Prof. Ans van Kemenade studies the phenomenon of language change, historically as well as in the world around us. How and why does language change? What happens when speakers of different languages or dialects come into contact? How can language change be best described and explained? What is the interaction between linguistic and historical-social factors? Van Kemenade's research group is engaged in projects on language change and language contact in the recent and older history of English and Dutch. The emphasis is on the relation between language contact, language variation and language change.

Key publications

• Kemenade, A.M.C. van & Links, M.M. (2020). Discourse particles in early English. Clause structure, pragmatics and discourse management. Glossa. A Journal of General Linguistics, 5 (1):3. doi: 10.5334/gjgl.1020 Full text
• Struik, T. & Kemenade, A.M.C. van (2019). On the givenness of OV word order: a (re)examination of OV/VO variation in Old English. English Language and Linguistics. doi: 10.1017/S1360674318000187 Full text
• Links, M.M., Kemenade, A.M.C. van & Grondelaers, S.A. (2017). Correlatives in earlier English: change and continuity in the expression of interclausal dependencies. Language Variation and Change, 29 (3), 365-392. doi: 10.1017/S0954394517000187 Full text
• Haas, N.K. de & Kemenade, A.M.C. van (2015). The origin of the Northern subject rule: subject positions and verbal morphosyntax in earlier English. English Language and Linguistics, 19 (1), 49-81. doi: 10.1017/S1360674314000306
• Elenbaas, M.B. & Kemenade, A.M.C. van (2014). Verb particles and OV/VO in the history of English. Studia Linguistica, 68 (1), 140-165. doi: 10.1111/stul.12018
• Los, B.L.J., Blom, C., Booij, C., Elenbaas, M.B. & Kemenade, A.M.C. van (2012). Morphosyntactic Change: a Comparative Study of Particles and Prefixes (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, 134). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

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Courses

• Master's Thesis

Additional positions

• Member, Permanent Committee for Large-scale Scientific Infrastructures (01 January 2015)
  NWO
• Chair of the Scientific Advisory Council (01 January 2016)
  UIL/OTS, Utrecht Institute for Linguistics
• Elected member, 2019
  Academia Europaea

Curriculum Vitae