Swedish linguist
Östen Dahl (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈœ̌sːtɛn ˈdɑ̌ːl]; born 4 November 1945 in Stockholm) is a Swedish linguist and professor best known for pioneering a marker-based approach to tense and aspect in linguistic typology. Dahl finished his PhD at the University of Gothenburg and subsequently worked there as a docent before becoming professor of general linguistics at the University of Stockholm in 1980.[1]
Honours
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
References
External links
- Staff profile at Stockholm University