Preface; 1. The shift towards a minimal UG; 2. Labeling in language change; 3. Determinancy in language variation; 4. Determinancy in language change; 5. Labeling and determinancy: verb-second and expletives; 6. Adjunct incorporation and avoiding pair merge; 7. Conclusion.
Provides a unique angle, by linking insights from theoretical advances in generative syntax to phenomena from language variation and change.
Elly van Gelderen is a syntactician interested in language change. Her work shows how regular syntactic change provides insight in the Faculty of Language. Elly is the author of eleven books and eighty or so articles/chapters, the editor of two book series and has herself edited or co-edited eleven books/special issues.
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