Nina Hyams
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Nina Hyams's Degrees
- Bachelors Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nina Hyams is a distinguished research professor emeritus in linguistics at the University of California in Los Angeles. Education and career Hyams received her PhD in linguistics in 1983 from Graduate Center of the City University of New York, with a dissertation entitled, The acquisition of parameterized grammars. It was published by Springer in 1986, and it remains a widely cited and influential classic.
Nina Hyams's Published Works
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- An Introduction to Language (1984) (951)
- Language Acquisition and the Theory of Parameters (1986) (844)
- Aspects of root infinitives (1998) (270)
- On the grammatical basis of null subjects in child language (1993) (268)
- The Underspecification of Functional Categories in Early Grammar (1996) (181)
- The Genesis of Clausal Structure (1992) (91)
- The Development of " Long-Distance Anaphora ": A Cross-Linguistic Comparison With Special References to Icelandic (1990) (87)
- On the independence and interdependence of syntactic and morphological properties: English aspectualcome andgo (1993) (72)
- Morphological Uniformity and the Setting of the Null Subject Parameter (1987) (69)
- The acquisition of parameterized grammars (1983) (64)
- The Theory of Parameters and Syntactic Development (1987) (63)
- VP, Null Arguments and COMP Projections (1994) (62)
- The Null Subject Parameter in Language Acquisition (1989) (56)
- Missing Subjects in Early Child Language (2011) (54)
- Mimimality Effects in Children's Passives (2015) (53)
- Reflexivization and Logophoricity: Evidence From the Acquisition of Icelandic (1992) (44)
- Clausal structure in child Greek: A reply to Varlokosta, Vainikka and Rohrbacher and a reanalysis (2002) (43)
- Aspectual Effects on Interpretation in Early Grammar (2007) (40)
- The Acquisition of Syntax (2017) (37)
- Morphosyntactic development in Italian and its relevance to parameter-setting models: comments on the paper by Pizzuto & Caselli (1992) (29)
- The Acquisition of Syntactically Encoded Evidentiality (2014) (28)
- Looking for the universal core of the RI stage (2006) (27)
- Missing heads in child language (1996) (25)
- Acquisition of the Malagasy voicing system: implications for the adult grammar (2006) (24)
- Child Non-Finite Clauses and the Mood-Aspect Connection (2005) (23)
- Children’s Grammar of Null Subjects: Evidence from Comprehension (2012) (20)
- The morphosyntax of mood in early grammar with special reference to Swahili (2006) (18)
- Aspects of the acquisition of object control and ECM-Type verbs in European Portuguese (2016) (18)
- Evidence, Analogy and Passive Knowledge: Comments on Lakshmanan (1991) (16)
- A Principles-and-Parameters Approach to the Study of Child Language. (1988) (15)
- Young Children Are Frozen: Reflexive Clitics and the Universal Freezing Hypothesis (2006) (14)
- The Acquisition of Inflection: A Parameter-Setting Approach (2008) (13)
- On the Role of Aspect in Determining Finiteness and Temporal Interpretation in Early Grammar (2004) (12)
- Semantically-Based Child Grammars: Some Empirical Inadequacies. (1984) (11)
- The Effects of Syntax on the Acquisition of Evidentiality (2012) (10)
- Underspecification and Modularity in Early Syntax: A formalist perspective on language acquisition (1999) (10)
- Core and Peripheral Grammar and the Acquisition of Inflection. (1986) (10)
- INTRODUCTION TO THE ACQUISITION OF FINITENESS IN CAPEVERDEAN (2007) (10)
- Parameters in language acquisition and language contact (2015) (9)
- The Core/Periphery Distinction in Language Acquisition. (1987) (9)
- On the Scope of Negation : More evidence for early parameter setting (2004) (8)
- The Form and Interpretation of Finite and non-Finite Verbs in Swahili (2002) (7)
- Children ’ s comprehension of syntactically-encoded evidentiality * (2015) (6)
- Where Ellipsis Meets Wh-movement: Sluicing in early grammar (2017) (6)
- Eventivity effects in early grammar: The case of non-finite verbs (2012) (6)
- The acquisition of infinitival complements: a reply to Bloom, Tackeff & Lahey (1984) (5)
- Language acquisition: Learnability, maturation, and the fixing of parameters (1988) (4)
- The Interpretation and Acquisition of Italian Impersonal SI (1986) (4)
- Seven Not-So-Trivial Trivia of Language Acquistion: Comments on Wolfgang Klein (1991) (4)
- Intervention Effects in Early Grammar: Evidence from Sluicing (2018) (3)
- Does Morphology Drive Syntax ? Evidence from L 1 acquisition (2014) (3)
- Negation ’ : A preferential looking paradigm study of early knowledge of sentential and anaphoric negation (2005) (3)
- The Online Processing of French Reflexives : Experimental Evidence for an Unaccusative Analysis (2011) (3)
- Underspecification and Modularity in Early Syntax (1999) (3)
- Ellipsis meets wh-movement : sluicing in early (2017) (2)
- The AG/PRO Parameter in Early Grammars (1986) (2)
- Structural intervention effects in the acquisition of sluicing (2020) (2)
- FINITENESS AND TEMPORAL INTERPRETATION IN EARLY GRAMMAR: THE ROLE OF LEXICAL ASPECT (2005) (2)
- The structure of silence: A look at children’s comprehension of sluicing (2018) (2)
- Commentary: Null Subjects in Child Language and the Implications of Cross-Linguistic Variation (2018) (1)
- Syntactic structure and silence: A minimalist theory of syntax-phonology interface (2010) (1)
- Late Intervention Effects in the Acquisition of Mandarin Sluice-like Constructions (2020) (0)
- One Is the Loneliest Number: The Acquisition of Spanish Indefinite Un (2016) (0)
- Discontinuous Models of Linguistic Development (1986) (0)
- Aspectual Effects 1 Aspectual Effects on Interpretation in Early Grammar (2009) (0)
- APS volume 31 issue 4 Cover and Back matter (2010) (0)
- On the Left Periphery of German Subordinate Clauses 239 (2015) (0)
- On children’s late acquisition of raising seem and control promise (2020) (0)
- Processing of Relative Clauses in Infants 1 (2015) (0)
- APS volume 30 issue 4 Cover and Back matter (2009) (0)
- Further Issues in Acquisition Theory (1986) (0)
- The Null Subject Phenomenon (1986) (0)
- Linguistic Theory and Syntactic Development (1986) (0)
- Some Comparative Data (1986) (0)
- Early emergence of linguistic knowledge: How early? (1991) (0)
- Connectedness : Papers by and for Sarah VanWagenen UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics (2014) (0)
- Comments on the acquisition of complementation in Portuguese (2018) (0)
- On the learnability of implicit arguments (2019) (0)
- Marc-Ariel Friedemann & Luigi Rizzi (eds.), The acquisition of syntax: studies in comparative developmental linguistics . London: Longman, 2000. Pp. viii+326. (2001) (0)
- Learning unaccusativity: Evidence for split intransitivity in child Spanish (2023) (0)
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