Karolina Rudnicka
List of John Benjamins publications for which Karolina Rudnicka plays a role.
Articles
2023 Chapter 4. Non-verbal plural number agreement. Between the distributive plural and singular: Blocking factors and free variation Free Variation in Grammar: Empirical and theoretical approaches, Kopf, Kristin and Thilo Weber (eds.), pp. 74–98 | Chapter
Unlike Slavic languages, such as Polish and Czech, English is assumed to prefer distributive plural agreement between the plural subject and the noun in the predicate part of the sentence. The aim of this paper is to verify this claim and (since this preference is apparently not without… read more
2021 So-adj-a construction as a case of obsolescence in progress Lost in Change: Causes and processes in the loss of grammatical elements and constructions, Kranich, Svenja and Tine Breban (eds.), pp. 51–74 | Chapter
The main focus of this study is the so-adj-a construction seen as an instantiation of grammatical obsolescence in progress. Starting at where Klégr’s (2010) synchronic study of the construction’s local grammar and syntactic functions leaves it, the present work provides a diachronic account of… read more
2018 Variation of sentence length across time and genre: Influence on syntactic usage in English Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change, Whitt, Richard J. (ed.), pp. 219–240 | Chapter
The goal of this paper is threefold: (i) to present some practical aspects of using the full-text version of the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA), the largest diachronic multi-genre corpus of the English language, in the investigation of a linguistic trend of change; (ii) to test a… read more