American linguist
David Lightfoot |
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Born | (1945-02-10) February 10, 1945 (age 79) |
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Alma mater | University of Michigan |
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Discipline | Linguist |
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Sub-discipline | Syntactic theory, language acquisition, language change |
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David William Lightfoot (born February 10, 1945) is an American linguist who served as an assistant director of the National Science Foundation from 2005 to 2009.[1][2] He is a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University.[3]
Books
- The language lottery: toward a biology of grammars
- Born to Parse: How Children Select Their Languages
- How to Set Parameters: Arguments From Language Change
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