Frau Dr. Sarah Schwellenbach-Siwonia

Representative Publications

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

Schwellenbach, Sarah, 2025. Revising and extending Gricean maxims: The TRICS-Principles. Journal of Linguistics, 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226725100765 (Open Access)

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. [This article won the Jacob L. Mey and Hartmut Haberland Early Career Award]
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2022.03.022 (Open Access)

Schwellenbach, Sarah, 2019. Avertiv und Proximativ: Eine korpusbasierte synchrone und diachrone Untersuchung der romanischen Sprachen. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 413). [This study was awarded the Elise Richter Prize and the Offermann-Hergarten Prize]
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110526745

Forschungsschwerpunkte
Pragmatics and semantics (Neo-Gricean pragmatics; interaction; pragmatics/semantics interface; formal and empirical approaches)
Philosophy of language
Language change and contact (grammaticalization; conventionalization of conversational implicatures; TAM auxiliarization; contact-induced change; areal convergence)
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

BRV (Balkanromanistenverband)
DGfS (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft)
DHV (Deutscher Hispanistikverband )
DHV (Deutscher Hochschulverband)
DIV (Deutscher Italianistikverband)
DLV (Deutscher Lusitanistenverband)
DRV (Deutscher Romanistenverband)
FRV (Frankoromanistenverband)
IPrA (International Pragmatics Association)
LAGB (Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
LSA (Linguistic Society of America)
NEHiLP (Núcleo de Apoio à Pesquisa em Etimologia e História da Língua Portuguesa)
SLE (Societas Linguistica Europaea)
SLR (Société de Linguistique Romane)