Elly Van Gelderen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 504454 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Elly Van Gelderen |
| NOMBRES | Elly |
| APELLIDO | Van Gelderen |
| FIRMA | VAN GELDEREN E |
| AFILIACIONES | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0226-2245 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 6 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Teaching and Learning from HEL
Review Article| November 01 2022 Teaching and Learning from HEL Teaching the History of the English Language. Edited by Moore, Colette; Palmer, Chris C.. New York: Modern Language Association, 2019. Pp. ix + 360. ISBN 978-1603293839; $90 (pbk & ebk $37) Elly van Gelderen Elly van Gelderen Arizona State University elly van gelderen is a syntactician interested in language change. Her work shows how regular syntactic change (grammaticalization and …
Margaret E. Winters
Reflexive pronouns in the Lindisfarne glosses
Old English uses personal pronouns, demonstratives, and limited null subject for reference to previously mentioned nouns. It uses personal pronouns reflexively and pronouns modified by ‘self’ identical in form with an intensive. This use of a pronoun modified by self has been attributed to British Celtic influence. Other changes in the pronominal system have been attributed to Scandinavian influence, e.g. the introduction of the third person plur…
The Northumbrian Old English glosses
The articles in this volume contribute to our understanding of Northumbrian Old English of the 10th century, of the nature of external influence, and of the authorship of the glosses. This introduction provides a background to these three areas. Most of the introduction and contributions examine the Lindisfarne Glosses with some discussion of the Rushworth and Durham Glosses. Section 2 shows that the Lindisfarne glossator often adds a (first and …
Stability and Change in Intransitive Argument Structure
The argument structure of verbs is pretty uniform across languages. Thus, verbs of `falling’ involve a Theme and an optional Causer and verbs of `working’ an Agent. Aspect is relevant to that uniformity as well since the former verbs will be telic and the latter durative. Stative verbs form a third main class. I first show that, when (spoken/written) languages change, the basic argument structure and aspect don’t change for most unaccusatives and…
Are uninterpretable features vulnerable
Main and embedded clausal asymmetry in the history of English
In this paper, I sketch the CP layer in main and embedded clauses in the history of English. The Modern English main clause is not as easily expandable as the Old English one, but the reverse is true in the subordinate clause, where Modern English has a more flexible embedded CP than Old English. I focus on the developments of the embedded CP. It has been claimed that Old English lacks an embedded split CP and therefore lacks embedded V2 and a ho…
The Diachrony of Verb Meaning
Cyclical Change Continued
This book presents new data and additional questions regarding the linguistic cycle. The topics discussed are the pronoun, negative, negative existential, analytic-synthetic, distributive, determiner, degree, and future/modal cycles. The papers raise questions about the length of time that cycles take, the interactions between different cycles, the typical stages and their stability, and the areal factors influencing cycles. The languages and lan…
Cyclical Change Continued
Split Infinitives in Early Middle English
The split infinitive is one of seven syntactic properties that English is said to share with Old Norse, and I will show that, on the basis of the area and date of its first occurrence, Norse origin is unlikely
Features and affix-hop
In this paper, I review how formal features are currently regarded and used in the Minimalist Program. Although features are the cornerstone in Minimalism, they are used in many different and conflicting ways. Features may seem particularly relevant to affix-hop because the affix has to be checked against a higher verb or auxiliary. Chomsky’s (1957) analysis of affix-hop has the affix connected with an auxiliary, e.g., the -en of have-en , move t…
The changing languages of Europe
Heine and Kuteva show that the languages of Europe are becoming more and more alike in very specific areas such as the use of articles and relative pronouns. One might say that a European Sprachbun
From dialect to standard
Variable grammars
Aspects of the theory of syntax (50th anniversary edition), and the minimalist program (20th anniversary edition)
Reviewed by (Elly Van Gelderen)Aspects of the theory of syntax and the minimalist program, that is, Chomsky (1965) and (1995), have been reissued by MIT Press with new prefaces by the author and ne
Agreement and its failures
Reviewed by (Elly van Gelderen)This book is a revised version of Preminger's 2011 MIT PhD, entitled ‘Agreement as a fallible operation’. The main focus of the book (and the dissertation) is on the
Argument Structure in Flux
The present volume is centered around five linguistic themes: argument structure and encoding strategies; argument structure and verb classes; unexpressed arguments; split intransitivity; and existential and presentational constructions. The articles also cover a variety of typologically different languages, and they offer new data from under-researched languages on the issues of event and argument structure. In some cases novel perspectives from…
Argument Structure in Flux
The Linguistic Cycle and the Language Faculty
Because there has been a recent surge of interest in the linguistic cycle, this article presents a survey of cyclical change and shows how that change provides a unique perspective on the language faculty. The article provides a general background to the linguistic cycle and cyclical change. It reviews some of the cycles that we know and provides a possible account for them. (c) 2013 The Author. Language and Linguistics Compass (c) 2013 Blackwell…
Null Subjects in Old English
I review the proposal made by Sigurðsson (2011) that null arguments follow from third-factor principles, as in Chomsky 2005 . A number of issues remain unclear: for instance, the kind of topic that licenses null arguments in Modern Germanic, including Modern English. I argue that Old English is pro drop and add to the discussion Frascarelli (2007) started as to which topic licenses a null subject. I agree with Frascarelli and Hinterhölzl (2007) t…
The Linguistic Cycle
In this volume, Elly van Gelderen examines the linguistic cycle and describes how it offers a unique perspective on the language faculty. Each chapter provides data on a separate cycle from a myriad of languages.
Muriel Norde, Degrammaticalization. Oxford
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Cyclical Change
Linguistic Cycles are ever present in language change and involve a phrase or word that gradually disappears and is replaced by a new linguistic item. The most well-known cycles involve negatives, where an initial single negative, such as not, is reinforced by another negative, such as no thing , and subjects, where full pronouns are reanalyzed as endings on the verb. This book presents new data and insights on the well-known cyclical changes as …
Cyclical change
Interface conditions and code-switching
Agreement and its failures
Reviewed by (Elly van Gelderen)This book is a revised version of Preminger's 2011 MIT PhD, entitled ‘Agreement as a fallible operation’. The main focus of the book (and the dissertation) is on the
Null Subjects in Old English
I review the proposal made by Sigurðsson (2011) that null arguments follow from third-factor principles, as in Chomsky 2005 . A number of issues remain unclear: for instance, the kind of topic that licenses null arguments in Modern Germanic, including Modern English. I argue that Old English is pro drop and add to the discussion Frascarelli (2007) started as to which topic licenses a null subject. I agree with Frascarelli and Hinterhölzl (2007) t…
The Definiteness Cycle in Germanic
In this paper, I provide examples from Germanic of cyclical changes involving the nominal phrase. Using a DP structure, it can be observed that demonstratives in specifier positions of the DP are reanalyzed through time as articles in head positions. The change from demonstrative to article is known as the definiteness cycle and described in Greenberg 1978 and Lyons 1999. Providing examples from Old Norse, Old English, and Afrikaans, I suggest an…
The Linguistic Cycle and the Language Faculty
Because there has been a recent surge of interest in the linguistic cycle, this article presents a survey of cyclical change and shows how that change provides a unique perspective on the language faculty. The article provides a general background to the linguistic cycle and cyclical change. It reviews some of the cycles that we know and provides a possible account for them. (c) 2013 The Author. Language and Linguistics Compass (c) 2013 Blackwell…
Adjunction and (I)t
Guest in Her Father's House
Other| August 01 1989 Guest in Her Father's House Women Of Pakistan: Two Steps Forward? One Step Back? by Khawar Mumtaz and Farida Shaheed. London: Zed Books Ltd, 1987. Elly van Gelderen Elly van Gelderen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1989) 9 (2): 76–78. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-9-2-76 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio …
Tense and to in Layamon
David Denison, English Historical Syntax
Synchronic and Diachronic Approaches to Language
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The English Language
The Emphatic Origin of Reflexives
Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on The Role of Learnability in Grammatical Theory (1996)
Parameterizing agreement features in Arabic, Bantu languages, and varieties of English
Les structures sujet-verbe (SV) et verbe-sujet (VS) different au niveau de l'accord. Le probleme est de savoir pourquoi les langues ont moins d'accord verbal dans les structures VS que dans les structures SV. La theorie du gouvernement et du liage a fourni une solution a ce probleme en etablissant une relation d'accord Spec-Tete dans les structures SV et une relation de gouvernement dans les structures VS. L'A. explique ici les differents schemas…
English Historical Linguistics 1994
Verbal Agreement and the Grammar behind Its Breakdown
This book is about what the 'lack' of agreement indicates about the structure of language. Rather than assuming that mistakes occur in languages, disagreement can be seen as an indication of a certain structural relationship. In a Minimalist framework, the partial agreement or complete lack of agreement is determined by when checking of case and agreement takes place and with what nominal element. Earlier work has shown that there may be variatio…
The role of person and position in Old English
German
The Syntax of Mood Particles in the History of English
First, I will say something on terminology, structure, use, and meaning. In the Germanic literature, the term for the particles under investigation is mood or modal particles2, hence MPs (e.g. Abraham 1991a; Vismans 1994); in the English literature, terms such as discourse marker (e.g
Book notice
Grammaticalization as Economy
This book provides much detail on the changes involving the grammaticalization of personal and relative pronouns, topicalized nominals, complementizers, adverbs, prepositions, modals, perception verbs, and aspectual markers. It accounts for these changes in terms of two structural economy principles. Head Preference expresses that single words, i.e. heads, are used to build structures rather than full phrases, and Late Merge states that waiting a…
Book notice
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The CP and split CP cross-linguistically
In this article, I argue that languages differ as to whether their clausal complements constitute Complementizer Phrases (CPs) or split CPs in the sense of Rizzi (1997). I also show that Modern English finite complements are always split but that the specification of mood in these complements accounts for phenomena such as negative raising, the presence of certain complementizers and embedded topicalizations. Older varieties of English do not pro…
The Definiteness Cycle in Germanic
In this paper, I provide examples from Germanic of cyclical changes involving the nominal phrase. Using a DP structure, it can be observed that demonstratives in specifier positions of the DP are reanalyzed through time as articles in head positions. The change from demonstrative to article is known as the definiteness cycle and described in Greenberg 1978 and Lyons 1999. Providing examples from Old Norse, Old English, and Afrikaans, I suggest an…
Interface conditions and code-switching
Cyclical Change
Linguistic Cycles are ever present in language change and involve a phrase or word that gradually disappears and is replaced by a new linguistic item. The most well-known cycles involve negatives, where an initial single negative, such as not, is reinforced by another negative, such as no thing , and subjects, where full pronouns are reanalyzed as endings on the verb. This book presents new data and insights on the well-known cyclical changes as …
Cyclical change
Muriel Norde, Degrammaticalization. Oxford
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Linguistic Cycle
In this volume, Elly van Gelderen examines the linguistic cycle and describes how it offers a unique perspective on the language faculty. Each chapter provides data on a separate cycle from a myriad of languages.
Argument Structure in Flux
The present volume is centered around five linguistic themes: argument structure and encoding strategies; argument structure and verb classes; unexpressed arguments; split intransitivity; and existential and presentational constructions. The articles also cover a variety of typologically different languages, and they offer new data from under-researched languages on the issues of event and argument structure. In some cases novel perspectives from…
Argument Structure in Flux
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