Elly van Gelderen explained

Elly van Gelderen (born September 20, 1958 in Geertruidenberg, the Netherlands) is a syntactician, and is especially interested in how languages change. She is the author of eleven books and eighty or so articles in journals such as Linguistic Analysis and Studia Linguistica.^[1] She has also taught at Arizona State University as an English professor since 1995.

Most cited books

• van Gelderen, E. The rise of functional categories. John Benjamins, 1993 (Cited 241 times)
• van Gelderen, E. Grammaticalization as economy.. 2004 (Cited 654 times)
• van Gelderen, Elly. A History of the English Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2006. (Cited 560 times according to Google Scholar^[2])
• van Gelderen, E. An Introduction to the Grammar of English. 2010
• van Gelderen, E. The linguistic cycle: Language change and the language faculty. Oxford University Press; 2011 (Cited 459 times)
• van Gelderen, E. Syntax: An introduction to minimalism. John Benjamins, 2017

Notes and References

1. Web site: Elly van Gelderen. 2022-01-23. The Conversation. en.
2. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&q=Elly+Van+Gelderen&btnG=