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      Born to Parse: How Children Select Their Languages

      David W. Lightfoot

      An argument that children are born to assign structures to their ambient language, yielding a view of language variation not based on parameters defined at UG

      In this book, David…

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      Syntactic Effects of Morphological Change

      This work presents the latest thinking on the nature and causes of language change. The authors consider how far changes in morphology (e.g. inflectional word endings) cause changes in syntax…

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      Syntactic Effects of Morphological Change

      This work presents the latest thinking on the nature and causes of language change. The authors consider how far changes in morphology (e.g. inflectional word endings) cause changes in syntax…

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      Syntactic Structures

      Noam Chomsky

      Noam Chomsky’s book is a serious attempt to construct within the tradition of scientific theory-construction a comprehensive theory of language which may be understood in the same sense that a…

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      The Language Organ: Linguistics as Cognitive Physiology

      Stephen R. Anderson (Yale University, Connecticut),David W. Lightfoot (Georgetown University, Washington DC)

      Challenging and original, The Language Organ treats human language as the manifestation of a faculty of the mind, a mental organ whose nature is determined by human biology and whose…

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      The Language Organ: Linguistics as Cognitive Physiology

      Stephen R. Anderson (Yale University, Connecticut),David W. Lightfoot (Georgetown University, Washington DC)

      Challenging and original, The Language Organ treats human language as the manifestation of a faculty of the mind, a mental organ whose nature is determined by human biology and whose…

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      Variable Properties in Language: Their Nature and Acquisition

      This edited volume, based on papers presented at the 2017 Georgetown University Round Table on Language and Linguistics (GURT), approaches the study of language variation from a variety of angles…

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      Variable Properties in Language: Their Nature and Acquisition

      This edited volume, based on papers presented at the 2017 Georgetown University Round Table on Language and Linguistics (GURT), approaches the study of language variation from a variety of angles…

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