Elly van Gelderen

Some information

Syntax Reading Group: Fall 2008, Wed 1-3, in LL 173N

Workshop on Typology and Parameters, on February, 27th 2009

History of English site: http://www.historyofenglish.net/

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Mail-address: 
Department of English
Arizona State University 
Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 

Office: 
G. Homer Durham Language & Literature Bldg, Room 226C 
480-965-2563
ellyvangelderen at asu dot edu


 

Educational Background: 
McGill University, Montreal, Canada 
Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Teaching Background: 
Groningen University, Queen's University, John Abbott College

Other:
Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo

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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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