Olga Kellert

List of John Benjamins publications for which Olga Kellert plays a role.

Articles

Franco, Irene, Olga Kellert, Guido Mensching and Cecilia Poletto 2018 Additive and aspectual anche in Old ItalianRomance Languages and Linguistic Theory 13: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 29, Nijmegen, Berns, Janine, Haike Jacobs and Dominique Nouveau (eds.), pp. 127–142 | Chapter
In Modern Italian (MI), negative additives (e.g. neanche ‘neither/not even’) contain a negative morpheme ne - and obey negative concord (NC) with sentential negation. In Old Italian (OI), negative additives such as neanche are not attested. Instead, a non-negative additive, anche, combines with a… read more
Kellert, Olga 2016 Syntagme prépositionnel dans les constructions de possessionÀ la recherche de la prédication: Autour des syntagmes prépositionnels, Marque-Pucheu, Christiane, Fryni Kakoyianni-Doa, Peter A. Machonis et Harald Ulland (dir.), pp. 53–72 | Article
Dans cet article nous allons analyser la construction infinitive c’est à x de faire y. Nous dédions notre intérêt à la fonction du syntagme prépositionel à x dans cette construction. Nous montrerons que cette construction exprime la possession ‘x a une tâche’ et la modalité déontique ‘x doit faire… read more
Kellert, Olga 2013 Peak alignment and surprise reading: Is there any systematic correlation in Italian (Spoken in Florence)?Prosody and Iconicity, Hancil, Sylvie and Daniel Hirst (eds.), pp. 61–74 | Article
This paper addresses the question of whether the expression of surprise or unexpectedness in spoken Italian (specifically the variety spoken in Florence) correlates with a late F0 peak alignment with the segmental string in prenuclear position, as has already been attested for some languages Kohler… read more