David W. Lightfoot
List of John Benjamins publications in which David W. Lightfoot is involved.
2013 Doing diachrony In Search of Universal Grammar: From Old Norse to Zoque, Lohndal, Terje (ed.), pp. 259–274 | Article
Working on syntax through time requires good synchronic analyses of the initial and later I-languages. However, seeking to explain a change enables historical linguists sometimes to link the new I-language with particular features of the external language to which the innovating children were… read more
2012 Explaining matrix/subordinate domain discrepancies Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons, Aelbrecht, Lobke, Liliane Haegeman and Rachel Nye (eds.), pp. 159–176 | Article
There are discrepancies between matrix and subordinate clauses that call for explanation, particularly the apparent fact that computational operations may affect matrix but not subordinate clauses, and not vice versa. Explanations were offered in the 1970’s through principles of Universal Grammar… read more
2007 Abstraction and performance: Commentary on Fischer What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina and Anette Rosenbach (eds.), pp. 283–286 | Article
2004 Abstraction and performance: Commentary on Fischer What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics?: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina and Anette Rosenbach (eds.), pp. 741–744 | Article
1990 Obsolescence and universal grammar Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Adamson, Sylvia M., Vivien A. Law, Nigel Vincent and Susan Wright (eds.), pp. 281–292 | Article
1980 Review of Baron (1977): Language acquisition and historical change Studies in Language 4:3, pp. 411–417 | Review
