Jerzy Norbert Nykiel

Jerzy Norbert Nykiel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Bergen. His research specializes in historical English linguistics, particularly grammaticalization processes and morpho-syntactic change in Middle English.

Nykiel's publications focus on the evolution of subordinators, prepositions, and pronouns, examining their grammaticalization pathways from Old to Modern English. Recent work analyzes complex prepositions, adverbial subordinators, and pronoun variation in historical corpora.

He actively presents research internationally, including conferences on diachronic linguistics and medieval English studies. His investigations employ corpus-based methodologies to trace syntactic and morphological developments across different historical stages of English.

• Core Research Areas: Grammaticalization phenomena, adverbial subordination, pronoun development
• Methodology: Historical corpus analysis, diachronic linguistics, manuscript studies