Jan-Ola Östman
Supervising dissertations at
University of Helsinki (Scandinavian languages; English; General
linguistics)
Uppsala University (Scandinavian languages; Linguistics)
University of Eastern Finland (Theology)
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
2022:
Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren,
Handbook of Pragmatics, vol. 24: 2022 Installment.
[e-Book and Hardbound] Amsterdam:
John Benjamins. See also the
Handbook of Pragmatics Online.
Published Online January 2020:
[Pedro Gras, Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren, eds.] 2020. Form and Meaning in Language, Volume II: Fillmore on Discourse and Pragmatics. [CSLI Lecture Notes No. 227] Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI).
[Pedro Gras, Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren, eds.] 2020. Form and Meaning in Language, Volume III: Fillmore on Linguistic Theory and Constructions. [CSLI Lecture Notes No. 228] Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI).
Other recent publications
Jan-Ola Östman, 2021. Constructions as
discourse-restrained flexible prototypes.
Belgian Journal of Linguistics 34 (2020):
273–282.
https://doi.org/10.1075/bjl00052.ost
Jan-Ola Östman & Leila Mattfolk, 2021. Introducing the Name-Phrase
Construction. In Språkets Funktion [Festschrift for Urpo Nikanne]
(244–264), ed. by Leena Maria Heikkola, Geda Paulsen, Katarzyna
Wojciechowicz and Jutta Rosenberg. Åbo Akademi University Press.
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.
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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 33
Discourse Structuring Markers in English: A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics
by Elizabeth Closs Traugott
2022. xviii, 274 pp.
CAL 32
Modality and Diachronic Construction Grammar
Edited by Martin Hilpert, Bert Cappelle and Ilse Depraetere
2021. v, 251 pp.
CAL 31
Cognitive Aphasiology – A Usage-Based Approach to Language in Aphasia
by Rachel Hatchard
2021. xx, 311 pp.
CAL 30
Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder
2021. vii, 428 pp.
CAL 29
Give Constructions across Languages
Edited by Myriam Bouveret
2021. viii, 246 pp.
CAL 28
Frame-Constructional Verb Classes: Change and Theft verbs in English and German
by 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
by Seizi Iwata
2020. xx, 549 pp.
For the full list of volumes in the series, see CAL's home page at Benjamins.
Lena Ekberg & Jan-Ola Östman, 2020. Identity construction and dialect acquisition among immigrants in rural areas – the case of Swedish-language Finland. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. doi: 10.1080/01434632.2020.1722681
