Rate My Professor Elly van Gelderen

Van Gelderen's scholarship explores syntactic change, grammaticalization, the linguistic cycle, verb meaning diachrony, and third factors in language evolution. She has authored key books such as The Linguistic Cycle: Economy and Renewal in Historical Linguistics (Routledge, 2023), Third Factors in Syntactic Variation and Change (Cambridge University Press, 2022), The Diachrony of Verb Meaning: Aspect and Argument Structure (Routledge, 2018), Syntax: An Introduction to Minimalism (John Benjamins, 2017), Clause Structure (Cambridge University Press, 2013), and The Linguistic Cycle: Language Change and the Language Faculty (Oxford University Press, 2011). Additionally, she has edited volumes including Internal and External Causes of Language Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, co-edited with Nikolaos Lavidas, Ioanna Sitaridou, and Alexander Bergs) and Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXII (John Benjamins, 2020). Her articles have appeared in journals such as Journal of Comparative German Linguistics, Linguistic Variation, and English Language and Linguistics. Recognized for mentorship, she received the Outstanding Doctoral Mentor Award in 2017, Distinguished Mentor of Women Award in 2004, and multiple Graduate Scholars of English Mentorship Awards from 1996 to 2000. Her research has garnered over 5,000 citations, shaping generative syntax and historical linguistics.