Principles of diachronic syntax DW Lightfoot Cambridge Studies in Linguistics London 23, 1979 | 2498 | 1979 |
The development of language: Acquisition, change, and evolution D Lightfoot Wiley-Blackwell, 1999 | 1695 | 1999 |
How to set parameters: Arguments from language change D Lightfoot Mit Press, 1991 | 1341 | 1991 |
Explanation in linguistics. The logical problem of language acquisition N Hornstein, D Lightfoot Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 47 (2), 1985 | 734 | 1985 |
The language lottery: Toward a biology of grammars D Lightfoot, P Julia British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 35 (4), 1984 | 522 | 1984 |
How new languages emerge D Lightfoot Cambridge University Press, 2006 | 491 | 2006 |
The child's trigger experience: Degree-0 learnability D Lightfoot Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2), 321-334, 1989 | 476 | 1989 |
The language organ: Linguistics as cognitive physiology SR Anderson, DW Lightfoot Cambridge University Press, 2002 | 415 | 2002 |
Two types of locality J Aoun, N Hornstein, D Lightfoot, A Weinberg Linguistic inquiry 18 (4), 537-577, 1987 | 403 | 1987 |
Predication and PRO N Hornstein, D Lightfoot Language, 23-52, 1987 | 362 | 1987 |
How to set parameters D Lightfoot Cambridge, Ma: Mit Press, 1991 | 252 | 1991 |
Trace theory and twice-moved NPs D Lightfoot Linguistic Inquiry 7 (4), 559-582, 1976 | 155 | 1976 |
Myths and the prehistory of grammars DW Lightfoot Journal of Linguistics 38 (1), 113-136, 2002 | 122 | 2002 |
The diachronic analysis of English modals D Lightfoot na, 1974 | 119 | 1974 |
Government and contraction J Aoun, DW Lightfoot Linguistic Inquiry 15 (3), 465-473, 1984 | 116 | 1984 |
The history of NP movement D Lightfoot Lexical Grammar, Foris, Dordrecht 4, 1980 | 115 | 1980 |
The rise of the to-dative in Middle English T McFadden Syntactic effects of morphological change, 107-123, 2002 | 111 | 2002 |
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 | 110 | 1981 |
Why UG needs a learning theory: triggering verb movement D Lightfoot Historical linguistics, 190-214, 2014 | 109 | 2014 |
Explaining syntactic change D Lightfoot Explanation in Linguistics. London: Longman, 209-240, 1981 | 109 | 1981 |