Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1387-6724
Title
Content, Expression and Structure: Studies in Danish functional grammar
Edited by Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen, Michael Fortescue, Peter Harder, Lars Heltoft and Lisbeth Falster Jakobsen
This collection of papers offers an alternative to mainstream functional linguistics on two points. Especially in American linguistics, function and structure are often viewed almost as polar opposites; in addition, structure is often understood as being only a matter of linguistic form — or… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 29] 1996. xvi, 510 pp.
2021 Markers of epistemic modality and their origins: Evidence from two unrelated sign languages Studies in Language 45:2, pp. 277–320 | Article
Native deaf signers express epistemic modality by different means: mental-state words, clause-internal particles, signs indicating hypothesis, and nonmanually. The data for this study come from two unrelated sign languages, Danish Sign Language and Japanese Sign Language. In dialogues the… read more
2018 Inference from academic texts in children with autism Pragmatics & Cognition 25:2, pp. 363–383 | Article
Children and adults with autism do worse on tests of inferences than controls. This fact has been attributed to poor language skills, a tendency to focus on detail, and poor social understanding. This study examines whether children with autism with age-appropriate language and cognitive skills… read more
2010 Expressions of causation in Danish Sign Language Sign Language & Linguistics 13:1, pp. 40–67 | Article
The paper presents lexical and syntactic means of expressing causation in Danish Sign Language (DTS). Labile verbs are verbs that can be used both intransitively with an inchoative meaning and transitively with a causative meaning without a change in form and irrespective of the type of classifier… read more
1999 Space and Time Cognitive Semantics: Meaning and cognition, Allwood, Jens and Peter Gärdenfors (eds.), pp. 131–152 | Article
1996 Iconicity and arbitrariness Content, Expression and Structure: Studies in Danish functional grammar, Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth, Michael Fortescue, Peter Harder, Lars Heltoft and Lisbeth Falster Jakobsen (eds.), pp. 453–468 | Article
1996 Iconic motivations in conflict: Language-specific structure and influence from the medium Content, Expression and Structure: Studies in Danish functional grammar, Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth, Michael Fortescue, Peter Harder, Lars Heltoft and Lisbeth Falster Jakobsen (eds.), pp. 39–64 | Article