Östen Dahl (; born 4 November 1945 in
Stockholm
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) is a
Swedish linguist and professor best known for pioneering a marker-based approach to
tense and
aspect in
linguistic typology
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. Dahl finished his PhD at the
University of Gothenburg
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and subsequently worked there as a docent before becoming professor of general
linguistics
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at the
Stockholm University
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in 1980.
Honours
*
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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, member since 1997
*
Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, member since 1998
*
Academia Europaea
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, member since 2006
* Honorary doctorate of philosophy from the
University of Helsinki
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in 2003
*
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, member
Works
*
Tense and Aspect Systems', Oxford: Blackwell, 1985
* Edited with
Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm: ''The
Circum-Baltic Languages: Grammar and typology'', Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2001
* Grammaticalization in the North: Noun phrase morphosyntax in Scandinavian vernaculars. Berlin: Language Science Press 2015. http://langsci-press.org/catalog/view/73/17/290-1 (Open Access)
See also
*
Jespersen's Cycle
References
External links
Staff profile at Stockholm University
1945 births
Living people
Linguists from Sweden
Academic staff of the University of Gothenburg
University of Gothenburg alumni
Academic staff of Stockholm University
Scientists from Stockholm
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
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