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Staff Profile

Dr William van der Wurff

Senior Lecturer in Linguistics

  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 3876
Research

Research Interests

The history of English, diachronic syntax, grammaticalisation, tense-mood-aspect systems.

Current Work

The syntax of NO in early Modern English; anaphoric NPs in early Modern English; adjective-plus-infinitive constructions in late Modern English; reverse reanalysis as a mechanism of language change.

Postgraduate Supervision

See the above areas.

Teaching

Various modules on the history of English and language change; lexical innovation in present-day English; Bengali linguistics.

Publications

  • Articles

    • Corrigan KP, Montgomery C. . English Language and Linguistics 2015, 19(2), 203-211.
    • Wallage P, van der Wurff W. . Anglo-Saxon England 2013, 42, 183-215.
    • Mackenzie IE, van der Wurff W. . Language 2012, 88(4), 846-876.
    • Taylor A, van der Wurff W. . English Language and Linguistics 2005, 9(1), 1-4.
    • Moerenhout M, van der Wurff W. . English Language and Linguistics 2005, 9(1), 83-114.
    • Los B, van der Wurff W. . The Year's Work in English Studies 2004, 83(1), 5-39.
    • van der Wurff WAM. . Studies in Language 2001, 25(3), 685-691.
    • van Gent-Petter M, van der Wurff WAM. . Year's Work in English Studies 2001, 80(1), 11-55.

  • Authored Books

    • Fischer O, De Smet H, van der Wurff W. . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
    • Nasrin MB, van der Wurff WAM. . Abingdon: Routledge, 2009.
    • Fischer O, Kemenade A, Koopman W, Wurff W. The Syntax of Early English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

  • Book Chapters

    • Vanderwurff W. . In: Anne Bannink and Wim Honselaar, ed. From variation to iconicity: Festschrift for Olga Fischer on the occasion of her 65th birthday. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Pegasus, 2016, pp.453-467.
    • Tieken-Boon van Ostade I, van der Wurff W. . In: Tieken-Boon van Ostade, I., van der Wurff, W, ed. Current Issues in Late Modern English. Bern: Peter Lang, 2009, pp.9-31.
    • Los B, van der Wurff W. . In: Baker, W; Womack, K, ed. The Year's Work in English Studies 85, Covering Work Published in 2004. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp.20-40.
    • Fischer OCM, van der Wurff W. . In: Hogg, R., Denison, D, ed. A History of the English Language. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp.109-198.
    • Los B, van der Wurff W. . In: Baker, W.; Womack, K, ed. The Year's Work in English Studies 84, Covering Work Published in 2003. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp.23-50.
    • van der Wurff W. . In: Fisiak, J., Kang, H.-K, ed. Recent Trends in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Young-Bae Park. Seoul: Thaehaksa, 2005, pp.1-36.
    • van der Wurff W. . In: Lee, H.-M. Park, Y.-B, ed. Otto Jespersen: Festschrift for the 80th Birthday of Professor Sung-Sik Cho. Seoul, North Korea: Hankook Munhwasa, 2004, pp.572-614.
    • Los B, van der Wurff W. . In: Baker, W; Womack, K, ed. The Year's Work in English Studies 82, Covering Work Published in 2001. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp.10-47.
    • Los B, van der Wurff W. . In: Baker, W.; Womack, K, ed. The Year's Work in English Studies 81, Covering Work Published in 2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp.8-58.
    • van der Wurff W. . In: Fisiak, J, ed. Studies in English Historical Linguistics and Philology. Bern: Peter Lang, 2002, pp.469-487.
    • Beukema F, van der Wurff W. . In: Barbiers, S., Beukema, F., van der Wurff, W, ed. Modality and its Interaction with the Verbal System. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins, 2002, pp.75-102.
    • van der Wurff W. . In: Güldemann, T., von Roncador, M, ed. Reported Discourse: A Meeting Ground for Different Linguistic Domains. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2002, pp.121-139.
    • Güldemann T, von Roncador M, van der Wurff W. . In: Güldemann, T., von Roncador, M, ed. Reported Discourse: A Meeting Ground for Different Linguistic Domains. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Pub Co, 2002, pp.363-415.
    • O. Fischer and W. van der Wurff. The Year's Work in English Studies 1997, The English Language: Morphology and Syntax. In: Kitson. P.J, ed. The Year's Work in English Studies 78: The Year's Work 1997. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000, pp.7-67.

  • Edited Books

    • Tieken-Boon van Ostade I, van der Wurff W, ed. . Bern: Peter Lang, 2009.
    • van der Wurff W, ed. . Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2007.
    • Barbiers S, Beukema F, van der Wurff W, ed. . Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002.

  • Note

    • Wallage P, Vanderwurff W. . Old English Newsletter 2014, 45(1).

  • Report

    • van der Wurff W. . York, UK: University of York, 2006. Papers in Linguistics (Series 2).

  • Review

    • Elenbaas M, van der Wurff W. . Studies in Language 2003, 27(2), 448-456.