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PhD Linguistics University of Amsterdam

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According to Wikipedia, Olga Fischer is a Dutch linguist and an expert on the English language. She is Professor Emerita of Germanic Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam and former president of the International Society for the Linguistics of English.

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The Syntax of Early English (2001) (194)
Morphosyntactic Change: Functional and Formal Perspectives (2007) (158)
The demise of the Old English impersonal construction (1983) (135)
Up and down the cline: the nature of grammaticalization (2004) (118)
Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English (2000) (112)
The development of quasi-auxiliaries in English and changes in word order (1994) (81)
On analogy as the motivation for grammaticalization (2008) (70)
Grammaticalisation unidirectional, non reversable? The case of to before the infinitive in English (2000) (60)
The distinction between 'to' and bare infinitival complements in late Middle English (1995) (53)
THE ORIGIN AND SPREAD OF THE ACCUSATIVE AND INFINITIVE CONSTRUCTION IN ENGLISH (1989) (53)
Grammaticalization as analogically driven change (2009) (52)
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 (2013) (47)
The Motivated Sign. Iconicity in Language and Literature 2 (2001) (42)
Negation in the History of English (1999) (41)
Syntactic change and borrowing: the case of the accusative-and-infinitive construction in English (1992) (38)
History of English syntax (2008) (36)
The position of the adjective in Old English (2001) (35)
Optional vs radical re-analysis: mechanisms of syntactic change [Review of: D.W. Lightfoot (1979) Principles of diachronic syntax] (1981) (33)
Form miming meaning (1999) (33)
The Fortunes of the Latin-type accusative and infinitive construction in Dutch and English Compared (1994) (33)
The development of English parentheticals: A case of grammaticalization? (2007) (30)
Explanation and linguistic change (1986) (30)
The motivated sign (2001) (29)
The grammaticalisation of infinitival to in English compared with German and Dutch (1997) (29)
Syntactic change and causation : developments in infinitival constructions in English : academisch proefschrift : ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam ... (1990) (29)
On the position of adjectives in Middle English (2006) (26)
The status of to in Old English to-infinitives: A reply to Kageyama (1996) (26)
Introduction: Iconicity as a Creative Force in Language Use (1999) (26)
An analogical approach to grammaticalization (2010) (25)
The rise of the passive infinitive in English (1991) (24)
The role of analogy in language change: Supporting constructions (accepted) (2017) (23)
A History of the English Language: Syntax (2006) (22)
A 'case' for the old English impersonal (1987) (22)
From Sign to Signing. Iconicity in Language and Literature 3 (2003) (21)
Papers from the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, 10-13 April 1985 (1985) (21)
The Year's Work in English Studies (2000) (20)
The development of the modals in english: Radical versus gradual changes (2004) (20)
On the Status of Grammaticalisation and the Diachronic Dimension in Explanation (1997) (17)
Cognitive iconic grounding of reduplication in language (2011) (17)
A Brief History of English Syntax (2017) (15)
From Sign to Signing (2003) (14)
What counts as evidence in historical linguistics (2007) (14)
Infinitive marking in Late Middle English: Transitivity and changes in the English system of case (1997) (13)
Iconicity in language and literature: language innovation and language change (1997) (13)
Developments in the category adjective from Old to Middle English (2004) (10)
Verbal complementation in early Middle English: How do the infinitives fit in? (1996) (10)
On negative raising in the history of English (1998) (9)
Iconicity: literary texts (2005) (9)
Semblance and signification (2011) (9)
On the Role Played by Iconicity in Grammaticalisation Processes* (2010) (9)
On problem areas in grammaticalization (2010) (9)
Grammaticalisation: Unidirectional, non-reversable? (2000) (9)
The role of contact in English syntactic change in the Old and Middle English periods (2013) (8)
Introduction: Iconicity and Nature (2001) (7)
Gower's Tale of Florent and Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale: A stylistic comparison (1985) (6)
An iconic, analogical approach to grammaticalization (2010) (6)
The influence of the grammatical system and analogy in processes of language change: the case of the auxiliation of HAVE-to once again (2015) (6)
A comparative study of philosophical terms in the Alfredian and Chaucerian Boethius (1979) (6)
On problem areas in grammaticalization: Lehmann's parameters and the issue of scope (2010) (5)
verbal complementation in Early ME: how do the infinitives fit in? (1996) (5)
Outside-In - Inside-Out, Iconicity in language and Literature 4 (2005) (5)
The Role Played by Analogy in Processes of Language Change: The Case of EnglishHave-toCompared to SpanishTener-que (2019) (5)
The status of the postponed 'and-adjective' construction in Old English: attributive or predicative? (2012) (4)
Introduction. Veni Vidi, Vici (2001) (4)
Analogy: Its role in language learning, categorization, and in models of language change such as grammaticalization and constructionalization (2018) (4)
Evidence for iconicity in language (2004) (4)
The semiotics of the mise-en-abyme (2001) (4)
Principles of grammaticalization and linguistic reality (2003) (3)
Introduction. From signing back to signs (2003) (3)
More support for more-support: The role of processing constraints on the choice between synthetic and analytic comparative forms (review) (2011) (3)
On the role played by iconincity in grammaticalisation processes (1999) (3)
Review of “World lexicon of grammaticalization” by Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva (2003) (3)
The Semantics of Structure: Iconicity in the Poetry of William Carlos Williams and E. E. Cummings (2013) (2)
Analogy in Language and Linguistics (2019) (2)
Introduction. In search of grammaticalization (2004) (2)
Grammar change versus language change: Is there a difference? (2004) (2)
English language. Morphology (1998) (2)
A brief history of English syntax (accepted) (2017) (2)
Some remarks on the analysis of perception verb complements in middle English: A reply (1987) (2)
Dimensions of iconicity (2017) (2)
New directions in English historical grammar (1995) (2)
Outside-In - Inside-Out (2005) (2)
Introduction. Iconicity in-side-out (2005) (2)
The Syntax of Early English: Preface (2001) (1)
The Syntax of Early English: The history of the ‘easy-to-please’ construction (2001) (1)
Iconicity in translation: Two passages from a novel by Tobias Hill (2015) (1)
The Syntax of Early English: Language change and grammar change (2001) (1)
Iconicity in translation (2015) (1)
Metaphor in academic discourse: a study of metaphoric language and L2 learning (2012) (1)
The Syntax of Early English: Verb–particles in Old and Middle English (2001) (1)
Changes in infinitival constructions in English (1999) (1)
UvA-DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) The development of the modals in english : Radical versus gradual changes Fischer (2010) (0)
Peripheries in syntax, with special reference to old English (2002) (0)
David Denison, English historical syntax: verbal constructions. (Longman Linguistics Library). London & New York: Longman, 1993. Pp. xiv + 530. (1994) (0)
Letters to Language (2004) (0)
The morphosyntax of Proto-Caribbean English Plantation Pidgin (2004) (0)
Changes in infinitival constructions (2001) (0)
18 ( 2 ) 3 Grammaticalization as analogically driven change ? (2010) (0)
Analysing Older English: The status of the postposed ‘ and -adjective’ construction in Old English (2011) (0)
Linguistic representations of motion events : What is signifier and what is signified ? (2008) (0)
Vebs of Motion in Medieval English (Book) (2004) (0)
An outline of Middle English syntax (2001) (0)
Eighth International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (2015) (0)
The Verb Phrase (2017) (0)
Subordinate Clauses (2021) (0)
The Syntax of Early English: The Verb-Second constraint and its loss (2001) (0)
Grammar change versus language change (2004) (0)
The sections on Syntax and Morphology in chapter 1, Language (1995) (0)
What Role Do Iconicity and Analogy Play in Grammaticalization? (2020) (0)
Auxiliation: An Enquiry into the Nature of Grammaticalization (review) (2004) (0)
The Noun Phrase (2017) (0)
UvA-DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) The distinction between ' to ' and bare infinitival complements in late Middle English Fischer (2010) (0)
Letter from the Editors Real Language Norms: Description, Prescription and Their Critics. a Case for Applied Linguistics 1 3. Description and Prescription 5. Real Language Norms 5.1 Real (language Norms) (0)
English language. Early and Late Syntax, & Morphology (1996) (0)
The Syntax of Early English: Grammaticalization and grammar change (2001) (0)
Word order phenomena in old English (1994) (0)
[Review of: Javier Rivas (2000) Ergativity and Transitive Gradients in the Accusative and Infinitive Construction. A Cross-Linguistic Typological Approach] (2002) (0)
3 A Sentence is a Half-Formed Thing: Observations on Iconic and Indexical (Morpho)Syntactic Blanks Inspired by Eimear McBride’s Debut Novel 59 (2019) (0)
"Langue", "parole" and the historical linguist (2004) (0)
2 Views Letter from the Editors the Editors the Editors Developing a Meaning-oriented Theory of English Word-formation 1 Prolegomena = Some Ideas 18 Views Articulatory Setting: the Genealogy of an Idea (0)
Langland's Conscience (1994) (0)
English language. Morphology, & Syntax (1999) (0)
[Review of: D. Denison (1994) English Historical Syntax: Verbal Constructions] (1994) (0)
Data and Data Handling (2017) (0)
[Review of: B.D. Joseph, R.D. Janda (2003) The handbook of historical linguistics] (2009) (0)
[Review of: J.T. Faarlund (2001) Grammatical relations in change] (2003) (0)
[Review of: H.F. Nielsen (2000) The Continental Background of English and its Insular Development] (2000) (0)
UvA-DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) Grammaticalisation : uniderectional , non reversable ? The case of to before the infinitive in English Fischer (2010) (0)
The handbook of historical linguistics (review) (2009) (0)
[Review of: R. Lass (1996) Old English: A Historical Linguistic Composition] (1996) (0)
Is There Life Beyond Generative Syntax? (2008) (0)
An inquiry into unidirectionality as a foundational element of grammaticalization (2015) (0)
Is zero the final stage in grammaticalization? Some surprising effects of deflexion in Continental Scandinavian (2002) (0)
The Syntax of Early English: The loss of object–verb word order (2001) (0)
Grammar change, language change and the historical linguist (2003) (0)
Current Research in Dutch and Belgian Universities and Polytechnics on Old English, Middle English and Historical English (1994) (0)
Perspective in experimental shaped poetry - A semiotic approach (2003) (0)
Book Reviews (2000) (0)
Iconicity as a fundamental force in language development (2004) (0)
The Role of Contact in Syntactic Change in English (2017) (0)
History of Englishes. New Methods and Interpretations in Historical Linguistics [Review of: M. Rissanen (1995) New directions in English historical grammar] (1995) (0)
[Review of: B. Heine, T. Kuteva (2003) World lexicon of grammaticalization] (2003) (0)
[Review of: M. Ogura (2002) Verbs of motion in Medieval English] (2004) (0)
Grammaticalization and iconicity: Two interacting processes (2004) (0)
Theoretical Models and Morpho-Syntactic Change (2017) (0)
Teaching the History of the English Language. Its position in the university curriculum and its relation to linguistic theory (2002) (0)
Unbinding the text: Intermedial Iconicity in Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books (2011) (0)
[Review of: J. Fisiak, M. Krygier (1998) Advances in English historical linguistics (1996)] (2000) (0)
English Historical Syntax; Verbal Constructions [Review of: D. Denison (1995) -] (1995) (0)
The Syntax of Early English: An outline of Old English syntax (2001) (0)
John Algeo (ed.), The Cambridge history of the English language, vol. VI: English in North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xxxii+625. ISBN 0 521 26479 0 (2003) (0)

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