Organisation profile: Department of General and Applied Linguistics, University of Copenhagen

The Department of General and Applied Linguistics is part
of the Faculty of Letters. The department was founded in 1988 by an
amalgamation of the Institute of Linguistics, the Institute of
Phonetics, the Institute of Applied and Mathematical Linguistics, and
the Center for Audiologopedics. The amalgamation of these formerly
autonomous units has resulted in a department with a wide selection of
more or less intimately connected activities. Common to all is a close
association with general linguistic theory and methodology
(linguistics taken in its widest sense). It is thus considered
important that research on Danish and other languages contribute to
general theoretical and typological language descriptions, just as
general linguistic theory and methodology are being investigated as a
natural tool for analytical and descriptive linguistic research. Apart
from the more theoretical disciplines, the department also hosts a
number of applied ones.