Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
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Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen is a linguist and Professor of French Language and Linguistics at the University of Manchester, UK.[1][2]
Hansen studied at the University of Copenhagen, where she received an MA (Cand.mag.) in 1992, a PhD in 1996 (dissertation title: The Function of Discourse Particles: A Study with Special Reference to Spoken Standard French), and a higher doctorate in 2008 (Particles at the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface: Synchronic and Diachronic Issues).[1][3] On completion of her PhD she took up an assistant professorship at the same university, and was promoted to associate professor in 2000.
In 2007 she moved to the University of Manchester to take up her current position as Professor of French Language and Linguistics. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in 2013, and Member of the Academia Europaea in 2020.[1][2][4]
