Elly van Gelderen

Spring 2010 schedule

Office hours: TTH 1:15-2:30pm, and TH 8:30-10am (9-10 for LIN 514)

History of English and Grammar sites.Spring Syntax Reading Group:

Wed 11-1 pm in LL 173N

Links   +    Teaching 

Publications

Presentations

Typology and Parameters

 Linguistic Cycles Project

    Art      +    Other Interests

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

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

ellyvangelderen at asu.edu

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


 

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

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.

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.


 

 

Talks/Presentations