EDUCATION

Doctoral thesis published: April 2019 (Available at https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/data/149358)
Doctoral thesis defended: December 2018

10.2013 – 12.2018
Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg
Doctoral Candidate in English Philology
Doctoral Thesis: “The Statistics of Obsolescence: Purpose Subordinators in Late Modern English”

1st Supervisor: Prof. Christian Mair
2nd Supervisor: Prof. Bernd Kortmann

10.2004 – 07.2009 University of Warsaw, Institute of Applied Linguistics
Major: applied linguistics (English and German)
Master’s program (five years)
MA Thesis: “Towards a multimedia dictionary of language used in standardized medical documents”
Supervisor: Prof. Krzysztof Hejwowski

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

10.2015 – 09.2018
Doctoral Researcher
Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg
DFG-funded Research Training Group “Frequency Effect in Language”

08.2017 – 02.2018
PhD Completion Scholarship
Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg
“Abschlussstipendium nach dem Landesgraduiertenförderungsgesetz”

09.2016 – 09.2017
Parental leave

04.2014 – 10.2015
Tutor and Research Assistant
Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, English Department

07.2012 – 07.2013
Parental leave

10.2010 – 06.2012
Lecturer
University of Warsaw, Institute of Applied Linguistics

07.2009 – 06.2013
Consecutive interpreter, translator (self-employed)
Languages: English, German, Polish


PUBLICATIONS

Rudnicka, Karolina. 2018. Variation of sentence length across time and genre: influence on the syntactic usage in English. In Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change, Richard Jason Whitt (ed.). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
https://benjamins.com/catalog/scl.85

Rudnicka, Karolina. 2019. The Statistics of Obsolescence: Purpose Subordinators in Late Modern English. NIHIN Studies. Freiburg: Rombach.
https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/data/149358

Rudnicka, Karolina. (submitted) So-adj-a construction as a case of obsolescence in progress. In Proceedings of the Lost in change workshop held at the DGFS 2018 in Stuttgart, Svenja Kranich & Tine Breban (eds.). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.


TALKS AT CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

03.2019
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Language Change in English and Beyond: Linguistic Theory and Historical Corpora
full paper: "The Statistics of Obsolescence: Purpose Subordinators in Late Modern English"

03.2018
University of Stuttgart, Germany
DGFS 2018: 40th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society
full paper: "Obsolescence in the network of English purpose subordinators"

05.2017
Charles University, Czech Republic
ICAME 38
full paper: "Sentence length, genres and grammatical obsolescence"

04.2016
University of Nottingham, England
Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change
full paper: "Grammatical obsolescence, genres and sentence length: some of the interesting things diachronic multi-genre corpora can tell us"

10.2015
University of Helsinki, Finland
From data to evidence. Big Data, Rich Data, Uncharted Data
full paper: "How to investigate grammatical obsolescence? A case study from Late Modern English grammar"

06.2015
University of Helsinki, Finland
Changing English: Integrating cognitive, social & typological perspectives
full paper: "The statistics of obsolescence: case studies from
Late Modern English"

02.2015
Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany
Measuring recency and frequency effects in diachronic and synchronic data
talk: "Barely explored landscapes of grammatical obsolescence"

05.2014
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Usage-based theories and approaches in linguistics
poster: "Statistics of obsolescence: a pilot corpus study"


GUEST TALKS

05.2019
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Department of the History of English
http://wa.amu.edu.pl/wa/en/node/10800

07.2017
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Interdisciplinary Centre for Research on Lexicography, Valency and Collocation
"Variation of sentence length across time and genre: influence on the syntactic usage in English"


LANGUAGES
Polish Mother tongue
English C2
German C2
Spanish A2


SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS

Corpus linguistics, language variation and change, diachronic linguistics, quantitative approaches to language change, English as lingua franca, contact linguistics