Dr. Eva Liina Asu
Languages, Linguistics, Phonetics, intonation
Assoc. Prof. Eva Klingvall
Nominated by
- Swedish Research Council
- AcademiaNet member since 20.04.2022
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Employed by
- Lund University
Academic Discipline/Fields
- Arts and humanities
Field
Languages
Area of specialisation
Theoretical linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics
Research interests
My research interests fall into two areas: theoretical linguistics (in particular syntax, semantics and pragmatics, but also word formation) and language processing (psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics).
In my current research, I use EEG to look at the brain's processing of anaphoric pronouns that refer back to quantified expression or to referential noun-phrases. As part of this research, I investigate the discourse focus properties of different types of quantifying expressions and discuss issues such as why negative quantifying expressions often allow and even prefer a switch in reference from a set of entities for which some property holds, to a set of entities for which it does not hold. More in general, I am interested in the processing of ambiguous expressions and in linguistic negation at different levels.
My theoretical work focuses on issues connected to argument licensing and argument alternations in, for instance, middle constructions, passives, and tough-constructions in English and Swedish. In those contexts, I have also been concerned with the interaction between morphological agreement and scope relations. I am also interested in the role played by adjectives and adverbs in generic descriptions.
Interested in
- Lectures, Membership in scientific bodies, Professorship, Refereeing
Doctorate
- 2008: (De)composing the middle
Short CV/Education and training
- Since 2013Senior Lecturer, Lund University, Sweden
- 2010 – 2012Researcher, Lund University, Sweden
- 2008 – 2010Post doctoral researcher, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
- 2008PhD in English linguistics, Lund University, Sweden
- 2003MA in English, Lund University, Sweden
Selected publications
Klingvall, E. & F. Heinat. 2022. Referential choices. A study on quantification and discourse salience in sentence production in Swedish. Journal of Pragmatics 193: 122--138.
Klingvall, E. & F. Heinat. 2022. The effects of quantifier size on the construction of discourse models. Journal of Neurolinguistics 63: 101066 doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2022.101066
Klingvall, E. & F. Heinat. 2021. Negative properties of quantifiers in English and Swedish. Studii de lingvistică 11:149-161
Heinat F. & E. Klingvall. 2020. Set focus and anaphoric reference: an ERP study. Brain and Language: 206, 104808. doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2020.-104808
Klingvall, E. & F. Heinat. 2019. The range of quantifiers: an empirical investigation of set size. The Sign of the V, ed. K. Ramshoj Christensen, H. Jörgensen and J. Wood. Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University.
Heinat, F & E. Klingvall. 2019. Anaphoric reference to quantified expressions in Swedish. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. doi.org/10.1007/s10936-018-9618-z
Klingvall, E. 2018. Agreement and reconstruction correlate in Swedish: Evidence from tough-constructions. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 36: 1165-1205. DOI: 10.1007/s11049-017-9398-4. ISSN: 1573-0859 0167-806X
Selected projects
Memory Representations and Language Processing (Funded by the Swedish Research Council. 2021- 01302. PI: E Klingvall) 2022 – 2025
Quantification in Swedish (Funded by the Swedish Research Council. 2018-01074. PI: F Heinat) 2019 – 2021
Ambiguous anaphoric reference in discourse (Funded by Åke Wibergs Stif-
telse. H19-0265. PI: F Heinat) 2020
Referential preferences in sentence processing (Funded by Gunvor och
Josef Anérs stiftelse. FB20-0034. PI: E Klingvall) 2020 – 2021
Set size and reference (Funded by Stiftelsen Olle
Engkvist byggmästare. 191-437. PI: F Heinat) 2018 – 2019
Variation i referens till kvantitativa nominalfraser. (Funded by Erik
Wellanders fond. PI: E Klingvall).
Linguistic acceptability and working memory. (Funded by the Crafoord
Foundation. 20160801. PI: E Klingvall)
Additional qualifications
Associate Professor (Docent) in 2018
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