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David W. Lightfoot
David W. Lightfoot
Professor of Linguistics, Georgetown University
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Principles of diachronic syntax
DW Lightfoot
Cambridge Studies in Linguistics London 23, 1979
24891979
The development of language: Acquisition, change, and evolution
D Lightfoot
Wiley-Blackwell, 1999
16831999
How to set parameters: Arguments from language change
D Lightfoot
Mit Press, 1991
13381991
Explanation in linguistics. The logical problem of language acquisition
N Hornstein, D Lightfoot
Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 47 (2), 1985
7311985
The language lottery: Toward a biology of grammars
D Lightfoot, P Julia
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 35 (4), 1984
5221984
How new languages emerge
D Lightfoot
Cambridge University Press, 2006
4892006
The child's trigger experience: Degree-0 learnability
D Lightfoot
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2), 321-334, 1989
4761989
The language organ: Linguistics as cognitive physiology
SR Anderson, DW Lightfoot
Cambridge University Press, 2002
4072002
Two types of locality
J Aoun, N Hornstein, D Lightfoot, A Weinberg
Linguistic inquiry 18 (4), 537-577, 1987
4021987
Predication and PRO
N Hornstein, D Lightfoot
Language, 23-52, 1987
3611987
How to set parameters
D Lightfoot
Cambridge, Ma: Mit Press, 1991
2501991
Trace theory and twice-moved NPs
D Lightfoot
Linguistic Inquiry 7 (4), 559-582, 1976
1551976
Myths and the prehistory of grammars
DW Lightfoot
Journal of Linguistics 38 (1), 113-136, 2002
1212002
The diachronic analysis of English modals
D Lightfoot
na, 1974
1191974
Government and contraction
J Aoun, DW Lightfoot
Linguistic Inquiry 15 (3), 465-473, 1984
1151984
The history of NP movement
D Lightfoot
Lexical Grammar, Foris, Dordrecht 4, 1980
1151980
The rise of the to-dative in Middle English
T McFadden
Syntactic effects of morphological change, 107-123, 2002
1112002
Principles and Parameters in Syntactic Theory in Explanation in Linguistics. The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition.
N Chomsky, N Hornstein, D Lightfoot
London: Longman, 1981
1101981
Why UG needs a learning theory: triggering verb movement
D Lightfoot
Historical linguistics, 190-214, 2014
1092014
Explaining syntactic change
D Lightfoot
Explanation in Linguistics. London: Longman, 209-240, 1981
1091981
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