David Lightfoot

6.0k citations
73 papers · 2.3k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 22

David Lightfoot

61 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

Principles of diachronic syntax4511979202619942010100200300400

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David Lightfoot
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  • Linguistics and Language 825
  • Language and Linguistics 1.6k
  • Cultural Studies 460
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology 499
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 475
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The 20 scholars most cited alongside David Lightfoot, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1
Variable Properties in Language: Their Nature and Acquisition
20198
2
Discovering new variable properties without parameters
20177
3 20164
4 20141
5 20132
6 201021
7
Explaining Language Change (Book)
20021
8 200271
9 199620
10 199422
11 19942
12 19884
13 198788
14
A Brief Response
19861
15 198625
16
Government and contraction
198437
17
Explanation in linguistics : the logical problem of language acquisition
1981220
18 1979101
19 19778
20
Natural Logic and the Moods of Classical Greek.
19712

About David Lightfoot

David Lightfoot is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language, Cultural Studies, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, having authored 73 papers that have together received 2.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (33 papers), Language and cultural evolution (12 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (10 papers), Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (9 papers), Language Development and Disorders (9 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (7 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (7 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Linguistics and Language (825 citations), Language and Linguistics (1.6k citations), Cultural Studies (460 citations), Developmental and Educational Psychology (499 citations) and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (475 citations). David Lightfoot has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Norbert Hornstein, Stephen R. Anderson, Joseph Aoun, Amy Weinberg, Marit Westergaard, G. S. V. Raghavan, F.R. van de Voort, Hosahalli S. Ramaswamy, Sabine Iatridou and Höskuldur Þráinsson. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Linguistics, Language, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique and Lingua.

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