Jan-Ola Östman
2018–2020
Senior Professor at Dalarna University [Högskolan Dalarna], Sweden
ISTUD Humanities and Media; 10%
Professor emeritus of Scandinavian languages, University of Helsinki
2016–2021
e-mail:
janola.ostman[e-mail_at]gmail.com
ORCID 0000-0002-2658-9314
Jan-Ola Östman elsewhere on the net
A selection of links to video recordings of some of my presentations are found here
Informal academic presentations in Swedish, English, and Finnish on the occasion of the 375th jubilee celebration of the University of Helsinki: the Faculty of Arts' Humanist of the Day on September 13, 2015
University of Helsinki website
Published December 2019/February 2020
Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren, Handbook of Pragmatics, vol. 22: 2019 Installment. [e-Book and Hardbound] Amsterdam: John Benjamins. See also the Handbook of Pragmtics Online.
Published December 2019
Other recent publications – a selection
Jan-Ola Östman, 2018. Constructions as cross-linguistic generalisations over instances: Passive patterns in contact. In Constructions in contact. Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages (181–210), ed. by Hans C. Boas & Stefen Höder. Amsterdam & Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Jan-Ola Östman, 2018. Parallellspråkande i praktiken – ett dynamiskt flätande med många trådar ['Parallell languaging in practice. A dynamic braiding with many threads']. In Dansk til det 21. århundrede – sprog og samfund ['Danish for the 21st century - language and society'] (329–34jristensen Tanya K. Christensen, Christina Fogtmann, Torben Juel Jensen, Martha Sif Karrebæk, Mari Maegaard, Nicolai Pharao & Pia Quist. Copenhagen: U Press.
Frans Gregersen m.fl. [=Olle Josephson, Leena Huss, Anne Holmen, Gjert Kristoffersen, Marita Kristiansen, Jan-Ola Östman, Monica Londen, Zakaris Hansen, Hjalmar Petersen, Arnaq Grove, Eva Thomassen & Haraldur Bernharðsson], 2018. More parallel, please! Best practice of parallel language use at Nordic Universities: 11 recommendations. [TemaNord 2018:523] Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers.
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Recent volumes in the book series Constructional Approaches to Language (CAL), eds. Jan-Ola Östman & Kyoko Ohara. Amsterdam: John Benjamins:
CAL 28
Frame-Constructional Verb Classes: Change and Theft verbs in English and German
Ryan Dux
2020. viii, 318 pp.
CAL 27
Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar
Edited by Lotte Sommerer and Elena Smirnova
2020. vi, 351 pp.
CAL 26
English Resultatives: A force-recipient account
Seizi Iwata
2020. xx, 549 pp.
For the full list of volumes in the series, see CAL's home page at Benjamins.
Catharina Nyström Höög & Jan-Ola Östman, 2019.
Vetenskaplig publicering på svenska – ett måste, och vårt ansvar ['Scientific publishing in Swedish – a must, and our responsibility'] Språkbruk 4/2019: 42–46.
© Jan-Ola Östman 2020