David Lightfoot (linguist)
Appearance
David Lightfoot | |
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Born | February 10, 1945 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Michigan |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Linguist |
Sub-discipline | Syntactic theory, language acquisition, language change |
Institutions |
David William Lightfoot (born February 10, 1945) is an American linguist who served as an assistant director of the National Science Foundation from 2005 to 2009.[1][2] He is Emeritus Professor of linguistics at Georgetown University.[3]
Books written
[edit]- Principles of diachronic syntax. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge (1979).
- The language lottery: Toward a biology of grammars. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA (1982). [Spanish translation: Ediciones Antonio Machado, Madrid; Chinese translation: Liaoning Educational Publishing House] [Section on 'Creativity and Political Enlightenment' reprinted in C. Otero, ed. 1994 Noam Chomsky: Critical assessments. Routledge: London].
- How to set parameters: Arguments from language change. MIT Press [Bradford Books]: Cambridge, MA (1991).
- The development of language: Acquisition, change, and evolution. Blackwell: Oxford (1999).
- The language organ: Linguistics as cognitive physiology. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge (2002) (with Stephen Anderson).
- How new languages emerge. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge (2006).
- Born to parse: How children select their languages. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA (2020)
Books edited
[edit]- Explanation in linguistics: The logical problem of language acquisition. Longman: London (1981) [with an introduction] [Japanese translation: Shinyo-sha] (with N. Hornstein).
- Verb movement. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge (1994) [with an introduction] (with N. Hornstein).
- Syntactic effects of morphological change. Oxford University Press: Oxford (2002) [with an introduction].
- Variable properties: Their nature and acquisition. Georgetown University Press (2019) [with J. Havenhill]
References
[edit]- ^ "National Science Foundation Names David Lightfoot as New Assistant Director for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences". National Science Foundation. 2005-02-10. Retrieved 2018-05-11.
- ^ "Faculty". Georgetown University Linguistics Department.
- ^ "David Lightfoot Faculty Profile". Georgetown University. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
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- Linguists from the United States
- Living people
- Linguistic Society of America presidents
- University of Michigan alumni
- Georgetown University faculty
- 1945 births
- Philosophers of linguistics
- Deans of the Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
- Fellows of the Linguistic Society of America
- American linguist stubs