Östen Dahl
Biographic Data
| ID | 853898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Östen Dahl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Östen |
| FAMILY NAME | Dahl |
| SIGNATURE | DAHL Ö |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8914-7129 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 130 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Principles of areal typology
Perfects Across Languages
The theoretical study of perfects tends to be based on data from European languages, particularly English. To find the proper place for perfects, we have to go beyond English to be able to separate what is idiosyncratic from what is generalizable. A central function of perfects is to speak of how the present is different from the past, especially from the immediate past. A perfect typically relates how a past state changes into the present one. C…
Tense, Aspect, Mood and Evidentiality, Linguistics of
Explanations for Language Universals
Rich agreement, everything else being equal and large-scale cross-linguistic comparison
Let us look first at the central notion of “rich verb agreement”, supposed to provide the explanation for the differences between ISc and MSc. Holmberg never gives any clear criteria for what it means for a language to have “rich verb agreement”, but rather “illustrates” it by showing verb paradigms from Modern Icelandic and Standard Swedish. In those paradigms, i.e. the present and past indicative of weak verbs, Icelandic displays nine different…
The map and the terrain
Animacy and egophoricity: Grammar, ontology and phylogeny
The Growth and Maintenance of Linguistic Complexity
This book studies linguistic complexity and the processes by which it arises and is maintained, focusing not so much on what one can say in a language as how it is said. Complexity is not seen as synonymous with “difficulty” but as an objective property of a system – a measure of the amount of information needed to describe or reconstruct it. Grammatical complexity is the result of historical processes often subsumed under the rubric of grammatic…
Circum-Baltic Languages: Typology and Contact. Vol. 1: Past and Present
The Circum-Baltic Languages: Introduction to the volume
The Circum-Baltic Languages: Introduction to the volume
Circum-Baltic Languages: Volume 2: Grammar and Typology
The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European —Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The circum-Baltic area is an ideal place to study areal and contact phenomena in languages. The present set of two volumes look at the circum-Baltic languages from …
Circum-Baltic Languages: Volume 1: Past and Present
The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European — Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The circum-Baltic area is an ideal place to study areal and contact phenomena in languages. The present set of two volumes look at the circum-Baltic languages from…
Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe
This volume puts the European tense-aspect systems in a consistent typological and diachronic perspective. The book advances our understanding of the dynamics of tense and aspect systems, how they develop over time, and how this is reflected in the rich patterns of synchronic variation and their areal distribution
The grammar of future time reference in European languages
Introduction As the title suggests, this chapter is about the ways in which speakers of European languages talk about the future; more specifically, the grammatical devices that are used in doing so. At the centre of the investigation, we will necessarily find the things traditionally called future tenses. Since their theoretical status has been the object of considerable controversy, and since we want to be open for other potentially interesting…
Egophoricity in discourse ans syntax
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Does adaptation really help us to explain language change
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Deutsch - Typologisch
Das Deutsche ist vielfältig und gründlich unter kontrastiven Gesichtspunkten untersucht worden, aber es war von germanistischer Seite her bislang kaum Gegenstand typologischer Betrachtung. Daher versucht das Jahrbuch 1995 unter dem Thema "Deutsch – typologisch" eine neue Sicht auf die Grammatik des Deutschen insgesamt zu ermitteln und in repräsentativen Ausschnitten von Syntax, Morphologie, Lexikon über Negation und Pronomina bis zu Phonologie un…
Das Tempussystem des Deutschen im typologischen Vergleich
Als grundlegende Analyseeinheit für das typologische Studium von Tempus- und Aspektsystemen wird das ‘Gramm’ eingeführt - eine Kategorie, unter die zum Beispiel 'Progressiv’ oder ’Perfektiv’ fallen. Im typologischen Vergleich spielen übereinzelsprachliche Grammtypen eine Rolle. Bezüglich der Verteilung von Grammtypen lassen sich in den europäischen Sprachen bestimmte areale Tendenzen feststellen. Das deutsche Tempus- und Aspektsystem kann als rel…
As Time Goes by: Tense and Universal Grammar
How do humans acquire, at a very early age and from fragmentary and haphazard data, the complex patterns of their native language? This is the logical problem of language acquisition, and it is the question that directs the search for an innate universal grammar. As Time Goes By extends the search by proposing a theory of natural-language tense that will be responsive to the language-acquisition problem. The core of the theory is a revision of Ha…
Nominalreferenz und Zeitkonstitution: Zur Semantik von Massentermen, Pluraltermen und Aspektklassen
Evidentiality: The linguistic coding of epistemology (advances in discourse processes, 20)
The Creation of Tense and Aspect Systems in the Languages of the World
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The Role of Deduction Rules in Semantics
The distinction between ‘partial’ and ‘total’ interpretations (models) is discussed and related to the distinction between proof-theoretical and model-theoretical treatments of logic. It is claimed that there is a parallel between the construction of a proof based on a set of premises and e.g. the production of a natural-language text which is based on information in some kind of data-base. The main part of the paper is devoted to a discussion of…
Some Comments on “The Society of Mind”
SOME COMMENTS ON “THE SOCIETY OF MIND” Get access Östen Dahl Östen Dahl Dept. of Linguistics, University of StockholmS–10691 Stockholm, Sweden Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Semantics, Volume 5, Issue 2, 1986, Pages 181–183, https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/5.2.181 Published: 01 April 1986
Typology of sentence negation
Animacy and egophoricity: Grammar, ontology and phylogeny
Explanations for Language Universals
Evidentiality: The linguistic coding of epistemology (advances in discourse processes, 20)
Some Notes on Indefinites
The use of the Russian indefinites in -to and -nibud’ is analysed from the viewpoint of generative semantics. It is argued that the choice between the two suffixes is determined by the underlying structure of the sentence, where the ordering of quantifiers is of primary importance. The relative positions of quantifiers is also shown to be relevant for the semantic difference between the English pronouns any and every
Grammar and meaning. Papers on syntactic and semantic topics
Temporal distance: Remoteness Distinctions in Tense-Aspect Systems
As Time Goes by: Tense and Universal Grammar
How do humans acquire, at a very early age and from fragmentary and haphazard data, the complex patterns of their native language? This is the logical problem of language acquisition, and it is the question that directs the search for an innate universal grammar. As Time Goes By extends the search by proposing a theory of natural-language tense that will be responsive to the language-acquisition problem. The core of the theory is a revision of Ha…
Remarques sur le Générique
Dahl Ô. Remarques sur le Générique. In: Langages, 20e année, n°79, 1985. Générique et généricité, sous la direction de Michel Galmiche et Georges Kleiber. pp. 55-60
Slavic Transformational Syntax
Some Notes on Indefinites
The use of the Russian indefinites in -to and -nibud’ is analysed from the viewpoint of generative semantics. It is argued that the choice between the two suffixes is determined by the underlying structure of the sentence, where the ordering of quantifiers is of primary importance. The relative positions of quantifiers is also shown to be relevant for the semantic difference between the English pronouns any and every
The Nordic Languages and Modern Linguistics: Proceedings of the International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, July 6-11, 1969
Transformations and their use in the resolution of syntactic homomorphy. Prepositional in contemporary standard Russian
Stratificational grammar: A definition and an example
Grammar and meaning. Papers on syntactic and semantic topics
Slavic Transformational Syntax
Semantics
Typology of sentence negation
Some arguments for higher nodes in syntax: A reply to Hudson’s ‘Constituency and dependency’
The Contract Game
Foundations of linguistics By Dieter Wunderlich (review)
444LANGUAGE, VOLUME 58, NUMBER 2 (1982) Foundations of linguistics. By Dieter Wunderlich. Translated from the German by Roger Lass. (Cambridge studies in linguistics, 22.) Cambridge: University Press, 1979. Pp. xvi, 360. Cloth $49.50, paper $13.95. [Original version published by Ronwohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1974.] Reviewed by Jens Allwood, University of Göteborg, and Osten Dahl, University of Stockholm In this English version of Wunderlich's bo…
Foundations of Linguistics
Logic in Linguistics
Temporal distance: Remoteness Distinctions in Tense-Aspect Systems
Remarques sur le Générique
Dahl Ô. Remarques sur le Générique. In: Langages, 20e année, n°79, 1985. Générique et généricité, sous la direction de Michel Galmiche et Georges Kleiber. pp. 55-60
Some Comments on “The Society of Mind”
SOME COMMENTS ON “THE SOCIETY OF MIND” Get access Östen Dahl Östen Dahl Dept. of Linguistics, University of StockholmS–10691 Stockholm, Sweden Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Semantics, Volume 5, Issue 2, 1986, Pages 181–183, https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/5.2.181 Published: 01 April 1986
The Role of Deduction Rules in Semantics
The distinction between ‘partial’ and ‘total’ interpretations (models) is discussed and related to the distinction between proof-theoretical and model-theoretical treatments of logic. It is claimed that there is a parallel between the construction of a proof based on a set of premises and e.g. the production of a natural-language text which is based on information in some kind of data-base. The main part of the paper is devoted to a discussion of…
The Creation of Tense and Aspect Systems in the Languages of the World
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Evidentiality: The linguistic coding of epistemology (advances in discourse processes, 20)
Nominalreferenz und Zeitkonstitution: Zur Semantik von Massentermen, Pluraltermen und Aspektklassen
As Time Goes by: Tense and Universal Grammar
How do humans acquire, at a very early age and from fragmentary and haphazard data, the complex patterns of their native language? This is the logical problem of language acquisition, and it is the question that directs the search for an innate universal grammar. As Time Goes By extends the search by proposing a theory of natural-language tense that will be responsive to the language-acquisition problem. The core of the theory is a revision of Ha…
Deutsch - Typologisch
Das Deutsche ist vielfältig und gründlich unter kontrastiven Gesichtspunkten untersucht worden, aber es war von germanistischer Seite her bislang kaum Gegenstand typologischer Betrachtung. Daher versucht das Jahrbuch 1995 unter dem Thema "Deutsch – typologisch" eine neue Sicht auf die Grammatik des Deutschen insgesamt zu ermitteln und in repräsentativen Ausschnitten von Syntax, Morphologie, Lexikon über Negation und Pronomina bis zu Phonologie un…
Das Tempussystem des Deutschen im typologischen Vergleich
Als grundlegende Analyseeinheit für das typologische Studium von Tempus- und Aspektsystemen wird das ‘Gramm’ eingeführt - eine Kategorie, unter die zum Beispiel 'Progressiv’ oder ’Perfektiv’ fallen. Im typologischen Vergleich spielen übereinzelsprachliche Grammtypen eine Rolle. Bezüglich der Verteilung von Grammtypen lassen sich in den europäischen Sprachen bestimmte areale Tendenzen feststellen. Das deutsche Tempus- und Aspektsystem kann als rel…
Does adaptation really help us to explain language change
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe
This volume puts the European tense-aspect systems in a consistent typological and diachronic perspective. The book advances our understanding of the dynamics of tense and aspect systems, how they develop over time, and how this is reflected in the rich patterns of synchronic variation and their areal distribution
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