Person

Reader
- English Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail eva.klingvallenglund.luse
Room SOL:H332b
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
My main research interests are within theoretical linguistics (syntax, semantics, pragmatics, morphology) and neurolinguistics. I currently look at the role of memory in language processing. In a series of EEG experiments I investigate how the brain's processing of pronouns (e.g. he, she) is affected by, on the one hand, the distance between the pronoun and the phrase it refers back to and, on the other hand, the information density of the phrase it refers back to. In previous projects, I have looked at the processing of pronouns referring back to quantifying expressions (e.g. almost all/almost no students attended the lecture... they...), and more generally at how anaphoric expressions are processed in the brain. I am a member of AcademiaNet - Outstanding Women Scientists in Europe and I am part of the network NLS - Neurolinguistics in Sweden.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- Quantifiers and anaphoric set interpretation (research leader)
- Establishing new reference in discourse
- Referential preferences in sentence processing (research leader)
- When agents disappear: on the morpho-syntax, semantics and informational value of passive, middle and active impersonal constructions
- Cognitive Constraints on Sentence Processing
- Passives in English: the properties of the direct object
- Universality and domain-specificity: processing relative clause extractions in Swedish
- Set size and reference
- Ambiguous anaphoric reference in discourse
- Variation in gender agreement in modern Swedish
- Variation i referens till kvantitativa nominalfraser
Books (1)
Editorships (3)
- Brandtler, J., Håkansson, D., Huber, S. & Klingvall, E. (2012). (Eds.) Discourse & Grammar : A Festschrift in Honor of Valéria Molnár. Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University.
- Heinat, F., Klingvall, E. & Manninen, S. (2006). (Eds.) The Department of English in Lund : Working Papers in Linguistics Vol. 6. The Department of English in Lund: Working Papers in Linguistics, 6. The Department of English, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University.
- Heinat, F. & Klingvall, E. (2005). (Eds.) The Department of English in Lund : Working Papers in Linguistics Vol. 5. The Department of English in Lund: Working Papers in Linguistics, 5. The Department of English, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University.
Articles (8)
- Klingvall, E. & Heinat, F. (2022). Referential choices. A study on quantification and discourse salience in sentence production in Swedish. Journal of Pragmatics, 193, 122-138. Elsevier.
- Klingvall, E. & Heinat, F. (2022). The effects of quantifier size on the construction of discourse models. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 63. Elsevier.
- Klingvall, E. & Heinat, F. (2021). Negative properties of quantifiers in English and Swedish. Studii de lingvistică, 11. University of Oradea Publishing House.
- Heinat, F. & Klingvall, E. (2020). Set focus and anaphoric reference : An ERP study. Brain and Language, 206. Elsevier.
- Heinat, F. & Klingvall, E. (2019). Anaphoric reference to quantified expressions in Swedish. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 48, 551-568. Springer.
- Klingvall, E. (2018). Agreement and reconstruction correlate in Swedish : Evidence from tough-constructions. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 36, 1165-1205. Springer.
- Tutunjian, D., Heinat, F., Klingvall, E. & Wiklund, A.-L. (2017). Processing relative clause extractions in Swedish. Frontiers in Psychology, 8. Frontiers Media S. A..
- Klingvall, E. (2012). Complex non-compound words in Swedish. Studia Linguistica, 66, 1-31. Wiley-Blackwell.
Book chapters (4)
- Klingvall, E. & Heinat, F. (2019). The range of quantifiers : an empirical investigation of set size. In Ramshoj Christensen, K., Jorgensen, H. & Wood, J. L. (Eds.) The Sign of the V. : Papers in Honour of Sten Vikner.. Aarhus University.
- Wiklund, A.-L., Heinat, F., Klingvall, E. & Tutunjian, D. (2017). An acceptability study of long-distance extractions in Swedish. In Escobar, L., Torrens, V. & Parodi, T. (Eds.) Language Processing and Disorders (pp. 103-120). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Klingvall, E. (2013). Få and its passive complement. In Alexiadou, A. & Schäfer, F. (Eds.) Non-canonical passives (pp. 297-314). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Klingvall, E. (2012). How to approach complex passives. In Brandtler, J., Håkansson, D., Huber, S. & Klingvall, E. (Eds.) Discourse & Grammar. A Festschrift in Honor of Valéria Molnár (pp. 395-410). Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University.
Encyclopaedia entries (1)
Conference contributions (34)
- Klingvall, E. & Heinat, F. (2023). The ERPs of lexical retrieval and discourse integration.
- Klingvall, E. & Heinat, F. (2022). Grammatical structure and Discourse topics.
- Klingvall, E. & Heinat, F. (2022). Investigating discourse referent salience patterns of negative quantifying expressions.
- Klingvall, E. & Heinat, F. (2022). Quantifier reference in production.
- Klingvall, E. & Heinat, F. (2021). Relative set size modulates acceptability and processing.
- Klingvall, E. & Heinat, F. (2021). Set size and pronominal reference.
- Klingvall, E. & Heinat, F. (2020). Monotone decreasing quantifiers and polarity.
- Klingvall, E. & Heinat, F. (2019). Ambiguous anaphoric reference in Swedish.
- Klingvall, E. & Heinat, F. (2019). Negative quantifiers and ambiguous reference.
- Klingvall, E. & Heinat, F. (2019). Quantifying expressions and the processing of anaphoric reference.
- Klingvall, E. & Heinat, F. (2019). Set focus and reference : an ERP study.
- Klingvall, E. & Heinat, F. (2019). The effects of set size on reference resolution in discourse.
- Heinat, F. & Klingvall, E. (2018). Quantifiers and Discourse Referents in Swedish: an ERP Study.
- Heinat, F. & Klingvall, E. (2018). Reference to quantified expressions in Swedish : an ERP study.
- Klingvall, E. & Heinat, F. (2018). Anaphoric reference to quantifying expressions in Swedish.
- Klingvall, E. & Heinat, F. (2018). Referential mismatches - complement set reference.
- Heinat, F., Klingvall, E., Tutunjian, D. & Wiklund, A.-L. (2016). The status of relative clause extractions in Swedish: : data from an offline study.
- Klingvall, E., Tutunjian, D., Heinat, F. & Wiklund, A.-L. (2016). Relative clause extractions and plausibility in Swedish.
- Klingvall, E. (2015). Tough-constructions, reconstruction and agreement in Swedish.
- Klingvall, E., Heinat, F., Tutunjian, D. & Wiklund, A.-L. (2015). The island status of Swedish relative clauses : Evidence from processing.
- Tutunjian, D., Heinat, F., Klingvall, E. & Wiklund, A.-L. (2015). An Eye Tracking Study of Swedish Filler-Gap Dependencies : Processing Relative Clause Extractions.
- Tutunjian, D., Heinat, F., Klingvall, E. & Wiklund, A.-L. (2015). Processing long-distance filler-gap dependencies in Swedish.
- Klingvall, E. (2012). Reflexive let-constructions in Swedish.
- Heinat, F., Klingvall, E. & Manninen, S. (2011). Agreeing passives in Finnish.
- Heinat, F., Klingvall, E. & Manninen, S. (2011). How do things get done? On non-canonical passives in Finnish.
- Klingvall, E. (2011). Gå as a verbal tough-predicate.
- Klingvall, E. (2011). Non-canonical passives in Swedish.
- Klingvall, E. (2011). On the role of verbs and adjectives in property descriptions.
- Klingvall, E. (2010). Left-headed complex words.
- Klingvall, E. (2010). Left-headed complex words in Swedish.
- Klingvall, E. (2010). On the syntax of disposition ascriptions in Swedish.
- Klingvall, E. (2008). Agent arguments in generic contexts.
- Klingvall, E. (2008). Middles im Fokus.
- Klingvall, E. (2008). Tough-constructions and middles in Swedish.
Working papers (6)
- Klingvall, E. (2012). Topics in pseudo-passives. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax, 90.
- Klingvall, E. (2011). On non-copula Tough Constructions in Swedish. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax, 88. Lund University.
- Klingvall, E. (2011). On past participles and their external arguments. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax, 87. Lund University.
- Klingvall, E. (2006). On a possible candidate for Swedish middle. The Department of English in Lund: Working Papers in Linguistics, 6. The Department of English, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University.
- Klingvall, E. (2005). A secret agent in the middle?. The Department of English in Lund: Working Papers in Linguistics, 5. The Department of English, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University.
- Klingvall, E. (2003). Aspectual Properties of the English Middle Construction. The Department of English in Lund: Working Papers in Linguistics. Volume 3.
Reviews (2)
- Klingvall, E. (2021). Antonio Fábregas & Michael Putman: Passives and Middles in Mainland Scandinavian. Microvariation through Exponency. Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 44, 304-308. Cambridge University Press.
- Klingvall, E. (2013). Review of Sluicing: Crosslinguistic Perspectives. Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 36, 101-106. Cambridge University Press.
Teaching

Reader
- English Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail eva.klingvallenglund.luse
Room SOL:H332b
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20