Jerzy Nykiel
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jerzy Nykiel plays a role.
Articles
2019 ‘Thone vpon thother’: On pronouns one and other with initial th- and t- in Middle English Developments in English Historical Morpho-Syntax, Claridge, Claudia and Birte Bös (eds.), pp. 57–76 | Chapter
A frequent result produced by a search of the digital corpora of Middle English (henceforth ME) for instances of reduced th’ is a nominal involving the pronouns one or other with initial th- or t- attached. In this study I argue that two different mechanisms, that is reduction of the definite… read more
2010 The interplay of modal verbs and adverbs: A history of mæg eaþe English Historical Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008., Lenker, Ursula, Judith Huber and Robert Mailhammer (eds.), pp. 143–164 | Chapter
As Hoye (1997) points out, harmonic combinations of modal verbs and modal adverbs are not uncommon in Present-Day English. The present paper explores semantic and syntactic aspects of one of such combinations, namely mæg eaþe ‘may easily’, from a diachronic perspective. The collocation is attested… read more