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- PhD Linguistics University of Chicago
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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)
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