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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
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Linguistik der romanischen Sprachen; Diachrone
Korpuslinguistik; Grammatikalisierung; Tempus,
Modus und Aspekt; Pragmatik; Semantik
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- +49 521 106-3517
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- +49 521 106-6928 − Secretary's Details
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- UHG M7-109 − Locations Map
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oder alternative Emailadresse:
sarah.schwellenbach@uni-bielefeld.de
Postfach 429 (Lichthof C6/D6)SoSe 2025 - Vorlesungsfreie Zeit
Sprechstunde nach Vereinbarung per EmailSoSe 2025 - Vorlesungszeit
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Sprechstunde: Do., 11-12 Uhr. (nicht am 10.04.)
Die Sprechstunde kann wahlweise entweder im Büro (M7-109) oder via Zoom stattfinden.
Curriculum Vitae
since 03 May 2024:
Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the Linguistics of Romance Languages group (Chair: Prof Dr Barbara Job)
Current research topics
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
Main research interests
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
Memberships and Functions
BRV (Balkan Romance Studies Association)
DGfS (German Society for Linguistics)
DHV (German Hispanic Studies Association)
DHV (German University Association)
DIV (German Italian Studies Association)
DLV (German Lusitanian Studies Association)
DRV (German Romance Studies Association)
FRV (French Romance Studies Association)
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)
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