Publications
Elly van Gelderen
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New Work on the Linguistic Cycle:
A volume on the Linguistic Cycle appeared recently with Benjamins.
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Feature Economy in the Linguistic Cycle, in an OUP volume edited by Paola Crisma and Pino Longobardi.
The Negative Cycle, May 2008 version, appears in Linguistic Typology 12.2 (2008): 195-243
The CP Cycle, appears in Transactions of the Philological Society 107.2: 131-195.
The DP Cycle in Germanic, December 2007, appears in Journal of Germanic Linguistics 19.4. (2007): 275-305.
Where did Late merge go? March 2008 version, appears in Studia Linguistica (2008): 287-300.
Negation in Athabaskan, October 2007, appears in Working Papers in Athabaskan Languages 7 (2008): 49-64.
The Subject Cycle, November 2009 version. |
Books
Grammaticalization as Economy. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John
Benjamins. (Linguistik Aktuell 71). 2004.
A History of English Reflexive Pronouns. Amsterdam and Philadelphia:
John Benjamins. (Linguistik Aktuell 39). 2000: xiv and 277 pp. [ISBN
9027227608 (EUR) 1556199880 (US)] Download the introduction: html
or
pdf
Verbal Agreement and the Grammar behind its `Breakdown': Minimalist
Feature Checking. Tübingen: Niemeyer. (Linguistische Arbeiten
Series #364). 1997: xiv and 222 pp. [ISBN 3484303646 ISSN 03446727]
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the Introduction.
The Rise of Functional Categories. Amsterdam and Philadelphia:
John Benjamins. (Linguistik Aktuell 9). 1993: x and 224 pp. [ISBN
9027227292 (EUR) 1556192274 (US)] Download
the Introduction.
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Recent Articles
The position of adjectives and double definiteness, co-authored with Terje Lohndal, Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 82: 1-22.
Interface Conditions and Code Switching: Pronouns, lexical DPs, and Checking Theory, co-authored with Jeff MacSwan, Lingua 118.6, June 2008: 765-776.
The Peterborough Chronicle and Accelerated Grammaticalization. In Alex Bergs and Janne Skaffari (eds), The Language of the Peterborough Chronicle. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 2007: 93-110.
Economy of Merge and Grammaticalization: Two steps in the Evolution of Language.
Linguistic Cycles and Economy Principle: The role of Universal Grammar in Language Change, to appear in a volume edited by Thorhallur Eythorsson The Rosendal Papers.
Structures behind Grammaticalization, to appear in the DIGS Proceedings, Stephen Anderson and Diane Jonas (eds). Oxford University Press.
Economy
against Prescriptivism: internal and external factors of language change:
LASSO presidential address, in SWJL.
Economy,
Innovation, and Prescriptivism: from Spec to Head and Head to Head:The
Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 7.1. 2004: 59-98.
Principles
and Parameters in Change. In: Leonie Cornips and Karen Corrigan (eds), Syntax and Variation: Reconciling the Biological and Social. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2005: 179-198. ( page proofs as a pdf-file).
"The CP
and Split CP cross-linguistically", WORD 55.3 (2004, appeared in 2005): 369-403. (needs to be downloaded
in word first).
"Aspect,
Infinitival Complements, and Evidentials", in The Composition of meaning: from lexeme to discourse, Alice ter Meulen et al. (eds). Amsterdam: John Benjamins (2004): 39-68.
"Grammaticalization as Economy: Late Merge as the Cause of Linguistic
Change", to appear in WECOL 2003 Proceedings.
"ASP(ect) in English Modal Complements", in Studia Linguistica
57.1 2003: 27-44.
"The Force of
ForceP", in Southwest Journal of Linguistics 20.2. 2001: 107-120.
"Modal Particles in Germanic", in Folia Linguistica Historica
22.1-2 (2001): 310-33, early
version in .pdf.
"Towards personal subjects in English: Variation in feature interpretability".
Grammatical
Relations, Jan Terje Faarlund (ed.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins (2001):
137-157.
"The absence of Verb-movement and the role of C: Some negative constructions
in Shakespeare", Studia Linguistica 54.3 (2000) 412-23.
"Bound
Pronouns and Non-Local Anaphors", in Reflexives, edited by Z. Frazyngier
& T. Curl. Amsterdam: Benjamins. (1999): 187-225.
"The Role
of Person in the Loss of Verbal Agreement and of Pro-drop", in Pathways
of Change: Grammaticalization Processes in older English, Olga Fischer
& Dieter Stein (eds.). Berlin: Mouton-de Gruyter. (to appear 2000):
187-206.
"Binding Theory and Minimalist Features", in the WCCFL 18 Proceedings
(1999): 558-569. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
"Structures
of Tense and Aspect", Linguistic Analysis 27.3-4 (1997): 138-165,
appeared in 1999.
"For to
in the History of English", in the American
Journal of Germanic Language and Literature 10.1 (1998): 45-72.
"Inflection
and movement in Old English", in German: Syntactic Problems - Problematic
Syntax, W. Abraham and E. van Gelderen (eds). Tübingen: Niemeyer.
(1997): 71-82.
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