Olga Fischer#
| Membership Number: | 5531 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.iconicity.uzh.ch/en.htmlhttp://www.uva.nl/profile/o.c.m.fischer |
Present and Previous Positions
- 05-10-2016 - the present Emeritus Professor of Germanic Linguistics, University of Amsterdam
- 01-01-1999 - 05-10-2016 Chair of Germanic Linguistics, University of Amsterdam
- 01-09-2012 - 01-03-2013, visiting professor, University of Lille 3, France
- 01-03-2009 - 01-07-2009, visiting professor, University of Vienna, Austria
- 01-03-2006 - 01-07-2006, visiting professor, University of Vienna, Austria
- 01-09-1985 - 01-07-1986, visiting scholar, University of Manchester, UK
- 01-09-1992 - 01-09-1999, Reader in Historical Linguistics, University of Amsterdam
- 01-09-1977 - 01-09-1992, Lecturer in Historical Linguistics, University of Amsterdam
Fields of Scholarship
- Historical syntax of English
- Analogy
- Iconicity
- Comparative Germanic linguistics
- Grammaticalization
Honours and Awards
- Since 1990 Fellow of the English Association, Leicester, UK
- Since 2000 Member of the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij van Wetenschappen
