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D-Index
40
Citations
13589
World Ranking
5190
National Ranking
65

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Östen Dahl is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and has contributed to several fields within the arts, humanities, social sciences, and psychology. Their research primarily focuses on language and linguistics, with work spanning subfields such as communication, experimental and cognitive psychology, and gender studies.

Their scholarly output covers a variety of topics including syntax, semantics, linguistic variation, morphology, and aspects of language use such as swearing, euphemism, and multilingualism. Additional areas of interest include language, metaphor, cognition, lexicography, and gender studies in language.

  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology
  • Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Lexicography and Language Studies
  • Gender Studies in Language

Östen Dahl has published in notable venues, predominantly the Annual Review of Linguistics, where one paper titled Perfects Across Languages appeared in 2021. This paper has received citations indicating engagement from the research community.

  • Annual Review of Linguistics

Their 2021 publication:

  • Perfects Across Languages, 2021, Annual Review of Linguistics

Throughout their career, Östen Dahl has been recognized by the academic community with awards such as membership in the Academia Europaea, granted in 2006.

Best Publications

  • Tense and aspect systems

    Östen Dahl

  • Typology of sentence negation

    Östen Dahl

  • The growth and maintenance of linguistic complexity

    Östen Dahl

  • Tense and aspect in the languages of Europe

    Östen Dahl

  • The Creation of Tense and Aspect Systems in the Languages of the World

    Joan L. Bybee;Östen Dahl

  • Logic in linguistics

    Jens S. Allwood;Lars-Gunnar Andersson;Östen Dahl

  • On the Definition of the Telic-Atelic (Bounded-Nonbounded) Distinction

    Östen Dahl

  • The grammar of future time reference in European languages

    Östen Dahl

  • Animacy in grammar and discourse

    Ö. Dahl;K. Fraurud

  • Animacy and the notion of semantic gender

    Östen Dahl

  • Current relevance and event reference

    Östen Dahl

  • The tense-aspect systems of European languages in a typological perspective

    Östen Dahl

  • Animacy and egophoricity: Grammar, ontology and phylogeny

    Östen Dahl

  • Kinship in grammar

    Östen Dahl;Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm

  • Temporal distance: remoteness distinctions in tense-aspect systems

    Östen Dahl

  • The progressive in Romance, as compared with English

    Östen Dahl

  • Explanations for Language Universals

    Brian Butterworth;Bernard Comrie;Östen Dahl

  • Egophoricity in discourse and syntax

    Östen Dahl

  • The Simple and Compound Past in Romance languages

    Östen Dahl

  • Perfects and iamitives: two gram types in one grammatical space

    Östen Dahl;Bernhard Wälchli

  • Grammaticalization in the North: Noun phrase morphosyntax in Scandinavian vernaculars

    Östen Dahl

  • Progressive markers in Germanic languages

    Östen Dahl

  • Logic in Linguistics

    Richmond W. Thomason;Jens Allwood;Lars-Gunnar Andersson;Osten Dahl

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian Butterworth
Brian Butterworth University College London
Bernard Comrie
Bernard Comrie University of California, Santa Barbara
Joan L. Bybee
Joan L. Bybee University of New Mexico

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