Elly van Gelderen Office hours: M 10:30-11am and MW 1-2pm in LL 226C and by appointment ENG 314 Extra Q-hour: in LL 173N W 8:30-9:30am History of English and Grammar sites.Fall Syntax Reading Group: Wed 11-1 pm in LSA L1-94 |
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Department of English Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 Office:
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Educational Background:
McGill University, Montreal, Canada Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands Teaching Background:
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Research Areas Elly van Gelderen is a syntactician interested in language change. Her current work shows how regular syntactic change (grammaticalization) can be accounted for by (Minimalist) Economy Principles that help a child acquire a language and analyze it in a different way from previous generations. She is the author of six books, fifty or so articles/chapters, and has taught at ASU since 1995. Related interests are the evolution of language, biolinguistics, prescriptivism, authorship debates, and code switching. |
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