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David Lightfoot

University of Maryland, College ParkORCID

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D. LIGHTFOOT, DAVID LIGHTFOOT, DAVID W. LIGHTFOOT, David LIGHTFOOT, David Lightfoot, David W Lightfoot, David W. Lightfoot, Lightfoot, D, Lightfoot, David

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University of Maryland, College ParkMcGill UniversityGeorgetown University
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David Lightfoot is an author at University of Maryland, College Park specializing in language studies, linguistics, and grammar.

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Humanities

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How to set Parameters: Arguments from Language Change

Mark Hale, David Lightfoot

Language

1994

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The child's trigger experience: Degree-0 learnability

David Lightfoot

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

1989

298

Mechanisms of Syntactic Change

David Lightfoot, Charles N. Li

Language

1979

167

Two Types of Locality

David Lightfoot, Joseph Aoun, Norbert Hornstein,

DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library)

1987

143

Predication and Pro

Norbert Hornstein, David Lightfoot

Language

1987

135

Myths and the prehistory of grammars

David Lightfoot

Journal of Linguistics

2002

106

Language Acquisition and Language Change: Inter‐relationships

David Lightfoot, Marit Westergaard

Language and Linguistics Compass

2007

77

Language acquisition and language change

David Lightfoot

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science

2010

63

Government and contraction

Joseph Aoun, David Lightfoot

Linguistic Inquiry

1984

50

Syntactic change and the autonomy thesis

David Lightfoot

Journal of Linguistics

1977

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