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Elly van Gelderen (born September 20, 1958) is a published linguist and a professor at Arizona State University. She has published 11 books on the subject of semantic linguistics, and contributed to over 80 other articles or chapters in journals over the span of her career. She is fluent in Dutch, English. French and German and also possesses some Swedish, Norwegian, Urdu, Spanish, Yiddish, and minimal Navajo.

Teaching
Elly van Gelderen has been a professor at Arizona State University since August 2002 where she teaches modules on syntax, grammar, historical linguistics, typology, history of the English language, and forensic linguistics. . She has been a Regents' Professor at the university since 2008. She has also given a number of lectures and presentations around the globe on various aspects of linguistics.

Publishing
Van Gelderen has had 12 different academic books published across the past 25 years, discussing various aspects of English language and grammar. She is also a book review editor for Diachronica and a co-editor of the book series Linguistics Today and Studies in Language Companion Series.
 * The Rise of Functional Categories (1993) This looks at the optionality of functional categories across languages and that, even though Universal Grammar makes these available, the language learner must decide whether to incorporate them into their grammar, published by John Benjamins Publishing
 * Verbal Agreement and the Grammar behind its `Breakdown': Minimalist Feature Checking (1997) Focusing primarily on Dutch and English, this explores how a lack of verbal agreement might be an indicator of an underlying structural relationship, published by De Gruyter.
 * A History of English Reflexive Pronouns: Person, Self, and Interpretability (2000) A historical exloration of the introduction of reflexive pronouns, the loss of verbal agreement and the disappearance of morphological case in the English language, published by John Benjamins Publishing
 * Grammaticalization as Economy (2004) This book explores the changes involving the grammaticalisation of personal and relative pronouns, topicalised nominals, complementisers, adverbs, prepositions, modals, perception verbs, and aspectual markers, published by John Benjamins Publishing
 * An Introduction to the Grammar of English (2010) The book introduces basic concepts of grammar with a focus on syntactic analysis and evidence, written for undergraduate students and structured for a semester long course, published by John Benjamins Publishing
 * The Linguistic Cycle: Language Change and the Language Faculty (2011) This book provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and language families, to explore cyclical change. It explores the cycle of language changes such as verbal agreement and negative phrases, published by Oxford University Press
 * Clause Structure (2013) Explores key topics in syntax, published by Cambridge University Press
 * A History of the English Language (2014) This book outlines the history of English from pre-Old English times to the present, focusing on internal changes in the English language and presents morphological descriptions of the various stages of the language, published by John Benjamins Publishing
 * Syntax: an Introduction to Minimalism (2017) this book explores current syntactic theory and minimalism from its roots in generative grammar to an exploration of the details of minimalist theory, published by John Benjamins Publishing
 * Analyzing Syntax through Texts: Old, Middle, and Early Modern English (2018) This book illustrates the syntax and morphology of English with manuscript images and word-by-word transcriptions, published by Edinburgh University Press
 * The Diachrony of Verb Meaning: Aspect and Argument Structure (2018) This book explores the study of language change in verb meaning over the history of the English language, published by Routledge

Personal Life
Outside of academia, van Gelderen is a keen amateur artist, who specialises in doing portraits of people in pastel. She has had her work represented in a number of art exhibits across the United States.