Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen

List of John Benjamins publications for which Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen plays a role.

Book series

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

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 29] 1996. xvi, 510 pp.
Subjects Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Typology
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
Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth 2018 Inference from academic texts in children with autismPragmatics & 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
Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth 2010 Expressions of causation in Danish Sign LanguageSign 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
Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth 1999 Space and TimeCognitive Semantics: Meaning and cognition, Allwood, Jens and Peter Gärdenfors (eds.), pp. 131–152 | Article
Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth 1996 Iconicity and arbitrarinessContent, 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
Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth 1996 Iconic motivations in conflict: Language-specific structure and influence from the mediumContent, 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