She received her PhD in 1980 for her dissertation on the Syntax and Semantics of Questions in Swedish,[3] supervised by Barbara Partee.
[7] She is a member of the scientific board for CASTL (Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics) at the University of Tromsø, and she is involved in the Scandinavian Dialect Syntax Network.
Engdahl’s main research interests are in the area of syntax and semantics, in particular in the Scandinavian languages.
[9] She is involved in the ScanDiaSyn[10] network, which works on Scandinavian dialect syntax.
Despite her retirement, Engdahl continues to research and publish, focusing on syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and information structure.