Karin Aijmer

Karin Aijmer (born 15 January 1939) is a Swedish linguist whose research focuses on topics in pragmatics and discourse, including ways of expressing epistemic modality/evidentiality, pragmatic markers, conversational routines and other fixed phrases. She uses corpus-based methods involving both monolingual and multilingual corpora of English and Swedish for data. She received her PhD in English Linguistics from Stockholm University in 1972. She has been an associate professor in the Department of English at Oslo University and at Lund University and is now professor emerita in the Department of Languages and Literatures at the University of Gothenburg.

She serves on the Scientific Committee of ICAME. She is a member of the Cambridge Grammar reference panel. From 2004 to 2013 she served as president of the Swedish Society for the Study of English (SWESSE). She is the editor of the ''Nordic Journal of English Studies'' and co-editor of ''Contrastive Pragmatics - A Cross-Disciplinary Journal''. Provided by Wikipedia