Staff Profile
Dr William van der Wurff
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
- Email: w.a.m.van-der-wurff@ncl.ac.uk
- 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