Contact Information

Gunlög Josefsson
Scandinavian Languages
Centre for Languages and Literature

E-mail

Phone +46 (0)46 222 94 26

Fax +46 (0)46 222 32 11

Room L314b

Visiting Address
Helgonabacken 12

Postal Address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund

Internal Post Code 20

Gunlög Josefsson

I was born in Småland, and moved to Lund, where I studied to become a teacher. Having worked as a secondary school teacher for a couple of years I started my doctorate studies at Dept of Scandinavian languages at Lund University. I defended my thesis about word formation and syntax in 1997. Afterwards I worked in a project about language acquisition, held a post doc position, became assistant professor in Scandinavian languages 2001, and full professor in Swedish 2007. I have also worked on dialects, language history and the didactics of grammar. I presently work on gender systems in Swedish and related languages, as well as information structure.

I have been deputy head of Dept of Scandinavian languages, and also been in committees at faculty level. I am presently in the Ph.D. committee at the Faculties of Humanities and Theology. During 2009-2010 I work part time as an expert for the national Department of Education.

In my spare time I like to work on local history and be in my