I am an Associate Professor (docent) in sign language linguistics and Head of the Sign Language Section of the Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University. During 2009–2011, I was the principal investigator for a three-year project to set up a corpus of Swedish Sign Language, financed by a grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. Nowadays, I am co-PI for a three-year project "Från
tal till tecken – att lära sig Svenskt teckenspråk som andraspråk" [From speech
to sign – to learn Swedish Sign Language as a second language] with Dr. Krister Schönström, financed by by a grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsbank 2017–2019.
More information about the Swedish Sign Language corpus is available at our homepage (http://www.ling.su.se/teckensprakskorpus). During 2009-2010, I was a member of the Sign Linguistics Corpora Network (http://www.ru.nl/slcn/) research group, a three-year project funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Part of my work is teaching sign linguistics.
My research interests include tactile signing, cross linguistic comparisons of signed languages, signed poetry, and I also look forward to many corpus-based studies. I am also involved in the work team of lexicographic work of Swedish Sign Language at our Department, teckensprakslexikon.su.se
I serve as a visiting professor at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Florianopólis, Brazil, in August-October 2018.
Some of my ongoing projects:
Svensk teckenspråkskorpus - Swedish Sign Language Corpus, i.e. project leading and annotation work
Corpus-based studies of backchannel signals and the buoy DELIMITER
Gemensamt teckenrum i taktilt samtal mellan två personer med dövblindhet, Signing space in tactile signing for persons with acquired deafblindness (Mo Gårds Forskningsfond)
Korpus i svenskt teckenspråk som andraspråk - Corpus of Swedish Sign Language as L2
Towards the investigation of rhythm in the sentences of Finnish and Swedish Sign Language
Syntactic annotation as a part of Swe-Clarin
Transitivity of Swedish Sign Language verbs https://asam2018.wordpress.com/
Calendric Terms in Swedish Sign Language http://ujkn.ff.cuni.cz/en/research/calendric-terms/
I has been one of the board members managing the new BA program in sign language and interpreting at Stockholm University 2013–2017. I am also vice-chair in Sign Language Linguistics Society 2013–2019. SLLS is the link between researchers on sign languages. It is responsible for running the international conference on sign linguistics, TISLR (next TISLR in Hamburg 2019).