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Dr. Sarah Schwellenbach-Siwonia

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1. Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies / Fields of Study / Departments / literary studies, romance studies and latin / Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen und Lehrbeauftragte

Linguistik der romanischen Sprachen; Diachrone
Korpuslinguistik; Grammatikalisierung; Tempus,
Modus und Aspekt; Pragmatik; Semantik

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sarah.schwellenbach-siwonia@uni-bielefeld.de

Phone

+49 521 106-3517

Phone No. of Secretary

+49 521 106-6928 − Secretary's Details

Office

UHG C6-150 − Locations Map

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oder alternative Emailadresse:
sarah.schwellenbach@uni-bielefeld.de

SoSe 2024 - vorlesungsfreie Zeit
Sprechstunde: nach Vereinbarung per E-Mail.

WS 2024/25 - Vorlesungszeit
Sprechstunde: Di., 16-17 Uhr.

Die Sprechstunde kann entweder im Büro (C6-150)
oder via Zoom stattfinden.

Postfach 429 (Lichthof C6/D6)

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Curriculum Vitae

since 03 May 2024:
Research assistant (PostDoc) in the research group Linguistics of Romance Languages (Chair: Prof Dr Barbara Job)

Current research topics

Pragmatics and semantics (Neo-Gricean pragmatics; interaction; pragmatics/semantics interface; formal and empirical approaches)
Philosophy of language
Language change (grammaticalisation; conventionalisation of conversational implicatures; TAM auxiliarisation)
Comparative Romance linguistics
Tense, mood and aspect
Avertive and proximative
Prominence/salience
Corpus linguistics (synchronic and diachronic corpora): Catalan, French, Galician, Italian, Occitan, (Brazilian and European) Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romance, Romanian, Sardinian, Spanish

New book under contract

Schwellenbach, Sarah, under contract. Avertive and Proximative: A Corpus-Based Synchronic and Diachronic Study of Romance Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Recent publications

Schwellenbach, Sarah, 2022. A prominence-based account of the pragmatics of tenses and the underspecification of the Romance imperfect. Journal of Pragmatics 198, 11-28 (Open Access) [This article won the Jacob L. Mey and Hartmut Haberland Early Career Award]

Schwellenbach, Sarah, 2019. Avertive and Proximative: A corpus-based synchronic and diachronic study of Romance languages. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter (Supplements to the Journal of Romance Philology 413). [This study was awarded the Elise Richter Prize and the Offermann-Hergarten Prize.]