!!Östen Dahl- Curriculum Vitae
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*Born in Stockholm, November 4, 1945
*Ph.D. in Slavic languages, Göteborg University, 1970
*Docent in General Linguistics, Göteborg University, 1970-80
*Professor in General Linguistics, Stockholm University, 1980-present
*Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1997-present
*Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, 1998-present
*Member, Academia Europaea, 2006-present
*Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa, Helsinki University, 2003
*Ann-Kersti and Carl-Hakon Swenson’s prize for research in the humanities and social sciences, 2007
*Chairman, Slavic Department, Göteborg University, 1976-77
*Chairman, Department of Linguistics, Göteborg University, 1977-80
*Chairman, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University, 1980-87
*Dean, ”Språkvetenskapliga sektionen”, Stockholm University, 1987-93
*Dean, Faculty of Humanities, Stockholm University, 1990-93
*Chairman of the Board, The Institute for Interpretation and Translation Studies, Stockholm,2002-present
*Visiting professor, Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Bielefeld,1975
*Visiting professor, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Wien, April-June 1978
*Visiting researcher, Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen, Netherlands, May-June 1985
*Visiting researcher, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig, Germany,July-August 2000
*Visiting researcher, Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University,Melbourne, Australia, October-November 2003
*Theme Group Coordinator, Theme Group 6, European Science Foundation Programme in Language Typology, 1990-94
*Member, Consulting Board of the International Pragmatics Association, 1994-1999
*Member, Executive Committee of the Association for Linguistic Typology, 2001-2005
*Member, Wissenschaftlicher Beirat, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, Germany
*Member of Editorial Board of the following journals/series:Journal of Semantics, Linguistics, Studies in Language Companion Series 
*Consulting Editor (or corresponding status) of the following journals: Linguistics and Philosophy,  Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Studies in Language, Zeitschrift für Kognitionswissenschaft (during earlier periods also Rivista di Linguistica)
*Section Editor, The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 1st edition (Pergamon Press, 1994), and 2nd edition (Elsevier 2006)
*Author/coauthor of Logic in Linguistics (CUP, 1977), Grammatik (Studentlitteratur, 1981),Tense and Aspect Systems (Blackwell, 1985), Språkets enhet och mångfald (Studentlitteratur, 2000), The Growth and Maintenance of Linguistic Complexity (Benjamins, 2004)
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