3 papers
cs.CL2025
The "negative end" of change in grammar: terminology, concepts and causes
Karolina Rudnicka
The topic of "negative end" of change is, contrary to the fields of innovation and emergence, largely under-researched. Yet, it has lately started to gain an increasing attention f…
cs.CL2025
"In order that" -- a data driven study of symptoms and causes of obsolescence
Karolina Rudnicka
The paper is an empirical case study of grammatical obsolescence in progress. The main studied variable is the purpose subordinator in order that, which is shown to be steadily dec…
cs.CL2025
Variation of sentence length across time and genre
Karolina Rudnicka
The goal of this paper is threefold: i) to present some practical aspects of using full-text version of Corpus of Historical American English (COHA), the largest diachronic multi-g…