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dr. H.G. (Hella) Olbertz

Faculty of Humanities
Capaciteitsgroep Taalwetenschap
Photographer: Eduard Lampe
Visiting address
  • Spuistraat 210
Postal address
  • Postbus 1642
    1000 BP Amsterdam
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  • Profile

    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 languages and their European and American varieties.

    Functional Discourse Grammar

    I am a visiting scholar at the Spanish Department of the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

    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.

    Forthcoming publications

    • (accepted) A perda do sujeito nulo no português do Brasil: uma abordagem discursivo-funcional.
    • (accepted) Funciones pragmáticas en el portugués brasileño: un enfoque discursivo-funcional.
  • Publications

    2019

    • Fischer, O. C. M., & Olbertz, H. G. (2019). The role played by analogy in processes of language change: The case of English have-to compared to Spanish tener-que. In N. Yáñez-Bouza, E. Moore, L. van Bergen, & W. B. Hollmann (Eds.), Categories, constructions, and change in English syntax (pp. 253-282). (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108303576.012

    2018

    • Hengeveld, K. (Guest ed.), & Olbertz, H. (Guest ed.) (2018). Topical issue on Systems of tense, aspect, modality, evidentiality and polarity in Functional Discourse Grammar. Open Linguistics, 4(1), 323-417, 478-508, 589-629, 657-706, 743-761.
    • Hengeveld, K., & Olbertz, H. (2018). Systems of TMA and Related Categories in Functional Discourse Grammar: A Brief Overview. Open Linguistics, 4(1), 323-327. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2018-0017 [details]
    • Keizer, E., & Olbertz, H. (2018). Functional Discourse Grammar: A brief outline. In E. Keizer, & H. Olbertz (Eds.), Recent Developments in Functional Discourse Grammar (pp. 1-15). (Studies in Language Companion Series; Vol. 205). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.205.01kei [details]
    • Keizer, E., & Olbertz, H. (Eds.) (2018). Recent developments in Functional Discourse Grammar. (Studies in Language Companion Series; Vol. 205). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.205 [details]
    • Olbertz, H. (2018). The Perfect in (Brazilian) Portuguese: A Functional Discourse Grammar View. Open Linguistics, 4(1), 478-508. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2018-0024 [details]
    • Olbertz, H., & Mattos Dall'Aglio Hattnher, M. (2018). On objective and subjective modality again: Evidence from Portuguese and Spanish modal auxiliaries. In E. Keizer, & H. Olbertz (Eds.), Recent Developments in Functional Discourse Grammar (pp. 132-168). (Studies in Language Companion Series; Vol. 205). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.205.05olb [details]

    2017

    • Hengeveld, K., Narrog, H., & Olbertz, H. (2017). A functional perspective on the grammaticalization of tense, aspect, modality, and evidentiality. In K. Hengeveld, H. Narrog, & H. Olbertz (Eds.), The grammaticalization of tense, aspect, and modality: A functional perspective (pp. 1-12). (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs; Vol. 311). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110519389-001 [details]
    • Olbertz, H., & Honselaar, W. (2017). The grammaticalization of Dutch moeten: Modal and post-modal meanings. In K. Hengeveld, H. Narrog, & H. Olbertz (Eds.), The Grammaticalization of Tense, Aspect, Modality and Evidentiality: A Functional Perspective (pp. 273-300). (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs; Vol. 311). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110519389-011 [details]

    2016

    2013

    • Mackenzie, J. L., & Olbertz, H. (2013). Introduction. In J. L. Mackenzie, & H. Olbertz (Eds.), Casebook in functional discourse grammar (pp. 1-14). (Studies in language companion series; No. 137). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.137 [details]
    • Olbertz, H., & Gasparini Bastos, S. (2013). Objective and subjective deontic modality in FDG: evidence from Spanish auxiliary expressions. In J. L. Mackenzie, & H. Olbertz (Eds.), Casebook in functional discourse grammar (pp. 277-300). (Studies in language companion series; No. 137). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.137 [details]

    2012

    2009

    • Olbertz, H. (2009). Mirativity and exclamatives in functional discourse grammar: evidence from Spanish. Web Papers in Functional Discourse Grammar, 82, 66-82. [details]

    2008

    2007

    • Olbertz, H. (2007). 'Dizque' in Mexican Spanish: the subjectification of reportative meaning. Rivista di Linguistica, 19(1), 151-172. [details]
    • Olbertz, H. G. (2007). ¿Perífrasis verbales con función de marcador de discurso? A propósito del Diccionario de perífrasis verbales. Verba. Anuario galego de filoloxía, 34, 381-390. [details]

    2018

    • Olbertz, H. (2018). The diachrony of tener que and other possession-based modal periphrases in Spanish. In N. Rocha, A. Rodrigues, & S. Cavalari (Eds.), Novas práticas em pesquisa sobre a linguagem: rompendo fronteiras (pp. 13-36). (Trilhas Linguísticas; No. 30). Araraquara : Laboratorio Editorial. [details]

    2017

    • Hengeveld, K., Narrog, H., & Olbertz, H. (Eds.) (2017). The grammaticalization of tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality: A functional perspective. (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs; Vol. 311). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110519389 [details]
    • Olbertz, H. (2017). Periphrastic expressions of non-epistemic modal necessity in Spanish: A semantic description. Web Papers in Functional Discourse Grammar, 90. [details]

    2016

    • Honselaar, W., & Olbertz, H. (2016). The use of Dutch MOETEN without an infinitive: A case of degrammaticalization? In A. Bannink, & W. Honselaar (Eds.), From variation to iconicity: festschrift for Olga Fischer on the occasion of her 65th birthday (pp. 185-201). Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Pegasus. [details]
    • Olbertz, H. G. (Accepted/In press). Periphrastic expressions of non-epistemic modal necessity in Spanish – a semantic description. In M. Garachana, S. Montserrat, & C. Pusch (Eds.), From composite predicates to verbal periphrases in Romance languages (IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

    2013

    • Mackenzie, J. L., & Olbertz, H. (2013). Casebook in functional discourse grammar. (Studies in language companion series; No. 137). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.137 [details]
    • Olbertz, H. (2013). "Pues" en el español rural de la sierra ecuatoriana: ¿interferencia del quichua? In C. Felbeck, A. Klump, & J. Kramer (Eds.), America Romana: Perspektiven transarealer Vernetzungen (pp. 179-204). (America Romana; No. 5). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. [details]

    2012

    • Olbertz, H. (2012). Siever, Holger, "Die spanischen Verbalperiphrasen", RomGG 17/1, 2011, 71-98: [Besprechung]. Romanistik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 18(1), 134-138. [details]

    2008

    • Olbertz, H. (2008). Spanish expressions of direct evidentiality and affirmative validation? Searching for a linguistic reflex of Quechua -mi in rural Ecuadorian Highland Spanish. In C. Vergaro (Ed.), Dynamics of language contact in the twenty-first century (pp. 111-131). (Conversarii. Studi linguistici del CLA. Sezione ricerca; No. 2). Perugia: Guerra. [details]

    2006

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

    2017

    • Olbertz, H. (2017). [Review of: E. Núñez Méndez (2016) Diachronic Applications in Hispanic Linguistics]. LINGUIST LIST, 28(2895). [details]

    2013

    Talk / presentation

    • Olbertz, H. (keynote speaker) (23-11-2018). El sistema pronominal del portugués brasileño y sus efectos pragmáticos - una comparación con el español europeo, Corpus e construcións, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
    • Olbertz, H. (invited speaker) (10-3-2017). O sujeito nulo nas línguas românicas: uma abordagem discursivo-funcional, ABRALIN, Niterói, Brazil.
    • Olbertz, H. G. (invited speaker) (31-5-2016). Modalidade: "dever" no português em comparação com "dever" no espanhol e "must" no inglês, Minicourse, Universidade Federal Fluminense.
    • Olbertz, H. G. (invited speaker) (25-6-2015). Concessivas e concessivo-condicionais em português - Concessives and conditional concessives in Portuguese, Minicourse, Universidade Fluminense, Niterói (Rio de Janeiro).
    • Olbertz, H. G. (invited speaker) (11-9-2014). A modalidade na GDF: verbos auxiliares espanhóis, VI Seminário de Estudos Linguísticos (SELIN), State University of São Paulo (UNESP), Campus of Araraquara.
    • Olbertz, H. G. (invited speaker) (2-2-2013). El español rural andino del Ecuador: tres rasgos llamativos, Simposio internacional "Estudios transandinos", Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
    • Olbertz, H. G. (invited speaker) (11-10-2012). Mirativity as a grammatical category, (guest lecture), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
    • Olbertz, H. G. (invited speaker) (5-10-2012). La modalidad: auxiliares españoles, (guest lecture), Universidade Estadual Paulista, Campus de São José do Rio Preto.
    • Olbertz, H. G. (invited speaker) (26-4-2012). "Pues" im ländlichen Andenspanisch von Ecuador, Ringvorlesung des America Romana Centrums, Trier.
    • Olbertz, H. G. (invited speaker) (7-4-2011). La gramaticalización de las perífrasis modales: 'tener que' + infinitivo, Conferencia sobre los estudios descriptivos de la lengua española, Universidade Estadual Paulista, São José do Rio Preto.
    • Olbertz, H. G. (invited speaker) (7-10-2009). Investigaciones en curso: construcciones de gerundio y evidencialidad en el español andino ecuatoriano, Workshop: El español de los Andes, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.
    • Olbertz, H. G. (invited speaker) (4-10-2009). Las perífrasis del tipo 'llegar a' + infinitivo, VII Congreso Internacional de Lingüistica Hispánica, Universität Leipzig.
    • Olbertz, H. G. (invited speaker) (19-12-2006). 'Ir y venir' con gerundio en el espanõl andino ecuatoriano- degramaticalización debido al contacto?, Sobre Tiempo y Aspecto. II Seminario de investigación (invited), Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real.

    Others

    • Olbertz, H. (organiser), Hattnher, M. M. D. (organiser) & Oliveira, J. (organiser) (26-7-2018 - 28-7-2018). Fifth International Conference on Functional Discourse Grammar, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Hengeveld, K. (organiser) & Olbertz, H. G. (organiser) (24-7-2017 - 28-7-2017). Una aproximación tipológica a las lenguas de América Latina, Bogotá, Colombia. Workshop that forms part of the XVIII Congreso Internacional ALFAL 2017 (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Olbertz, H. G. (organiser) & Hengeveld, K. (organiser) (26-6-2017 - 27-6-2100). Expressions of tense, aspect, mood, evidentiality and polarity, Amsterdam, Netherlands. International Workshop on Functional Discourse Grammar (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Olbertz, H. G. (organiser) (18-10-2013 - 19-10-2013). Workshop on the Grammaticalization of Tense, Aspect, Mood and Modality, University of Amsterdam. Workshop on the Grammaticalization of Tense, Aspect, Mood and ModalityGrammaticalization is a unidirectional process in which lexical items acquire (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
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