Joanna Nykiel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1009402 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanna Nykiel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Nykiel |
| SIGNATURE | NYKIEL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kyung Hee University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4646-747X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Preposition omission under English pseudogapping
This paper maps out patterns of preposition omission under English pseudogapping, that is, outside of the usual environment in which they have previously been explored. It’s possible to drop prepositions in certain environments under clausal ellipsis (sluicing and fragments), but doing so leads to a (slight) degradation in acceptability in the majority of languages except present-day English. Various accounts have been offered to explain this deg…
Ellipsis meets the reactive what-x construction in English
We suggest a novel theoretical analysis of what is known as the reactive what-x construction. This construction, which has recently been noticed and described in Põldvere & Paradis (2019, 2020), has primarily clarificational properties and requires the presence of an antecedent in the preceding context. We begin by summarizing its syntactic properties and main functions, based on data drawn from the London–Lund Corpora of spoken British English, …
English comparative modals and their complements
English comparative modals are combinations of the adverbs rather , sooner and better with an auxiliary. There is recent consensus that the comparative modals rather and sooner have over time developed a different syntax and semantics than better . However, potential differences in the syntax of rather and sooner with respect to patterns of complementation haven’t been explored. This article reports the results of a corpus study of these two moda…
Introduction to the special issue Experimental and Corpus-based Approaches to Ellipsis
Ellipsis has been, and continues to be, of both theoretical and empirical interest. It affects the syntax of phrases or clauses by stranding their various constituents but keeps the semantics of the stranded constituents identical to that of their non-elliptical counterparts. The theoretical value of ellipsis lies, therefore, in the relationship between meaning and form that it encodes, such that a complete propositional meaning is paired with wh…
On the grammaticality of morphosyntactically reduced remnants in Polish sluicing
This paper explores the grammaticality status of reduced sluicing remnants (i.e., remnants realized as NPs due to preposition drop) in Polish. We provide experimental evidence that reduced remnants are variously acceptable in a specific environment (where there is a prior explicit correspondent in the antecedent clause) and are as unacceptable as ungrammatical structures elsewhere. We interpret this pattern as reflecting elaboration effects (i.e.…
Case-matching effects under clausal ellipsis and the cue-based theory of sentence processing
This paper is concerned with case-matching effects under clausal ellipsis. We begin by considering available crosslinguistic data that indicate that variation in case marking on a fragment is delimited by the argument structure of the lexical head that assigns case to the fragment’s correlate in the antecedent clause. We then offer experimental evidence for a case-matching preference in Korean when a fragment and its correlate may differ in case …
Fragments and structural identity on a direct interpretation approach
This paper examines the relationship between merger and sprouting fragments, which are typically taken to involve clausal ellipsis. We argue that structural identity constraints on fragments and their correlates should, where appropriate, make reference to the argument structure of lexical heads in the antecedent clauses. Our proposal is spelled out as part of a direct interpretation approach to clausal ellipsis, but, in addition, it incorporates…
English fragments, Minimize Domains, and Minimize Forms
We offer an account of preposition drop under clausal ellipsis in terms of two language processing principles: Minimize Domains and Minimize Forms. We argue that when Minimize Domains operates within the PP domain, it disfavors preposition drop due to the preferred independent processability of the PP fragment. When it operates within the VP domain it favors preposition drop in proportion to the number and strength of semantic dependencies betwee…
Constraints on ellipsis alternation
I offer a diachronic perspective on English ellipsis alternation, or the alternation between inclusion and omission of prepositions from remnants under sluicing and bare argument ellipsis. The relative freedom to omit prepositions from remnants has not been stable in English; this freedom is connected to the strength of semantic dependencies between prepositions and verbs. Remnants without prepositions are first attested, but remain less frequent…
Clefts and preposition omission under sluicing
Clefts and preposition omission under sluicing
Case-matching effects under clausal ellipsis and the cue-based theory of sentence processing
This paper is concerned with case-matching effects under clausal ellipsis. We begin by considering available crosslinguistic data that indicate that variation in case marking on a fragment is delimited by the argument structure of the lexical head that assigns case to the fragment’s correlate in the antecedent clause. We then offer experimental evidence for a case-matching preference in Korean when a fragment and its correlate may differ in case …
Constraints on ellipsis alternation
I offer a diachronic perspective on English ellipsis alternation, or the alternation between inclusion and omission of prepositions from remnants under sluicing and bare argument ellipsis. The relative freedom to omit prepositions from remnants has not been stable in English; this freedom is connected to the strength of semantic dependencies between prepositions and verbs. Remnants without prepositions are first attested, but remain less frequent…
Fragments and structural identity on a direct interpretation approach
This paper examines the relationship between merger and sprouting fragments, which are typically taken to involve clausal ellipsis. We argue that structural identity constraints on fragments and their correlates should, where appropriate, make reference to the argument structure of lexical heads in the antecedent clauses. Our proposal is spelled out as part of a direct interpretation approach to clausal ellipsis, but, in addition, it incorporates…
Clefts and preposition omission under sluicing
Constraints on ellipsis alternation
I offer a diachronic perspective on English ellipsis alternation, or the alternation between inclusion and omission of prepositions from remnants under sluicing and bare argument ellipsis. The relative freedom to omit prepositions from remnants has not been stable in English; this freedom is connected to the strength of semantic dependencies between prepositions and verbs. Remnants without prepositions are first attested, but remain less frequent…
English fragments, Minimize Domains, and Minimize Forms
We offer an account of preposition drop under clausal ellipsis in terms of two language processing principles: Minimize Domains and Minimize Forms. We argue that when Minimize Domains operates within the PP domain, it disfavors preposition drop due to the preferred independent processability of the PP fragment. When it operates within the VP domain it favors preposition drop in proportion to the number and strength of semantic dependencies betwee…
Fragments and structural identity on a direct interpretation approach
This paper examines the relationship between merger and sprouting fragments, which are typically taken to involve clausal ellipsis. We argue that structural identity constraints on fragments and their correlates should, where appropriate, make reference to the argument structure of lexical heads in the antecedent clauses. Our proposal is spelled out as part of a direct interpretation approach to clausal ellipsis, but, in addition, it incorporates…
On the grammaticality of morphosyntactically reduced remnants in Polish sluicing
This paper explores the grammaticality status of reduced sluicing remnants (i.e., remnants realized as NPs due to preposition drop) in Polish. We provide experimental evidence that reduced remnants are variously acceptable in a specific environment (where there is a prior explicit correspondent in the antecedent clause) and are as unacceptable as ungrammatical structures elsewhere. We interpret this pattern as reflecting elaboration effects (i.e.…
Case-matching effects under clausal ellipsis and the cue-based theory of sentence processing
This paper is concerned with case-matching effects under clausal ellipsis. We begin by considering available crosslinguistic data that indicate that variation in case marking on a fragment is delimited by the argument structure of the lexical head that assigns case to the fragment’s correlate in the antecedent clause. We then offer experimental evidence for a case-matching preference in Korean when a fragment and its correlate may differ in case …
Introduction to the special issue Experimental and Corpus-based Approaches to Ellipsis
Ellipsis has been, and continues to be, of both theoretical and empirical interest. It affects the syntax of phrases or clauses by stranding their various constituents but keeps the semantics of the stranded constituents identical to that of their non-elliptical counterparts. The theoretical value of ellipsis lies, therefore, in the relationship between meaning and form that it encodes, such that a complete propositional meaning is paired with wh…
Ellipsis meets the reactive what-x construction in English
We suggest a novel theoretical analysis of what is known as the reactive what-x construction. This construction, which has recently been noticed and described in Põldvere & Paradis (2019, 2020), has primarily clarificational properties and requires the presence of an antecedent in the preceding context. We begin by summarizing its syntactic properties and main functions, based on data drawn from the London–Lund Corpora of spoken British English, …
English comparative modals and their complements
English comparative modals are combinations of the adverbs rather , sooner and better with an auxiliary. There is recent consensus that the comparative modals rather and sooner have over time developed a different syntax and semantics than better . However, potential differences in the syntax of rather and sooner with respect to patterns of complementation haven’t been explored. This article reports the results of a corpus study of these two moda…
Preposition omission under English pseudogapping
This paper maps out patterns of preposition omission under English pseudogapping, that is, outside of the usual environment in which they have previously been explored. It’s possible to drop prepositions in certain environments under clausal ellipsis (sluicing and fragments), but doing so leads to a (slight) degradation in acceptability in the majority of languages except present-day English. Various accounts have been offered to explain this deg…
Linguistics (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (8 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Argument (complex analysis (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Ellipsis (linguistics (4 works)