Born 12th of March 1966
Ph.D. 1996 in Italian Linguistics, Department of Romance Languages, Lund University
Dossentti at the Department of Romance Languages, University of Helsinki.
Professor in Romance Languages, Italian, University of Lund, since 2005.
Egerland’s central area of research is Italian syntax. The topic of his 1996 doctoral dissertation is Medieval and Renaissance Italian grammar. Egerland obtained the post-doctoral Diploma in Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Venice in 1997 and, in the same year, he was appointed professor ad interim of Italian Philology at the University of Helsinki, Finland, a position he held for one year until 1998. He has received the degree of "Dossentti" at the Romance Languages department in Helsinki. Egerland was promoted to professor of Romance languages at Lund University in 2005.
In 1997, Egerland was invited to take part in the Italant project, the purpose of which is to write the first comprehensive descriptive grammar of Old Italian. His publications include work on absolute constructions, the grammatical relevance of aspect and tense, as well as the syntax and semantics of pronouns. Further, Egerland takes a comparative and diachronic approach to the study of Italian dialects, combining his interest in grammar with issues relevant for linguistic variation and standardisation.
Externally funded research projects:
Norm, Variation, and Standardisation (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond 2004-2005), in collaboration with Vesta Sandberg, was dedicated to the study of the reference of implicit arguments in French and Italian.
Grammatical Categories in Germanic and Romance (Vetenskapsrådet, since 2007), is concerned with the comparative study of grammatical features in several Germanic and Romance languages.
