Work in progress
Nykiel, Joanna. Structural priming and preposition omission in fragment responses to questions. In prep for the special issue on ellipsis with Zeitschrift fur Sprachwissenschaft edited by Gabriela Bilbiie & Max Bonke
Nykiel, Joanna & Jacob Thaisen. Preposition drop in Danish fragments. Ms. Stockholm University & University of Olso.
Nykiel, Joanna. Investigating P-drop in Norwegian clausal ellipsis. Ms. University of Stavanger.
Nykiel, Joanna. Why early English needs constructionalization. Ms. Stanford University.
Books
Nykiel, Joanna. Variation in Syntax for the series Key Topics in Syntax. Cambridge University Press (contracted and in prep).
Kakietek, Piotr & Joanna Nykiel (Eds.). 2010. Topics in Shakespeare’s English. Czestochowa: The College of Foreign Languages Press.
Papers & book chapters on syntactic variation & language processing
Nykiel, Joanna. 2025. Preposition omission under English pesudogapping. Glossa 10.1. Doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.15203
Nykiel, Joanna, Jong-Bok Kim & Rok Sim. 2023. Case-matching effects under clausal ellipsis and the cue-based theory of sentence processing. Journal of Linguistics 59(2): 327-360. Doi: 10.1017/S0022226722000068.
Nykiel, Joanna & Jong-Bok Kim. 2022. On the grammaticality of morphosyntactically reduced remnants in Polish sluicing. Linguistics 60(1): 177-213. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2021-0071.
Nykiel, Joanna & John A. Hawkins. 2020. English fragments, Minimize Domains, and Minimize Forms. Language and Cognition 12(3): 411-443. Doi:10.1017/langcog.2020.6.
Nykiel, Joanna, Jong-Bok Kim, Rok Sim & Okgi Kim. 2018. Morphosyntactic form of Korean fragments is relevant to their resolution. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America. Vol. 3.
Nykiel, Joanna. 2017. Preposition stranding and ellipsis alternation. English Language and Linguistics 21(1): 27–45.
Nykiel, Joanna. 2015. Language production and online language comprehension behavior. In D. Gabrys-Barker (Ed.), Topics in applied psycholinguistics, 51–64. Katowice: The University of Silesia Press.
Nykiel, Joanna. 2015. Ellipsis phenomena in American English and selected European languages. In J. W. Boyer and B. Molden (Eds.), EUtROPES, 429–439. Chicago, Il.: The University of Chicago Press.
Nykiel, Joanna. 2013. Wh-phrases in sluicing: an interaction of the remnant and the correlate. In P. Hofmeister and E. Norcliffe (Eds.), The core and the periphery. Data-driven perspectives on syntax inspired by Ivan A. Sag, 253–274. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
Nykiel, Joanna. 2013. Clefts and preposition omission in sluicing. Lingua 123: 74–117.
Nykiel, Joanna. 2012. Sprouting tolerates preposition omission. Snippets 25 (March 2012).
Nykiel, Joanna. 2012. Variation in preposition omission in English ellipsis. LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts 2012. elanguage.
Nykiel, Joanna. 2011. Elliptical constructions and underlying clefts. LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts 2011. elanguage.
Papers & book chapters on theoretical syntax
Nykiel, Joanna & Nele Poldvere. 2024. Ellipsis meets the reactive what-x construction in English. English Language and Linguistics 28(3): 613-635. Doi: 10.1017/S1360674324000303
Nykiel, Joanna & Jacob Thaisen. 2024. English comparative modals and their complements. English Language and Linguistics 28(1): 73-93. Doi: 10.1017/S1360674323000485
Bilbiie, Gabriela & Joanna Nykiel. 2023. Introduction to the special issue Experimental and Corpus-based Approaches to Ellipsis. Journal of Linguistics 59(2): 229-234.
Nykiel, Joanna & Jong-Bok Kim. 2022. Fragments and structural identity on a direct interpretation approach. Journal of Linguistics 58(1): 73-109. Doi:10.1017/S0022226720000420.
Nykiel, Joanna & Jong-Bok Kim. 2021. Ellipsis in HPSG. In Stefan Mueller, Anne Abeille, Robert Borsley & Jean-Pierre Koenig (Eds.), Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: The handbook, Language Sciences Press (Open access).
Kim, Jong-Bok & Joanna Nykiel. 2020. The syntax and semantics of elliptical constructions: A direct interpretation perspective. Linguistic Research 37: 327-358.
Nykiel, Joanna. 2019. Polish. In J. van Craenenbroeck & T. Temmerman (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Sag, Ivan A. & Joanna Nykiel. 2011. Remarks on sluicing. In S. Mueller (Ed.) Proceedings of the HPSG11 Conference. CSLI Publications. (https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/article/view/758).
Papers & book chapters on English historical syntax
Nykiel, Joanna. 2015. Constraints on ellipsis alternation: A view from the history of English. Language Variation and Change 27(2): 227–254.
Nykiel, Joanna. 2014. Semantic dependencies and the history of ellipsis alternation. In M. Adams, L. J. Brinton & R. D. Fulk (Eds.), Studies in the History of the English Language VI: Evidence and Method in Histories of English, 51–70. Walter de Gruyter.
Nykiel, Joanna. 2010. Competence, performance and extra prepositions. Journal of English Linguistics 38(2): 143–166.
Nykiel, Joanna. 2010. Response to Elizabeth Traugott’s commentary. In R. A. Cloutier, A. M. Hamilton-Brehm & W. A. Kretzschmar, Jr. (Eds.), Studies in the History of the English Language V: Variation and Change in English Grammar and Lexicon: Contemporary Approaches, 65–66. Walter de Gruyter.
Nykiel, Joanna. 2010. Commentary. A possible approach to Old English prepositional phrases. In R. A. Cloutier, A. M. Hamilton-Brehm & W. A. Kretzschmar, Jr. (Eds.), Studies in the History of the English Language V: Variation and Change in English Grammar and Lexicon: Contemporary Approaches, 60–64. Walter de Gruyter.
Nykiel, Joanna. 2010. Whatever happened to English sluicing. In R. A. Cloutier, A. M. Hamilton-Brehm & W. A. Kretzschmar, Jr. (Eds.), Studies in the History of the English Language V: Variation and Change in English Grammar and Lexicon: Contemporary Approaches, 37–59. Walter de Gruyter.
Nykiel, Joanna. 2009. What if it’s lexicalization? In H. Fontanski, O. Wolinska & R. Molencki (Eds.), Essays in Honor of Kazimierz Polanski, 168–175. Katowice: University of Silesia Press.
Nykiel, Joanna. 2007. Resolution of ellipsis: evidence from Old English sluicing. Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 43: 111–125.
Nykiel, Joanna. 2007. When Syntax Won’t Go Away: A Diachronic Study of Verb Phrase Ellipsis and Sluicing. In Proceedings of DAARC 2007 - 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphora Resolution Colloquium, edited by Antonio Branco,Tony McEnery, Ruslan Mitkov & Fatima Silva. Centro de Linguistica da Universidade de Porto.
Nykiel, Joanna. 2007. Pragmatic and syntactic control of complement ellipsis and VPE in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Academic Papers of the College of Foreign Languages. Literature and Linguistics. English Studies 4: 103–112.
Nykiel, Joanna. 2007. Finding ellipsis in Shakespeares English. Linguistica Silesiana 28: 147–159.
Nykiel, Joanna. 2005. A dismissal of the transformational dimension of Shakespearean ellipsis — a story with a twist. Academic Papers of the College of Foreign Languages. Literature and Linguistics. English Studies 3: 215-224.
Nykiel, Joanna. 2005. A glance at the true self of Shakespearean ellipsis. Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 41: 147–152.
Nykiel, Joanna. 2004. The saving slide to dynamism: Ellipsis caught up in its otherness. Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 40: 181–192.
Reviews & book notices
Nykiel, Joanna. In press. Review of ’Independent wh-exclamative constructions in the history of English’ by Daniela Schroeder. English Language and Linguistics.
Nykiel, Joanna. 2021. Review of 'On Invisible Language in Modern English'. Corpus Pragmatics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41701-020-00097-7.
Nykiel, Joanna. 2010. Book notice of The syntax of nonsententials, ed. by Ljiliana Progovac, Kate Paesani, Eugenia Casielles, and Ellen Barton. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2006. elanguage.
Bibliographies
Kakietek, Piotr, Aleksandra Kalaga & Joanna Nykiel. 2007. A bibliography of publications on Shakespeares language. Academic Papers of the College of Foreign Languages. Literature and Linguistics. English Studies 4: 165–180.
Kakietek, Piotr & Joanna Nykiel. 2005. A bibliography of publications on Shakespeares language. Academic Papers of the College of Foreign Languages. Literature and Linguistics. English Studies 3: 273-282.
Introductions
Kakietek, Piotr & Joanna Nykiel. 2010. Introduction to the volume Topics in Shakespeare’s English. Czestochowa: The College of Foreign Languages Press.