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.
[3] From 2004 to 2013 she served as president of the Swedish Society for the Study of English (SWESSE).
[7] Along with Bengt Altenberg, she received a research fellowship associated with the program ‘English in a contrastive perspective,’ at Lund University from 1993 to 1996.
She received research fellowships at the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts in Brussels in the fall of 2001 and 2002.