Olga Kellert
List of John Benjamins publications for which Olga Kellert plays a role.
2024 Geographic variation of voseo and tuteo on X (Twitter) with a consideration of mixing cases ( vos puedes ) Revue Romane: Online-First Articles | Article
This article explores a new data source and a new method to analyze the spatial distribution of a well-known case of linguistic variation in Spanish, namely the use of personal pronouns in informal address also known as voseo and tuteo. The data source is the social media X, previously Twitter,… read more
2018 Additive and aspectual anche in Old Italian Romance 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
2016 Syntagme prépositionnel dans
les constructions de possession À 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
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