Marta Ruda

List of John Benjamins publications in which Marta Ruda is involved.

Title

On the Syntax of Missing Objects: A study with special reference to English, Polish, and Hungarian

Marta Ruda

Focusing on objects, this book aims at contributing to the on-going inquiry into modelling structures with missing arguments. In addition to offering detailed discussion and analyses of a unique combination of three very different systems (English, Polish, and Hungarian), a larger goal here is to… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 244] 2017. xvii, 195 pp.

Articles

Ruda, Marta 2025 Null arguments and diagnostic issues: Argument ellipsis vs. null pronouns Null Objects from a Cross-Linguistic and Developmental Perspective, Barbosa, Pilar and Cristina Flores (eds.), pp. 28–48 | Chapter

Argument ellipsis (AE) has recently been gaining in prominence as the analytical tool employed to account for null argument data in a wide range of languages. The choice between this analysis and the null pronoun alternative is frequently determined based on two types of data, namely, a… read more

Mendes, Gesoel and Marta Ruda 2022 Chapter 7. Pseudo-coordination and ellipsis: Expressive insights from Brazilian Portuguese and Polish Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions, Giusti, Giuliana, Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro and Daniel Ross (eds.), pp. 169–190 | Chapter

In this paper, we offer some comments about the syntax of pseudo-coordination in colloquial registers of Brazilian Portuguese and Polish. Focusing on V1-take (and) pseudo-coordination, we suggest that, in both of them, V1-take (and) belongs to the expressive realm of language and we analyze… read more