Östen Dahl

List of John Benjamins publications for which Östen Dahl plays a role.

Book series

Titles

Subjects Morphology | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Circum-Baltic Languages: Volume 1: Past and Present

Edited by Östen Dahl and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 54] 2001. xx, 382 pp.
Subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Typology

Circum-Baltic Languages: Volume 2: Grammar and Typology

Edited by Östen Dahl and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 55] 2001. xx, 423 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Typology

Circum-Baltic Languages: 2 Volumes (set)

Edited by Östen Dahl and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 54-55] 2001. xx, 382 pp. & xx, 423 pp.
Subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Typology

Articles

Dahl, Östen 2021 Chapter 2. “Universal” readings of perfects and iamitives in typological perspectiveThe Perfect Volume: Papers on the perfect, Eide, Kristin Melum and Marc Fryd (eds.), pp. 43–64 | Chapter
In Dahl & Wälchli (2016), we investigate the relationship between perfects and iamitives – i.e. items whose semantics combines features of perfects and words like already – using statistical techniques on data from a multilingual parallel corpus of Bible texts. This paper looks at the same… read more
Dahl, Östen 2020 Chapter 19. Indo-European perfects in typological perspectivePerfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond, Crellin, Robert and Thomas Jügel (eds.), pp. 635–668 | Chapter
This chapter looks at Indo-European perfects in the light of recent typological research on TAME (tense-aspect-mood-evidentiality), in particular the work done at the Department of Linguistics at Stockholm University with the help of massive parallel corpora. The chapter starts with a survey of… read more
Dahl, Östen 2015 The “Minor Language” PerspectiveMajor versus Minor? – Languages and Literatures in a Globalized World, D’haen, Theo, Iannis Goerlandt and Roger D. Sell (eds.), pp. 15–24 | Article
Dahl, Östen 2009 Increases in complexity as a result of language contactConvergence and Divergence in Language Contact Situations, Braunmüller, Kurt and Juliane House (eds.), pp. 41–52 | Article
The paper discusses the possibility of partially or entirely new linguistic patterns developing in a contact situation and how this influences the complexity of the language system, in particular the grammar. In earlier work, I have argued that such linguistic complexity often arises out of the… read more
Dahl, Östen 2009 Two pathways of grammatical evolutionSyntactic Complexity: Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution, Givón, T. and Masayoshi Shibatani (eds.), pp. 239–248 | Article
Givon has suggested three stages that characterize the diachronic rise of complex constructions: Parataxis, Syntaxis and Lexis. In this paper, it is argued that rather than having three distinct stages of grammatical evolution with a linear increase of tightness, we have to postulate different… read more
Dahl, Östen 2008 Grammatical resources and linguistic complexity: Sirionó as a language without NP coordinationLanguage Complexity: Typology, contact, change, Miestamo, Matti, Kaius Sinnemäki and Fred Karlsson (eds.), pp. 153–163 | Article
The paper discusses the relationship between cross-linguistic differences in grammatical resources and linguistic complexity. It is claimed that Sirionó (Tupí-Guaraní) lacks syntactic coordination as in English John and Mary are asleep. Instead, Sirionó employs a number of different strategies –… read more
Dahl, Östen 2008 The degenerative dative of Southern NorrbothnianCase and Grammatical Relations: Studies in honor of Bernard Comrie, Corbett, Greville G. and Michael Noonan (eds.), pp. 105–126 | Article
In some northern Swedish vernaculars, one can find some rather peculiar developments in the use of inflectional forms of nouns. Thus, in the vernaculars Pitemål and Rånemål, spoken in the province of Norrbotten, no less than three kinds of forms compete for the territory taken up by indefinite… read more
Dahl, Östen 2001 The origin of the Scandinavian languagesCircum-Baltic Languages: Volume 1: Past and Present, Dahl, Östen and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (eds.), pp. ccxv–ccxxxv | Chapter
Dahl, Östen 2001 Inflationary effects in language and elsewhereFrequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure, Bybee, Joan L. and Paul J. Hopper (eds.), pp. 471 ff. | Article
Dahl, Östen and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm 2001 The Circum-Baltic Languages: Introduction to the volumeCircum-Baltic Languages: Volume 2: Grammar and Typology, Dahl, Östen and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (eds.), pp. xv–xx | Miscellaneous
Dahl, Östen and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm 2001 The Circum-Baltic Languages: Introduction to the volumeCircum-Baltic Languages: Volume 1: Past and Present, Dahl, Östen and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (eds.), pp. xv–xx | Chapter
Dahl, Östen and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm 2001 11. Kinship in grammarDimensions of Possession, Baron, Irène, Michael Herslund and Finn Sørensen (eds.), pp. 201 ff. | Chapter
Dahl, Östen 2000 Egophoricity in discourse and syntaxFunctions of Language 7:1, pp. 37–77 | Article
Dahl, Östen 1997 The relation between past time reference and counterfactuality: a new lookOn Conditionals Again, Athanasiadou, Angeliki and René Dirven † (eds.), pp. 97 ff. | Article
Dahl, Östen 1997 Review of Klein (1994): Time in LanguageStudies in Language 21:2, pp. 417–428 | Review
Dahl, Östen and Kari Fraurud 1996 Animacy in Grammar and DiscourseReference and Referent Accessibility, Fretheim, Thorstein and Jeanette K. Gundel (eds.), pp. 47 ff. | Article
Bybee, Joan L. and Östen Dahl 1989 The Creation of Tense and Aspect Systems in the Languages of the WorldStudies in Language 13:1, pp. 51–103 | Article