Hella Olbertz

List of John Benjamins publications for which Hella Olbertz plays a role.

Titles

Recent Developments in Functional Discourse Grammar

Edited by Evelien Keizer and Hella Olbertz

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 205] 2018. ix, 283 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics

Casebook in Functional Discourse Grammar

Edited by J. Lachlan Mackenzie and Hella Olbertz

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 137] 2013. ix, 313 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

The Structure of the Lexicon in Functional Grammar

Edited by Hella Olbertz, Kees Hengeveld and Jesús Sánchez García

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 43] 1998. xii, 312 pp.
Subjects Functional linguistics | Semantics
Keizer, Evelien and Hella Olbertz 2018 Functional Discourse Grammar: A brief outlineRecent Developments in Functional Discourse Grammar, Keizer, Evelien and Hella Olbertz (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Chapter
Olbertz, Hella and Marize Mattos Dall'Aglio Hattnher 2018 On objective and subjective epistemic modality again: Evidence from Portuguese and Spanish modal auxiliariesRecent Developments in Functional Discourse Grammar, Keizer, Evelien and Hella Olbertz (eds.), pp. 131–168 | Chapter
This aim of this chapter is to prove the linguistic reality of the distinction between objective and subjective epistemic modality as made in FDG, according to which the former modifies the Episode and the latter the Propositional Content. The chapter studies the two basic Spanish modal auxiliaries… read more
Mackenzie, J. Lachlan and Hella Olbertz 2013 IntroductionCasebook in Functional Discourse Grammar, Mackenzie, J. Lachlan and Hella Olbertz (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
Olbertz, Hella and Sandra Gasparini Bastos 2013 Objective and subjective deontic modal necessity in FDG – evidence from Spanish auxiliary expressionsCasebook in Functional Discourse Grammar, Mackenzie, J. Lachlan and Hella Olbertz (eds.), pp. 277–300 | Article
The theory of FDG claims that deontic modality can be either participant-oriented or event-oriented, both distinctions forming part of the Representational Level. However, there is evidence from Spanish and a number of other languages that event-oriented deontic modality can be coded twice, with… read more
The benefactive construction dar + gerund is used in the North Andean region only and is unknown elsewhere in the Spanish-speaking world. Based on the analysis of spontaneous data from Ecuadorian Highland Spanish, this paper provides a linguististic description of dar + gerund and of the social and… read more