Elly van Gelderen Arizona State University 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) |
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Department of English Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 Office:
NOTE that I am occasionally off e-mail for a week |
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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. 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. |
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