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mw. dr. H.G. (Hella) Olbertz


  • Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen
    Capaciteitsgroep Taalwetenschap
  • Spuistraat  210
    1012 VT  Amsterdam
    Kamernummer: 306
  • H.G.Olbertz@uva.nl

Research

My main research interest concerns the semantic and syntactic aspects of variation and change in Spanish and Portuguese, which I try to account for within the theoretical framework of Functional Discourse Grammar. Above all, I am interested in modality and verbal aspect as well as the grammaticalization of the expressions of these categories, with the emphasis on the differences between those two languageas and their European and American varieties. In addition, I am interested in the peculiarities of Ecuadorian Highland Spanish.

Academic year 2014-2015

For the period from August 2014 to July 2015 I have been invited as a visiting professor by the State University of São Paulo, at the Campus de São José do Rio Preto, where I will collaborate in research initiatives with my Brazilian colleagues using the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar; in addition I will teach introductory and advanced courses on this theory.

Bibliography

Until recently I worked as an editor of the Linguistic Bibliography / Bibliographie Linguistique , which covers linguistic publications from all disciplines and on all languages of the world with the emphasis on non-Indo-European languages and lesser known Indo-European languages.

Forthcoming publications

  • (accepted for publication) "Periphrastic expressions of non-epistemic modal necessity in Spanish: a semantic description". To be published in: Mar Garachana & Claus Pusch (eds): From composite predicates to verbal periphrases in Romance languages. [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, ISSN 2211-5412]. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
  • (submitted) "Lexical auxiliaries in Spanish: how and why?"
  • (submitted) (with Wim Honselaar) "The grammaticalization of Dutch moeten: modal and post-modal meanings"
  • (submitted) (with Pieter Muysken) "El español rural andino en el Ecuador: características generales".
  • (in preparation) (with Kees Hengeveld & Heiko Narrog) The grammaticalization of tense, aspect, and modality from a functional perspective, to be submitted to De Gruyter Mouton (Berlin).
  • (in preparation) (with Talita Storti Garcia & Beatriz Goaveia Garcia Parra) "El uso de aunque en el español peninsular - un análisis funcional" 

Selected publications before 2006

  • 2005   (with Pieter Muysken) (eds.) Encuentros y conflictos: bilingüismo y contacto de lenguas en el mundo andino . [Lengua y sociedad en el mundo hispánico 14]. Madrid / Frankfurt: Iberoamericana / Vervuert.
  • 2005   "Dizque en el español andino ecuatoriano: conservador e innovador", in: Olbertz & Muysken (eds.), 77-94.
  • 2003   " Venir + gerundio en el español andino ecuatoriano - un producto de contacto lingüístico", in: Claus Pusch & Andreas Wesch (eds.) Verbalperiphrasen in den (ibero-) romanischen Sprachen / Perífrasis verbals en les llengües (ibero-) romàniques / Perífrasis verbales en las lenguas (ibero-) románicas [Beihefte zu Romanistik in Geschichte und Gegenwart 9]. Hamburg: Buske. 89-103.
  • 2001   "El orden de los constituyentes en la combinación de perífrasis en español". Revista española de lingüística 31/2. 431-453.
  • 1998   Verbal Periphrases in a Functional Grammar of Spanish . [Functional Grammar Series 22]. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (revised version of dissertation).
  • 1998   (with Kees Hengeveld & Jesús Sánchez) (eds.) The Structure of the Lexicon in Functional Grammar. [Studies in Language Companion Series 43]. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
  • 1993   "The grammaticalization of Spanish haber plus participle", in: Jaap van Marle (ed.) Historical Linguistics 1991 . 243-263. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

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2006

  • H.G. Olbertz (2006). "Dizque" en el español de México. In E. Alba Valencia (Ed.), Actas XIV Congreso Internacional ALFAL. Santiago de Chile: s.n..

2013

  • H. Olbertz (2013). [Review of the book “Wird man von hustensaft wie so ne art bekifft?”: Approximationsmarker in den romanischen Sprachen]. Journal of Pragmatics, 55, 18-20.

Spreker

  • H.G. Olbertz (2013, February 2). El español rural andino del Ecuador: tres rasgos llamativos. Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Simposio internacional "Estudios transandinos".
  • H.G. Olbertz (2012, October 11). Mirativity as a grammatical category. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, (guest lecture).
  • H.G. Olbertz (2012, October 5). La modalidad: auxiliares españoles. Universidade Estadual Paulista, Campus de São José do Rio Preto, (guest lecture).
  • H.G. Olbertz (2012, April 26). "Pues" im ländlichen Andenspanisch von Ecuador. Trier, Ringvorlesung des America Romana Centrums.
  • H.G. Olbertz (2011, April 7). La gramaticalización de las perífrasis modales: 'tener que' + infinitivo. Universidade Estadual Paulista, São José do Rio Preto, Conferencia sobre los estudios descriptivos de la lengua española.

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