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Elly van Gelderen is a linguist specialising in the study of grammar and syntax, also known as a syntactician. Born in The Netherlands, now living in the United States, van Gelderen fluently speaks Dutch, English, and German. She also has a good knowledge and ability in French, Swedish, Urdu, Spanish, and Yiddish. The linguist even speaks a little bit of Navajo.

Life
Elly van Gelderen was born Elisabeth van Gelderen on 20th September 1958 in Geertruidenberg, The Netherlands to parents Antonij Johannes and Elisje (Schuttevaar) van Gelderen. She married Harry McFarland Bracken, friend of famous linguist Noam Chomsky, on the 19th of June, 1985. Van Gelderen moved to the United States in 1995 continuing her career. She was widowed in 2011 when her husband died on December 15th.

Education
Born in The Netherlands, Elly van Gelderen received her BA and MA at Utrecht University in 1979 and 1981 respectively. However, she studied for and was awarded with her PhD in Canada at McGill University in 1986.

Van Gelderen received both her Bachelor and Master's degrees in English Language and Literature. After her time at McGill University, van Gelderen was awarded with her PhD in Linguistics.

Career
Van Gelderen started her career in Canada at the John Abbott College, Montreal from 1968 to 1989 as a instructor for the humanities faculty. During 1989 she became a lecturer in linguistics at McGill University as well as being a visiting assistant professor at Queen's University in  Kingston, Ontario in Canada. She remained in this position at Queen's University until 1990. Moving back to The Netherlands, Elly van Gelderen became an assistant professor of English linguistics at the University of Groningen for 5 years. She then continued her career in the United States of America where she became an assistant professor at Arizona State University, Tempe from 1995 until 1998. Since 1998 van Gelderen has remained at Arizona State University in the position of Associate Professor. She also remains a mentor for PhD students.

Editorial
Between 2003 and 2013, van Gelderen has taken on six roles for book series, five of which she continues to be active in. For five years she was a member of the advisory board for Encyclopedia of Linguistics, however stopped doing so in 2005. To this day, the Dutch linguist continues to be a co-editor for Linguistics Today and Studies in Language Companion Series. She also remains a member of the editorial board for both Current Issues in Linguistic Theory and Studies in Germanic Linguistics and is also a part of the editorial advisory board for the Edinburgh Historical Linguistics.

Between 2002 and 2015, van Gelderen began eight roles for journals and continues to do five of them including being a member of the editorial board for Diachronica,  Journal of Germanic Linguistics, Linguistic Analysis, Acta Linguistica Hungarica, and Journal of Historical Linguistics where she was also an editor until 2017. The other three roles involved being an editor of WORD until 2018, a member of the editorial board of South West Journal of Linguistics until 2017, and a member of the editorial advisory board of English Linguistics until 2020.

Between 1999 and 2014, van Gelderen took on roles in linguistic organisations and remains a member of the board for the Society for Germanic Linguists (where she was the president from 2000 until 2003). She also continues to be a Linguist List Advisory Board member. Other organisations she has been linked to are ISLE, the International Society for Historical Linguistics and the Linguistic Association of the South West.

Works
Elly van Gelderen has achieved a vast number of written works including 11 books, 9 edited volumes, and approximately 100 articles and chapters in journals.

Books
In 1993, Elly van Gelderen's The Rise of Functional Categories was published by John Benjamins. The book looks at the way word order has become a strict framework and how this is often determined by functional categories as well as lexical ones. Even without evidence, it is often presumed that these functional categories are present in every language, however van Gelderen suggests that it is down to the language learner to choose to incorporate them into their grammar.

Elly van Gelderen's second published book was released in 1997 under the title Verbal Agreement and the Grammar Behind its "Breakdown". She explores the idea of language structure and the relationship between the number of functional categories and the importance of case and agreement in a language. The book largely focuses on Modern,  Old and Middle English, and  Dutch however also touches upon other  Germanic languages ( German,  Swedish, Yiddish),  Romance languages (French,  Italian,  Catalan,  Spanish), Arabic,  Chamorro, Kirundi,  Hopi,  O'odham, Hebrew, Hindi,  Navajo, and Urdu.

The linguist went on to look at reflexive pronouns, drawing on her research into the differences between Old and Middle English. She further expands on research by Reinhart and Reuland in their publication that was printed in Linguistic Inquiry titled Reflexivity. Within her book A History of English Reflexive Pronouns: Person, Self, and Interpretability, van Gelderen argues the idea that across different languages the commonality and strength that different linguistic features hold (such as: case, person, number) differs.

Grammaticalization as Economy was published in 2004 and largely focuses on the changes involving the grammaticalisation of language within two structural economy principles.

2010 saw van Gelderen's fifth book published under the title An Introduction to the Grammar of English: Syntactic Arguments and Socio-Historical Background. It contrasts its discussion of basic concepts of grammar with more specialised topics including sociolinguistics and a historical view of the reasoning behind certain grammatical rules that have been put in place. This was followed by her 2010 revised publication of the book.

In 2011, van Gelderen began to look at the cyclical change of language in her publication The Linguistic Cycle: Language Change and the Language Faculty. This focuses of different cycles within language including a look into how English has changed from a synthetic language to an analytic one, but could be shifting back to a more synthetic language again. Van Gelderen also looks at cycles appearing where the negative phrases are reanalysed as words and affixes and are then seemingly renewed as full phrases again.

In 2013, Elly van Gelderen's researched was published in the book titled Clause Structure. Van Gelderen focuses on the most important research surrounding this syntactic theory and explores the shifts that occur within generative syntax.

In 2014, van Gelderen released her revised edition of A History of the English Language to discuss the development of English as a language, emphasising the linguistic history. Van Gelderen is very adament in her use of authentic texts within her research and this book is no exception. Aimed towards undergraduates, the book is intended to leave the reader able to differentiate English from different time periods, and to understand language change and language typology.

In 2017, van Gelderen released two books starting with her Syntax: An Introduction to Minimalism that starts with basic grammar rules such as phrase structures and grammatical and lexical categories and develops into more complex discussions. Van Gelderen followed this publication with Analyzing Syntax Through Texts: Old, Middle, and Early Modern English that takes a detailed look at manuscripts to build a deeper understanding of Old, Middle, and Early Modern English texts. The text is part of a series of books published by Edinburgh University Press including Analogy and Morphological Change by David Fertig.

Elly van Gelderen's latest published work is her 2018 The Diachrony of Verb Meaning: Aspect and Argument Structure where she discusses the study into language change within verb meanings in the history of the English language. The book combines van Gelderen's previous and newer research into the complex dynamic between linguistic structures, morphosyntactic and semantics, and the conceptual domain of meaning. The book brings together a range of different theoretical approaches to analyse in depth the history of diachronic change in verb meaning.

Edited Volumes
Elly van Gelderen has worked alone and with other recognised academics to edit academic volumes surrounding the topic of language. Between 1997 and 2019, she has worked on nine volumes.

Van Gelderen also looks at the German language with Werner Abraham in the book they co-edited in 1997 titled German: Syntactic Problems - Problematic Syntax. This was followed up by her work with Vida Samiian to edit Western Conference on Linguistics 1998 Proceedings in 1999. Then in 2010 she worked on Cyclical Changes for the Journal of Linguistics. In 2012 she went back to co-editing, this time with Michela Cennamo and Jóhanna Barðdal for a special issue of the journal Transactions of the Philological Society titled Argument Realisation and Change. She further worked with Cennamo and Barðdal in 2013 on a volume called Argument Structure in Flux. Van Gelderen worked on History of the English Language consisting of four volumes of the Critical Concepts in Linguistics series. In 2016, the linguist co-edited  Let Us Have Articles Betwix Us with Sten Vikner and Henrik Jørgensen followed by her appearing as an editor for the Journal of Linguistics again to edit Cyclical Change Continued. Most recently, in 2019 van Gelderen edited a special issue of NOWELE titled The Northumbrian Old English.

Awards
Elly van Gelderen has been nominated for a number of awards including the Outstanding Doctoral Mentor Award twice; winning it in 2017. A few others that she won are the Distinguished Mentor of Women Award that she received in 2004, Teacher and Mentor of the Year in 2001, and Outstanding Faculty Recognition in 1997 for ASU Disability Resources for Students. She was also honoured by Marquis Who's Who who listed van Gelderen as a noteworthy linguistics educator and researcher.