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Alex Klinge

Head of department
Alex Klinge

Department of International Language Studies and Computational Linguistics

Dalgas Have 15, 2Ø.055
DK - 2000 Frederiksberg
Tel.: +45 3815 3158
Fax:+45 3815 3845
E-mail: ak.isv@cbs.dk



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Primary research areas

  • Morphology and syntax (with special interest in nominals)
  • Semantics (with special interest in modality)
  • Pragmatics (with special in utterance interpretation)


Administrative functions

Acting Head of Department for the Department of International Culture and Communication Studies


Selected publications

Klinge, A. 2005. Where there is a will, there is a modal. I: A. Klinge and H. Høeg-Müller (red) Modality. Studies in Form and Function. London & Oakville, Equinox: 169-186
Klinge, A. 2005. The Origin of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Investigating Traces of Lexical Formation Patterns in the (Linguistic) History of Europe. In: H. Nølke, I. Baron, I. Korzen and H. Høeg-Müller (eds.) Grammatica. Festschrift in Honour of Michael Herslund. Peter Lang Verlag
Klinge, A. 2002. Tense as a Determinant Category in English and Danish. I Per Durst-Andersen (ed.) Sprog og typer i kontrast. Forskelligartede danske bidrag til en forståelse af sproglig typologi. Copenhagen Business School: Copenhagen Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 3: 91-114
Klinge, A. 2000. Notes on the structure of the English determiner phrase in a comparative perspective. In: E. Engberg-Petersen and P. Harder (eds.) Ikonicitet og Struktur. Netværk for Funktionel Lingvistik, Department of English, University of Copenhagen: 149-176
Klinge, A. 2000. Towards a distributional typology of adverbials in legal language. Copenhagen Studies in Language, vol. 25: 73-120
Klinge, A. 1993. The English Modal Auxiliaries: from lexical semantics to utterance interpretation. Journal of LInguistics 29: 315-357.


Last updated by Karina Pedersen 08/09/2011