Artur Bartnik
List of John Benjamins publications in which Artur Bartnik is involved.
2025 A discourse analysis of left-dislocation in Old English Historical Linguistics 2022: Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022, Kennard, Holly, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri and Martin Maiden (eds.), pp. 249–262 | Chapter
This paper examines the correlation between the position of resumptive demonstratives and personal pronouns in left-dislocation and their functions in the discourse. It shows that these structures typically introduce new topics, hence two thirds show no antecedent and topic continuity. When… read more
2024 Two types of left-dislocation in Old English Keys to the History of English: Diachronic linguistic change, morpho-syntax and lexicography, Porck, Thijs, Moragh S. Gordon and Luisella Caon (eds.), pp. 34–52 | Chapter
This paper examines two types of left-dislocated structures in Old English: contrastive left-dislocation (CLD) and hanging topic left-dislocation (HTLD). As reported in the literature, the constructions show differences with respect to three properties: the type of the resumptive pronoun… read more
2014 Determiners and Possessives in Old English and Polish Advances in the Syntax of DPs: Structure, agreement, and case, Bondaruk, Anna, Gréte Dalmi and Alexander Grosu (eds.), pp. 247–266 | Article
This paper examines the functional structure of the nominal phrase of the two article-less languages Polish and Old English. First, we will review the most important approaches towards the introduction of functional projections that have been proposed in the literature. Then we will argue for the… read more
2010 Discontinuous quantificational structures in Old English 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. 185–196 | Chapter
The paper deals with discontinuous quantificational structures in Old English. It concludes that quantificational constructions in Old English are heterogeneous because they can result from movement, that is separation of the quantifier and the rest of the phrase, or base-generation when the… read more