Rafal Molencki
List of John Benjamins publications in which Rafal Molencki is involved.
2027 Chapter 6. In search of motivation of the variation in the medieval English perfective construction Motivation in Language: A cognitive perspective, Drożdż, Grzegorz and Barbara Taraszka-Drożdż (eds.), pp. 138–152 | Chapter
Unlike most other Germanic languages, English lost the pluperfect construction with the auxiliary be + Past Participle. The occurrences of habban with intransitive verbs are found in Old English when some kind of accomplishment is expressed. In Early Middle English one can observe interesting… read more
2022 Chapter 6. From eadig to happy: The lexical replacement in the field of Medieval English adjectives of fortune English Historical Linguistics: Historical English in contact, Los, Bettelou, Chris Cummins, Lisa Gotthard, Alpo Honkapohja and Benjamin Molineaux (eds.), pp. 97–118 | Chapter
This chapter discusses the demise of Old English adjectives of fortune which came to be replaced with some new items of Germanic origin, in particular Norse-derived happy and Low German or Flemish lucky. Interestingly, in this semantic field referring to abstract ideas, English did not take… read more
2012 “Providing/provided that”: Grammaticalization or loan translation? English Historical Linguistics 2010: Selected Papers from the Sixteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), Pécs, 23-27 August 2010, Hegedűs, Irén and Alexandra Fodor (eds.), pp. 197–214 | Article
The Anglo-Norman phrase pourvue est que (rendering Latin provisum est quod) was grammaticalized in the mid-14th century as a specialized participle-conjunction phrase pourvue que, introducing clauses which expressed the sufficient and necessary condition. At the turn of the 15th century bilingual… read more
2007 The evolution of since in medieval English Connectives in the History of English, Lenker, Ursula and Anneli Meurman-Solin (eds.), pp. 97–113 | Article
2000 Parallelism vs. asymmetry: The case of English counterfactual conditionals Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English, Fischer, Olga, Anette Rosenbach and Dieter Stein (eds.), pp. 311–328 | Article