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]

• Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, member since 1997
• Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, member since 1998
• Academia Europaea, member since 2006
• Honorary doctorate of philosophy from the University of Helsinki in 2003
• Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, member^[2]

• 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)

• Jespersen's Cycle

• Staff profile at Stockholm University

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