna spår”. I Engdahl & Norén (eds), Att använda SAG: 29 uppsatser om Svenska Akademiens grammatik. Meddelanden från Institutionen för svenska språket 33, 67–76.

Engdahl, Elisabet (2001) Versatile parasitic gaps. In P.Culicover and P.Postal (eds.) Parasitic Gaps, MIT Press, 127–145. 

Engdahl, Elisabet (2001) Valet av passivform i modern svenska.  I: L. Jönsson, V. Adelswärd, A. Cederberg, P. Pettersson & C. Kelly (red.), Svenskans beskrivning 24 (Studies in Language and Culture 2.) Linköping: Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för språk och kultur, s. 81–90. (link)  

Engdahl, Elisabet (2001) The role of syntactic features in the analysis of dialogue. In C.Rohrer, A.Roßdeutscher & H.Kamp (eds.) Linguistic Form and its Computation. CSLI, Stanford, 111-142.

Engdahl, Elisabet (2001) Scandinavian Passives in HPSG. In A.Holmer, J-O. Svantesson & Å.Viberg (eds.) Proceedings of the 18th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics. Vol 2. (Travaux de l'institut de linguistique de Lund 39:2) Universitetstryckeriet, Lund, 23–36. 

Börjars, Kersti, Elisabet Engdahl & Maia Andréasson (2003) Subject and Object Positions in Swedish. In M.Butt & T.Holloway King (eds.): Proceedings of the LFG03 Conference. CSLI, Stanford, 43–58.  (link)

Engdahl, Elisabet (2003) Med fokus på subjektet. In L-O.Delsing, C.Falk, G.Josefsson & H.Sigurdsson  (eds.) Grammatik i fokus. Festskrift till Christer Platzack den 18 november 2003. Institutionen för nordiska språk, Lund, 95–105. 

Engdahl, Elisabet, Maia Andréasson & Kersti Börjars (2004) Word order in the Swedish midfield – an OT approach. In F.Karlsson (ed) Papers from the 20th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, University of Helsinki, Department of General Linguistics,  Publications No. 36, 1–13. ISBN 952-10-2269-8. <http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/kielitiede/20scl/proceedings.shtml 

Engdahl, Elisabet (2006) Information Packaging in Questions. In Olivier Bonami & Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (eds.) Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 6, p. 93–111. Paris. http://www.cssp.cnrs.fr/eiss6/index_en.html 

Engdahl, Elisabet (2006) Semantic and syntactic patterns in Swedish passives. In B. Lyngfelt & T. Solstad (eds.) Demoting the Agent. Passive, middle and other voice phenomena. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 21–45. (pdf)

Engdahl, Elisabet (2007) Flerfunktionellt det. [Polyfunctional det] I Milles, Karin & Anna Vogel (red.) Språkets roll och räckvidd. (Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis: Stockholm Studies in Scandinavian Philology. New Series 42.) Stockholm, 97–106.

Engdahl, Elisabet & Kerstin Norén (2007) Negotiating about lexical meanings. Poster presented at The Fourth International Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon, Paris. (link)

Engdahl, Elisabet (2008) Frågor i NoTa. In Johannesen, Janne Bondi & Kristin Hagen (eds) Språk i Oslo. Ny forskning omkring talespråk. Oslo: Novus forlag, 109–118. (link) 

Engdahl, Elisabet (2008) Thænne vægh var thiokker at ridha – Ett tidigt exempel på adjektiv med infinitivbestämning. In Jóhannesson, Kristinn, Hans Landqvist, Aina Lundqvist, Lena Rogström, Emma Sköldberg & Barbro Wallgren Hemlin (red.) Nog ordat: Festskrift till Sven-Göran Malmgren den 25 april 2008.  Göteborg: Meijerbergs institut för etymologisk forskning, 74–81. (pdf)

Engdahl, Elisabet (2009) Språkkänsla [Linguistic intuitions]. I: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademiens årsbok, 95–109. http://hdl.handle.net/2077/21772

Engdahl, Elisabet (2010) Vad händer med subjektstvånget? Om det-inledda satser utan subjekt [What is happening to the subject requirement? On subjectless clauses introduced by det]. Språk och Stil 20, 89–104. http://hdl.handle.net/2077/24048

Reviews

Engdahl, Elisabet (1979) Critical notice: M.J. Cresswell, Logics and Languages. Synthese 40, 375–387.

Engdahl, Elisabet (1983) Review of P.Jacobson and G.Pullum (eds.) The Nature of Syntactic Representation.  Studia Linguistica 37.

Engdahl, Elisabet (1984) Review of C.Platzack: Modern grammatisk teori. Studia Linguistica 38, 94-97.

Engdahl, Elisabet (1997) Review of M.Dalrymple, R.Kaplan, J.Maxwell and A.Zaenen (eds.) Formal Issues in Lexical–functional grammar, Literary and Linguistic Computing 12(2),143–144.

Engdahl, Elisabet & Kerstin Norén (2000) Svenska Akademiens grammatik – en resurs för forskning och undervisning. Språk & Stil 10 (ny följd), 165–195.

Engdahl, Elisabet (2003) Review of Ulla Stroh-Wollin: Som-satser med och utan som. Språk & Stil 13, 270–277.

Engdahl, Elisabet (2011) Review of Johan Brandtler: The Evaluability Hypothesis: The Syntax and Semantics of Polarity Item Licensing in Swedish. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 34(1), 61–65.

Engdahl, Elisabet (2018) Recension: Sanna skärlund, Man, en och du.G eneriska pronomen i svenskans historia. Arkiv för nordisk filologi 133, 131–136. (link)

Deliverables and reports

Engdahl, Elisabet & Mike Reape (eds.) (1990) Parametric Variation in Germanic and Romance: Preliminary Investigations, DYANA  Report 1.1.A.,(ESPRIT Basic Research Action 3175), 114 p.

Engdahl, Elisabet,  Mike Reape, Martin Mellor & Richard Cooper (eds.) (1990) Parametric Variation in Germanic and Romance: Proceedings from a DYANA workshop, Edinburgh Working Papers in Cognitive Science, Vol. 6, 244 p.

Engdahl, Elisabet (ed.) (1994) Integrating information structure into constraint-based and categorial approaches, DYANA-2  Report 1.3.B. (ESPRIT Basic Research Action 6852) ILLC/Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, 116p. 

Güngördü, Zelal & Elisabet Engdahl (1998) An HPSG Account of Relativization in Turkish Using Relational Constraints. Technical Report BU-CEIS-9806, Bilkent University, Ankara. (link) 

Engdahl, Elisabet, Staffan Larsson and Stina Ericsson (2000) Focus-ground articulation and parallelism in a dynamic model of dialogue. TRINDI Deliverable D4.1.47 p. http://www.ling.gu.se/projekt/trindi/publications.html

Popular science

 Engdahl, Elisabet (2010) Fånga språkkänslan [Capture the language instinct!]. Språktidningen 2010/4, 51–55