Fall Syntax Reading Group: Wed 1-3 pm

Fall 09 office hours: MW 10:30-11pm and MW 1-2pm.

History of English and Grammar sites.

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

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.

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.