Bettelou Los
Linguist and philologist
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Bettelou Los's Degrees
- PhD Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Bettelou Los is a linguist and philologist specializing in the history of the English language. Since 2013 she has held the Forbes Chair of English Language at the University of Edinburgh. Academic career Los received her MA from the University of Amsterdam in 1986. After spending some time working as a translator, she obtained her PhD in 2000 from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; her dissertation focused on infinitives in Old and Middle English. From 2004 she held positions as lecturer first at the Vrije Universiteit and then at Radboud University Nijmegen, where she was promoted to senior lecturer in 2008, before moving to Edinburgh in 2013.
Bettelou Los's Published Works
Published Works
- The Rise of the To-Infinitive (2005) (153)
- The Handbook of the History of English (2006) (114)
- Discourse Adverbs and Clausal Syntax in Old and Middle English (2005) (75)
- The consequences of the loss of verb-second in English: information structure and syntax in interaction1 (2009) (58)
- Morphosyntactic Change: A Comparative Study of Particles and Prefixes (2012) (41)
- Infinitival complementation in Old and Middle English (1999) (40)
- The Architecture of the Human Language (1999) (37)
- The loss of verb second and the switch from bounded to unbounded systems (2012) (34)
- The acquisition of grammatical gender in bilingual child acquisition of Dutch (by older Moroccan and Turkish children): The definite determiner, attributive adjective and relative pronoun (2006) (32)
- Particles and prefixes in Dutch and English (2003) (29)
- Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English (2012) (25)
- A Historical Syntax of English (2015) (23)
- The Oxford Handbook of the History of English (2012) (21)
- Information Structure: The final hurdle?: The development of syntactic structures in (very) advanced Dutch EFL writing (2013) (20)
- The loss of local anchoring: From adverbial local anchors to permissive subjects (2012) (18)
- The rise of the to-infinitive as verb complement (1998) (15)
- The development of Old English: A linguistic history of English, vol. 2 by Don Ringe and Ann Taylor (review) (2016) (14)
- Word Order Change in Acquisition and Language Contact: Essays in Honour of Ans van Kemenade (2017) (13)
- Quantifying information structure change in English (2014) (12)
- The loss of the indefinite pronoun man: syntactic change and information structure (2002) (10)
- Onginnan/beginnan with bare and to-infinitive in AElfric (2000) (10)
- Linguistics in the Netherlands 2006 (2006) (10)
- Linguistics in the Netherlands 2007 (2007) (10)
- A typological switch in early Modern English – and the beginning of one in Dutch? (2012) (8)
- Onginnan/beginnanwith bare andto-infinitive in Ælfric (2000) (7)
- On the Interplay of Syntax and Information Structure (2012) (7)
- Clefts as resolution strategies after the loss of a multifunctional first position (2012) (7)
- Towards a grapho-phonologically parsed corpus of medieval Scots: database design and technical solutions (2017) (7)
- Recycling “junk”: A case for exaptation as a response to breakdown (2012) (6)
- The loss of the indefinite pronoun man (2002) (6)
- English Historical Linguistics 2006 (2008) (6)
- The emergence of Scots: Clues from Germanic *a reflexes (2017) (5)
- From resultative predicate to event-modifier (2004) (4)
- Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age (2018) (4)
- Using historical texts (2013) (3)
- The rise of verb-second (2016) (3)
- Particles as grammaticalized complex predicates (2008) (3)
- Charting the rise and demise of a phonotactically motivated change in Scots (2019) (3)
- I English Language (2021) (3)
- Phonotactics, graphotactics and contrast: the history of Scots dental fricative spellings (2020) (2)
- 'To' as a connective in the history of English (2007) (2)
- Chapter 1. “Permissive” subjects and the decline of adverbial linking in the history of English (2018) (2)
- Information structure and syntax in the history of English (2012) (2)
- Verb particle combinations in Dutch. The lexifier language for several Caribbean creole languages. Papiamentu, and the languages of Surinam: evidence for word order change? (2018) (2)
- Syntax and Information Structure in interaction: The loss of verb-Second in English and its consequences (2007) (1)
- Tracing L-vocalisation in early Scots (2016) (1)
- Syntax, text type, genre and authorial voice in Old English: A data-driven approach (2020) (1)
- Separable complex verbs (2019) (1)
- Historical Dialectology and the Angus McIntosh Legacy (2019) (1)
- Innocent bystander: the loss of the indefinite pronoun man (2005) (1)
- Demonstratives (working title) (2016) (1)
- Syntax and the morphology of deixis. The loss of demonstratives in the history of English (2018) (1)
- Early Spelling Evidence for Scots L-vocalisation: A Corpus-based Approach (2018) (1)
- Rule 1: Know Your Stuff (2016) (1)
- The category of the to-infinitive (2005) (0)
- Visualizing the development of prose styles in Horse Manuals from Early Modern English to Present-Day English (2020) (0)
- The decline of local anchoring: a quantitative investigation (2023) (0)
- G. Ferraresi,Word Order and Phrase Structure in Gothic Leuven:Peeters ,2005 90-429-1694-x (2007) (0)
- Incipient articles in Old East Scandinavian varieties (2022) (0)
- Using historical texts [Chapter 11] (2013) (0)
- Chapter 12. Verb particle combinations and word order change in Dutch-lexifier creole languages (2017) (0)
- Morphosyntactic Change: The lexical decomposition of Present-Day English verb particle combinations (2012) (0)
- Morphosyntactic Change: The paradox of particle verbs (2012) (0)
- Morphosyntactic Change: References (2012) (0)
- G. A. J. Tops, B. Devriendt, and S. Geukens (eds.), Thinking English grammar: to honour Xavier Dekeyser. Leuven: Peeters, 1999. Pp. 502. £36, ISBN 90 4290763 0 (2002) (0)
- Setting up the correspondence analysis (2017) (0)
- Referential functions of there+P pronominal adverbs in Older Scots (2017) (0)
- Correspondence Analysis of Old English texts (2017) (0)
- Special Issue on Visualisations in Historical Linguistics: Introduction (2020) (0)
- The Rise of the 'To'-Infinitive (online) (2007) (0)
- The expression of purpose in Old English (2005) (0)
- Appendix: Useful Corpora for Research in English Historical Linguistics (2006) (0)
- Morphosyntactic Change: Preface (2012) (0)
- The to-infinitive as goal-argument (2005) (0)
- The changing status of infinitival to (2005) (0)
- Visualising pre-standard spelling practice: Understanding the interchange of ‹ch(t)› and ‹th(t)› in Older Scots (2020) (0)
- Morphosyntactic Change: Historical corpora of English and Dutch (2012) (0)
- Morphosyntactic Change: The diachrony of the English verb particle combination (2012) (0)
- Morphosyntactic Change: Notes (2012) (0)
- 102. New Perspectives, Theories and Methods: Generative approaches to English historical linguistics (2012) (0)
- Morphosyntactic Change: The diachrony of prefixes in West Germanic (2012) (0)
- Generative approaches to English historical linguistics (2012) (0)
- Morphology and Syntax: sections 4 & 5 of chapter 1: English Language (Survey article) (2007) (0)
- Book Review: Book Review (2011) (0)
- Particles as grammaticalized resultative predicates (2006) (0)
- Carola Trips. English Syntax in Three Dimensions: History – Synchrony – Diachrony. Berlin/Boston, MA: De Gruyter Mouton, 2015, viii + 239 pp., € 29.95. (2017) (0)
- E. van Gelderen,Grammaticalization as Economy Amsterdam/Philadelphia:John Benjamins ,2004 90-272-2795-0 (2006) (0)
- A grapho-phonologically parsed corpus of medieval Scots: variation across time (2023) (0)
- Commanding and permitting (2005) (0)
- Visualising pre-standard spelling practice: The interchange of <ch(t)> and <th(t)> in Older Scots (2020) (0)
- Syntax and Information structure: discourse options after the loss of Verb-Second (2008) (0)
- L. Cornips,Syntax and Variation: Reconciling the Biological and the Social Amsterdam/Philadelphia:John Benjamins ,2005 90-272-4779 x (2007) (0)
- Sections 4 "Morphology" and 5 "Syntax" in Chapter 1, "English language" (2003) (0)
- Ian Roberts & Anna Roussou, Syntactic change: a minimalist approach to grammaticalization (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 100). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xi+275. (2005) (0)
- Grapho-phonological parsing: Corpus annotation for historical phonology (2017) (0)
- The rise of to-infinitival Exceptional Case-Marking (2005) (0)
- Morphosyntactic Change: The synchronic analysis of Dutch SCVs (2012) (0)
- Research Methods in Linguistics (2014) (0)
- From variation to iconicity (2016) (0)
- Hendrik de Smet, Spreading patterns: Diffusional change in the English system of complementation (Oxford Studies in the History of English). New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-19-981275-2. (2015) (0)
- Bare and to-infinitives in Old English Callaway revisited (1998) (0)
- Morphosyntactic Change: Conclusions (2012) (0)
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