David W. Lightfoot

David W. Lightfoot's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings

David W. Lightfoot

Communications

#6210

World Rank

#8557

Historical Rank

Linguistics

#1101

World Rank

#1396

Historical Rank

communications Degrees

Download Badge

Communications

David W. Lightfoot's Degrees

PhD Linguistics University of Chicago
Masters Linguistics University of Chicago
Bachelors Linguistics University of Chicago

Why Is David W. Lightfoot Influential?

(Suggest an Edit or Addition)

(See a Problem?)

David W. Lightfoot's Published Works

Number of citations in a given year to any of this author's works

Total number of citations to an author for the works they published in a given year. This highlights publication of the most important work(s) by the author

Published Works

Principles of diachronic syntax (1979) (775)
Explaining language change: an evolutionary approach (2002) (696)
The Development of Language: Acquisition, Change, and Evolution (1999) (598)
Explanation in Linguistics: The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition (1982) (359)
The child's trigger experience: Degree-0 learnability (1989) (298)
How to Set Parameters: Arguments from Language Change (1991) (218)
Mechanisms of syntactic change (1979) (181)
Global agricultural intensification during climate change: a role for genomics (2015) (177)
Two Types of Locality (1987) (175)
The View from Building 20: Essays in Linguistics in Honor of Sylvain Bromberger (1995) (171)
Predication and PRO (1987) (135)
The Language Organ: Linguistics as Cognitive Physiology (2002) (126)
Syntactic effects of morphological change (2002) (109)
How New Languages Emerge (2006) (92)
Formal Specification Using Z (1991) (86)
The development of language (1999) (85)
The human language faculty as an organ. (2000) (76)
Verb-Object Order in Early Middle English (2000) (76)
Myths and the prehistory of grammars (2002) (72)
Verb movement: Index (1994) (56)
Government and contraction (1984) (49)
Modular Programming Languages, 7th Joint Modular Languages Conference, JMLC 2006, Oxford, UK, September 13-15, 2006, Proceedings (2006) (48)
Language Acquisition and Language Change: Inter-relationships (2007) (46)
The Sound Pattern of Ancient Greek (1975) (42)
Rule generalization and optionality in language change (1985) (42)
English: The language of the Vikings by Joseph Embley Emonds and Jan Terje Faarlund (review) (2016) (40)
Language acquisition and language change. (2006) (39)
Catastrophic change and learning theory (1997) (37)
Subjacency and Sex. (1991) (37)
Trace Theory and Twice-Moved NPs (1976) (36)
Science and Engineering Doctorate Awards: 2004 (2006) (32)
Geoffrey Sampson, Liberty and language . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp. x+251. (1981) (31)
Vitrectomy in infants and children with retinal detachments caused by cicatricial retrolental fibroplasia. (1982) (29)
Studies in Linguistic Semantics , ed. Charles J. Fillmore and D. Terence Langendoen. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. (1973) (28)
Peter W. Culicover and Wendy K. Wilkins, Locality in linguistic theory . New York and London: Academic Press, 1984. Pp. viii + 276. (1986) (27)
Biology and language : a consideration of alternatives 1 (2005) (27)
Potential Impact of the 2016 Consensus Definitions of Sepsis and Septic Shock on Future Sepsis Research (2017) (20)
The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: The Spandrels of the Linguistic Genotype (2000) (20)
Plato’s Problem, UG, and the language organ (2005) (19)
A Restructuring Rule (1978) (17)
Rule Classes and Syntactic Change (1979) (16)
Social, Behavioral and Economic Research in the Federal Context (2009) (15)
The History of NP Movement (1980) (15)
Minimizing government: Deletion as cliticization (2006) (14)
Cuing a New Grammar (2008) (13)
Comments on the paper by Vikner (1994) (13)
More myths (2002) (12)
Biology and language: a response to Everett (2005) (2006) (12)
Natural logic and the Greek moods : the nature of the subjunctive and optative in classical Greek (1975) (11)
The Language Organ: Contents (2002) (11)
Interstate Migration Patterns of Recent Recipients of Bachelor ’ s and Master ’ s Degrees in Science and Engineering (2005) (10)
Comments on the paper by Ouhalla (1994) (10)
Verb movement: Verb movement: an introduction (1994) (10)
Promises, Promises: General Learning Algorithms (1998) (9)
Syntactic change and the autonomy thesis (1977) (9)
DIACHRONIC SYNTAX: EXTRAPOSITION AND DEEP STRUCTURE RE-ANALYSES (1976) (9)
Verbs and diachronic syntax: A comparative history of English and French By Ian G. Roberts (review) (2015) (8)
Discovering new variable properties without parameters (2017) (8)
Fatal haemorrhage from a caput medusae: A differential to a stabbing (2007) (8)
The development of grammars (1998) (8)
Variable Properties in Language: Their Nature and Acquisition (2019) (7)
Born to Parse (2020) (7)
Grammatical Approaches to Syntactic Change (2008) (7)
Grammars for people (1995) (7)
Honey Bees and Humans: Shared Innovation (2006) (7)
Comments on the paper by Santorini (1994) (6)
Old heads and new heads (1990) (6)
Intact grammars but intermittent access (2000) (6)
A reply to some critics (1981) (6)
On reconstructing a proto-syntax (1980) (6)
Indeterminacy in syntax (1974) (5)
The Brythonic copula and head raising (1994) (5)
Types of explanation in history (2013) (5)
The relative richness of triggers and the bioprogram (1984) (5)
Explaining matrix/subordinate domain discrepancies (2012) (4)
Traditional language change (2006) (4)
Traditional language change (2006) (4)
Zonnon Language Report (2009) (4)
Social and behavioral scientists building cyberinfrastructure (2007) (4)
Imperfect Transmission and Discontinuity (2017) (3)
Notes on entailment and universal quantifiers (1972) (3)
The Language Organ: Preface (2002) (3)
How long was the nineteenth century (2000) (3)
Chomsky's I-languages: Rethinking catastrophic changes (2019) (3)
Ellipses as Clitics (2000) (2)
Government: the long and short of it (1992) (2)
Modular Programming Languages: 7th Joint Modular Languages Conference, JMLC 2006Oxford, UK, September 13-15, 2006Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) (2006) (2)
Trace Theory and Explanation (1980) (2)
The ecology of languages (2007) (2)
Abstraction and performance: Commentary on Fischer (2004) (2)
Teaching the oxford Brookes formal specification module (2006) (2)
HOW TO TRIGGER ELEMENTS OF I-LANGUAGES (2015) (2)
Comments on the paper by Koopman (1994) (2)
How New Languages Emerge: The use and variation of grammars (2006) (2)
Motives for Language Change: Grammaticalisation: cause or effect? (2003) (2)
Acquisition and Learnability (2017) (2)
HOW TO TRIGGER ELEMENTS OF I-LANGUAGES (2015) (2)
James D. McCawley, The syntactic phenomena of English , vols 1 & 2. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1988. Pp. xliv + 768. (1991) (1)
Simple triggers and creoles (1991) (1)
Abstraction and performance (2007) (1)
Learning from creoles (2005) (1)
From Kaleidoscope to Common Sense (2002) (1)
HISTORICAL SYNTAX Types of explanation in history (2013) (1)
Matching parameters to simple triggers (1989) (1)
Brief response (2020) (1)
A First Course In Formal Specification: DesignPrinciples And Experience (1970) (1)
An example of sequences — the aircraft example again (1991) (1)
Ray S. Jackendoff, Semantic interpretation in generative grammar. Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1972. Pp. xii + 400. (1975) (1)
Obsolescence and universal grammar (1990) (1)
William Croft, Explaining language change: an evolutionary approach (Longman Linguistics Library). London: Longman, 2000. Pp. xv+287. (2002) (1)
How New Languages Emerge: New E-language cuing new I-languages (2006) (1)
Multilingualism everywhere (2011) (1)
The transmission of Anglo-Norman: Language history and language acquisition by Richard Ingham (review) (2014) (1)
Geoffrey Sampson, Making sense . Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. 215. (1982) (1)
A Piagetian Alternative? (1984) (1)
LibGuides: Pharmacy Reference Guide: Articles (2014) (0)
Cycles in language change ed. by Miriam Bouzouita et al. (review) (2021) (0)
LibGuides: Respirology & Respiratory Therapy: Welcome (2013) (0)
LibGuides: Respirology & Respiratory Therapy: Centre for Excellence in Mechanical Ventilation (under development) (2013) (0)
An Inclusive Budget Process (1994) (0)
How New Languages Emerge: A new historical linguistics (2006) (0)
LibGuides: Engineering: Infrastructure (2013) (0)
The logical problem of language acquisition. Edited by C. L. BAKER and JOHN J. MCCARTHY. (Series on cognitive theory and mental representation, 1.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1981. Pp. xii, 358. $27.50. (2016) (0)
The example extended (1991) (0)
Explaining Language Change (Book) (2002) (0)
IV. MOOD USES IN SUBORDINATE CLAUSES (1975) (0)
Using sets to describe a system — a simple example (1991) (0)
How New Languages Emerge: Some properties of language organs (2006) (0)
II. GREEK COMPLEMENTATION (1975) (0)
LibGuides: Engineering: St. Michael's Hospital Gender Identity and Gender Expression Policy (2013) (0)
LibGuides: Pharmacy Reference Guide: Books (2014) (0)
The Language Organ: Sound patterns in language (2002) (0)
The Language Organ: Phonetics and the I -linguistics of speech (2002) (0)
The Language Organ: Describing linguistic knowledge (2002) (0)
LibGuides: Traumatic Brain Injuries: St. Michael's Hospital Gender Identity and Gender Expression Policy (2013) (0)
Eulogy for 77,297 Victims. Jiří Weil (2015) (0)
LibGuides: Respirology & Respiratory Therapy: Community Organizations (2013) (0)
Extending a specification (1991) (0)
LibGuides: Respirology & Respiratory Therapy: Articles (2013) (0)
Clitic Climbing and Subject Inversion. (2003) (0)
LibGuides: Medline Training: Managing Your Results (2014) (0)
LibGuides: Pharmacy Reference Guide: Patient Education (2014) (0)
LibGuides: Traumatic Brain Injuries: Journals (2013) (0)
The Language Organ: References (2002) (0)
Re-thinking Variable Properties in Language: (2019) (0)
Review of G. Sampson Making Sense (1982) (0)
Atomic lexical entries (1999) (0)
An historic tongue: Studies in English linguistics in memory of Barbara Strang Ed. by Graham Nixon and John Honey (review) (2015) (0)
LibGuides: Graphic Medicine: Books (2019) (0)
A Seat Allocation System (1991) (0)
How New Languages Emerge: Languages emerging in children (2006) (0)
LibGuides: Engineering: Additional Resources (2013) (0)
Sets in Z (1991) (0)
The Language Organ: Language change (2002) (0)
Verb movement: Preface (1994) (0)
LibGuides: Mindfulness Meditation: iTunes Apps (2016) (0)
I. INTRODUCTION: THE PROBLEM (1975) (0)
Book reviewGrammatical theory: its limits and its possibilites: Frederick J. Newmeyer, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1983. xii + 193 pp. $25.00 (cloth), $10.00 (paperbound) (1985) (0)
The Language Organ: Language as a mental organ (2002) (0)
LibGuides: Critical Care: Welcome (2013) (0)
Climate Change and American Know-How (2009) (0)
LibGuides: Engineering: Contracts (2013) (0)
The Language Organ: The organic basis of language (2002) (0)
III. ABSTRACT VERBS IN GREEK (1975) (0)
Roger Fowler, Bob Hodge, Gunther Kress, and Tony Trew. Language and Control . London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1979. Pp. 224. £8.95. (1982) (0)
Concepts of destiny in Vergil's Aeneid (1980) (0)
Standardized training program for newly promoted supervisors (2015) (0)
Jürgen M. Meisel,Martin Elsig &Esther Rinke, Language acquisition and change: A morphosyntactic perspective .Edinburgh:Edinburgh University Press,2013. Pp. xiii + 202. (2014) (0)
The Language Organ: “Growing” a language (2002) (0)
Logic: predicate calculus (1991) (0)
Internal languages and the outside world (2006) (0)
LibGuides: Mindfulness Meditation: Books (2016) (0)
LibGuides: Pharmacy Reference Guide: Interlibrary Loan (2014) (0)
LibGuides: Mindfulness Meditation: Articles (2016) (0)
How New Languages Emerge: The eruption of new grammars (2006) (0)
Logic: propositional calculus (1991) (0)
International Collaboration in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2008) (0)
LibGuides: Traumatic Brain Injuries: Transgender Health Resources (2013) (0)
LibGuides: Traumatic Brain Injuries: Health Associations (2013) (0)
Response to David Lightfoot’s Review of The Emergence and Development o f SVO Patterning in Latin and French: Diachronic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives (2019) (0)
LibGuides: Mindfulness Meditation: For Professionals (2016) (0)
Review of B. Bauer Emergence and Development of SVO Patterning in Latin and French: Diachronic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives (1996) (0)
Natural selection‐itis (2011) (0)
The Language Organ: Studying the human language faculty (2002) (0)
LibGuides: Mindfulness Meditation: Health Benefits (2016) (0)
Historical syntax and linguistic theory (review) (2010) (0)
Internal languages and the outside world (2006) (0)
Ruth M. Kempson, Presupposition and the delimitation of semantics (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, 15). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. xi + 235; - Deirdre Wilson, Presuppositions and non-truth-conditional semantics . London: Academic Press, 1975. Pp. xiii + 161. (1976) (0)
Diachronic Grammar: The history of Old and Middle English subjectless constructions By Willy Elmer (1984) (0)
Modeling Language Change: Ontogenetic and Phylogenetic (1989) (0)
Verb movement: References (1994) (0)
Naomi S. Baron, Language acquisition and historical change (1980) (0)
Proceedings of the 7th joint conference on Modular Programming Languages (2006) (0)
LibGuides: Critical Care: Patient Education (2013) (0)
LibGuides: Critical Care: Ebooks (2013) (0)
Degree-0 Learnability (2018) (0)
Problems with variable properties in syntax (2021) (0)
Perceiving the Fictional World of Nesmrtelnost through Kundera's "I" (1998) (0)
An example of a Z specification document (1991) (0)
LibGuides: Critical Care: Interlibrary Loan (2013) (0)

This paper list is powered by the following services:

What Schools Are Affiliated With David W. Lightfoot?

David W. Lightfoot is affiliated with the following schools: