Olga Fischer
List of John Benjamins publications in which Olga Fischer is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1873-5037
Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems
Edited by Sara Lenninger, Olga Fischer, Christina Ljungberg and Elżbieta Tabakowska
This volume investigates iconicity as to both comprehension and production of meaning in language, gesture, pictures, art and literature. It highlights iconic processes in meaning-making and interpretation across different semiotic systems at structurally, historically and pragmatically different… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 18] 2022. x, 411 pp.
Operationalizing Iconicity
Edited by Pamela Perniss, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg
The Iconicity in Language and Literature series has long been dedicated to the recognition and understanding of the pervasiveness of iconicity in language in its many forms and functions. The present volume, divided into four sections, brings together and unifies different perspectives on iconicity. read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 17] 2020. xii, 331 pp.
Dimensions of Iconicity
Edited by Angelika Zirker, Matthias Bauer, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg
This volume addresses five different Dimensions of Iconicity. While some contributions examine the phonic dimensions of iconicity that are based on empirical, diachronic and theoretical work, others explore the function of similarity from a cognitive point of view. The section on multimodal… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 15] 2017. xiv, 351 pp.
Iconic Investigations
Edited by Lars Elleström, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg
The contributions to Iconic Investigations deal with linguistic or literary aspects of language. While some studies analyze the cognitive structures of language, others pay close attention to the sounds of spoken language and the visual characteristics of written language. In addition this volume… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 12] 2013. x, 357 pp.
Semblance and Signification
Edited by Pascal Michelucci, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg
The articles assembled in Semblance and Signification explore linguistic and literary structures from a range of theoretical perspectives with a view to understanding the extent, prevalence, productivity, and limitations of iconically grounded forms of semiosis. With the complementary examination… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 10] 2011. xii, 427 pp.
Signergy
Edited by C. Jac Conradie, Ronél Johl, Marthinus Beukes, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg
The title of this volume strives to capture the dynamic scope and range of the essays it contains, applying insights into the workings of iconicity to texts as far removed from each other in time as the Medieval tale of a bishop-fish and the war-poems of 20th century Italian Futurist F.T.… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 9] 2010. x, 420 pp.
Insistent Images
Edited by Elżbieta Tabakowska, Christina Ljungberg and Olga Fischer
Insistent Images presents a number of new departures dealing with iconicity on the conceptual and the structural levels. On the level of structure, the interface between different aspects of iconicity, lexical meaning and grammar is discussed in reference to both spoken and signed languages. Novel… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 5] 2007. xiii, 361 pp.
Outside-In — Inside-Out
Edited by Costantino Maeder, Olga Fischer and William J. Herlofsky
This fourth volume of the Iconicity series is like its predecessors devoted to the study of iconicity in language and literature in all its forms. Many of the papers turn the notion of iconicity ‘inside-out’, some suggesting that ‘less-is-more’; others focus on the cognitive factors ‘inside’ the… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 4] 2005. x, 427 pp.
Up and down the Cline – The Nature of Grammaticalization
Edited by Olga Fischer, Muriel Norde and Harry Perridon
The basic idea behind this volume is to probe the nature of grammaticalization. Its contributions focus on the following questions: (i) In how far can grammaticalization be considered a universal diachronic process or mechanism of change and in how far is it conditioned by synchronic factors? (ii)… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 59] 2004. viii, 406 pp.
From Sign to Signing
Wolfgang G. Müller and Olga Fischer
This volume, a sequel to Form Miming Meaning (1999) and The Motivated Sign (2001), offers a selection of papers given at the Third International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (Jena 2001). The studies collected here present a number of new departures. Special consideration is… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 3] 2003. xiv, 441 pp.
The Motivated Sign
Edited by Olga Fischer and Max Nänny
This volume, a sequel to Form Miming Meaning (1999), offers a selection of papers given at the second international symposium on iconicity (Amsterdam 1999). In the light of semiotic, linguistic and literary theory the studies gathered here investigate how iconicity works on all levels of language,… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 2] 2001. xiv, 387 pp.
Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English
Edited by Olga Fischer, Anette Rosenbach and Dieter Stein
There is a continual growth of interest among linguists of all-theoretical denominations in grammaticalization, a concept central to many linguistic (change) theories. However, the discussion of grammaticalization processes has often suffered from a shortage of concrete empirical studies from one… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 53] 2000. x, 391 pp.
Form Miming Meaning
Edited by Max Nänny and Olga Fischer
The recent past has seen an increasing interest in iconicity especially among linguists. This collection puts the interdisciplinary study of iconic dimensions (comprising what has been termed ‘imagic iconicity’, as well as ‘diagrammatic iconicity’, i.e. iconicity of a more abstract and less… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 1] 1999. xxxvi, 443 pp.
Explanation and Linguistic Change
Edited by Willem F. Koopman, Frederike van der Leek, Olga Fischer and Roger Eaton
This volume presents the outcome of a workshop, held in Amsterdam in 1985, on the nature, even possibility, of explanation in Historical Linguistics: why changes take place and others do not, and why they occur at a particular time and place. The workshop, and this volume, aim to explore questions… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 45] 1987. viii, 300 pp.
Papers from the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, April 10–13, 1985
Edited by Roger Eaton, Olga Fischer, Willem F. Koopman and Frederike van der Leek
These papers are a selection from papers presented at the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Amsterdam, 1985). Most studies deal with some aspect of an earlier stage of English, though present day varieties of English are also under investigation. Many of the papers… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 41] 1985. xvii, 341 pp.
2018 Analogy: Its role in language learning, categorization, and in models of language change such as grammaticalization and constructionalization New Trends in Grammaticalization and Language Change, Hancil, Sylvie, Tine Breban and José Vicente Lozano (eds.), pp. 75–104 | Chapter
This paper investigates and surveys the role played by analogy in language learning and processing, and its position in models of change such as grammaticalization and diachronic construction grammar. I will illustrate the importance of analogy by looking at Hermann Paul’s Prinzipien der… read more
2015 Iconicity in translation: Two passages from a novel by Tobias Hill Iconicity: East meets West, Hiraga, Masako K., William J. Herlofsky, Kazuko Shinohara and Kimi Akita (eds.), pp. 163–184 | Article
This article reports on a workshop in which translators explored how particular iconic features present in a literary text might be translated into another language. In advance of the workshop the participants translated two short passages from Tobias Hill’s novel The Hidden into (mostly) their own… read more
2015 An inquiry into unidirectionality as a foundational element of grammaticalization: On the role played by analogy and the synchronic grammar system in processes of language change On Multiple Source Constructions in Language Change, De Smet, Hendrik, Lobke Ghesquière and Freek Van de Velde (eds.), pp. 43–61 | Article
This paper assumes that in order to explain rather than describe language change, historical linguists should not only consider what happens diachronically at the language output level but also, crucially, what speaker-listeners do at the processing level. The reason for this is that the structure… read more
2013 An inquiry into unidirectionality as a foundational element of grammaticalization: On the role played by analogy and the synchronic grammar system in processes of language change On multiple source constructions in language change, De Smet, Hendrik, Lobke Ghesquière and Freek Van de Velde (eds.), pp. 515–533 | Article
This paper assumes that in order to explain rather than describe language change, historical linguists should not only consider what happens diachronically at the language output level but also, crucially, what speaker-listeners do at the processing level. The reason for this is that the structure… read more
2011 Cognitive iconic grounding of reduplication in language Semblance and Signification, Michelucci, Pascal, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 55–82 | Article
My aim in this paper will be to find out to what extent opaque reduplications could also be said to be (or to have been) motivated (i.e. forming iconic signs), with the further aim of exploring the possibility of a common source for all reduplicated forms. I will show by referring to the way… read more
2010 An analogical approach to grammaticalization Grammaticalization: Current views and issues, Stathi, Katerina, Elke Gehweiler and Ekkehard König (eds.), pp. 181–220 | Article
Two well-known approaches to language change illustrate a fundamental difference between functional and formal linguistics as to what are considered important mechanisms in change. In Grammaticalization, emphasis is on the semantic-pragmatic factors guiding change, while Generative Theory… read more
2010 An iconic, analogical approach to grammaticalization Signergy, Conradie, C. Jac, Ronél Johl, Marthinus Beukes, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 279–298 | Article
This paper addresses a number of problems connected with the ‘apparatus’ used in grammaticalization theory. It will be argued that we get a better grip on what happens in processes of grammaticalization (and its ‘opposite’, lexicalization) if the process is viewed in terms of analogical processes,… read more
2010 On problem areas in grammaticalization: Lehmann’s parameters and the issue of scope Formal Evidence in Grammaticalization Research, Van linden, An, Jean-Christophe Verstraete and Kristin Davidse (eds.), pp. 17–42 | Article
In a number of recent studies on grammaticalization, it has been argued that the Lehmannian parameter of scope decrease does not work, and that instead scope increase is involved. In this paper I will look at a classic case of grammaticalization, that of the English modals, and suggest that the… read more
2008 On analogy as the motivation for grammaticalization Studies in Language 32:2, pp. 336–382 | Article
The number of phenomena which are gathered together under the term ‘grammaticalization’ is quite large and in some ways quite diverse. For the different types of grammaticalization similar motivating factors have been suggested, similar principles, clines and hierarchies. Some of Lehmann’s… read more
2007 What counts as evidence in historical linguistics? What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina and Anette Rosenbach (eds.), pp. 249–281 | Article
The main aim of this paper is to establish the position of historical linguistics in the wider field of linguistics. Section 1 centres on the immediate and long term goals of historical linguistics. Section 2 discusses the type of data that play a role and looks at tools to be used for the analysis… read more
2007 Author’s response What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina and Anette Rosenbach (eds.), pp. 287–289 | Article
2005 Introduction: Iconicity in-side-out Outside-In — Inside-Out, Maeder, Costantino, Olga Fischer and William J. Herlofsky (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Miscellaneous
2004 Grammar change versus language change: Is there a difference? New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002, Kay, Christian, Simon Horobin and Jeremy J. Smith (eds.), pp. 31–63 | Article
2004 Author’s response What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics?: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina and Anette Rosenbach (eds.), pp. 745–747 | Article
2004 What counts as evidence in historical linguistics? What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics?: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina and Anette Rosenbach (eds.), pp. 710–740 | Article
The main aim of this paper is to establish the position of historical linguistics in the wider field of linguistics. Section 1 centres on the immediate and long term goals of historical linguistics. Section 2 discusses the type of data that play a role and looks at tools to be used for the analysis… read more
2004 Introduction: In search of grammaticalization Up and down the Cline – The Nature of Grammaticalization, Fischer, Olga, Muriel Norde and Harry Perridon (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
2003 Review of Heine & Kuteva (2002): World lexicon of grammaticalization Functions of Language 10:1, pp. 136–143 | Review
2003 Introduction: From Signing back to Signs From Sign to Signing, Müller, Wolfgang G. and Olga Fischer, pp. 1–20 | Article
2001 The position of the adjective in (Old) English from an iconic perspective The Motivated Sign, Fischer, Olga and Max Nänny (eds.), pp. 249–276 | Article
2001 Introduction: Veni, Vidi, Vici The Motivated Sign, Fischer, Olga and Max Nänny (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
2000 Grammaticalisation: Unidirectional, non-reversable? The case of to before the infinitive in English Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English, Fischer, Olga, Anette Rosenbach and Dieter Stein (eds.), pp. 149–169 | Article
2000 Introduction Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English, Fischer, Olga, Anette Rosenbach and Dieter Stein (eds.), pp. 1–37 | Article
1999 On the Role Played by Iconicity in Grammaticalisation Processes Form Miming Meaning, Nänny, Max and Olga Fischer (eds.), pp. 345–374 | Article
1999 Introduction: Iconicity as a Creative Force in Language Use Form Miming Meaning, Nänny, Max and Olga Fischer (eds.), pp. xv–xxxvi | Miscellaneous
1996 Review of Lass (1994): Old English. A Historical Linguistic Companion Studies in Language 20:3, pp. 686–692 | Review
1995 The Distinction Between To and Bare Infinitival Complements in Late Middle English Diachronica 12:1, pp. 1–30 | Article
SUMMARY The aim of this paper is to investigate the difference in usage between the bare or zero infinitive and the marked or (for) to infinitive in late Middle English. It has been generally recognised that grammatical function plays an important role here, but it does not explain the variation… read more
1987 A ‘case’ for the Old English impersonal Explanation and Linguistic Change, Koopman, Willem F., Frederike van der Leek, Olga Fischer and Roger Eaton (eds.), pp. 79–120 | Article