Spring 2013: Syntax Reading Group: Wed 11-1 pm in LL 316

Office hours: MW 1-3 pm

February 2013: WCCFL 31 at ASU

Draft of Syntax Textbook (for CUP)

Office: 
G. Homer Durham Language & Literature Bldg, Room 226C 

ellyvangelderen at asu.edu

NOTE that I am occasionally off e-mail for a week

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

Other:
Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo

Curriculum Vitae; video

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. Her forthcoming book, The Linguistic Cycle: Language Change and the Language Faculty will appear with Oxford University Press in 2011 and show how cyclical change is relevant for theories on the faculty of language.

She is the author of a number of books, sixty 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.

Talks/Presentations