Department of Linguistics

Research

Raffaella Zanuttini, Héctor Campos, Elena Herburger and Paul Portner, ed. Cross-Linguistic Research in Syntax and Semantics: Negation, Tense and Clausal Architecture. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2006.
Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes. American English: Dialects and Variation, 2nd edition. Malden/Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
Natalie Schilling-Estes. "Dialect variation." Introduction to Language and Linguistics. Ed. Ralph W. Fasold and Jeffrey Connor-Linton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Natalie Schilling-Estes. "Fighting the tide (Smith Island, Maryland)." American Voices. Ed. Walt Wolfram and Ben Ward. Malden/Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
Natalie Schilling-Estes and Walt Wolfram. "Language evolution or dying traditions: The state of American dialects." American Voices. Ed. Walt Wolfram and Ben Ward. Malden/Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
Cristina Sanz. "The role of bilingual literacy in the acquisition of a third language." Multilingual Matters (2006).
Cristina Sanz & Beatriz Lado. "Research methodology in the study of third language acquisition." Encyclopedia of Language and Education (volume nine). Ed. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2006.
Cristina Sanz & Beatriz Lado. "Awareness and computer assisted instruction." Encyclopedia of Language and Education (volume four). Ed. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2006.
Cristina Sanz. "Review of Safont Jordà, Maria Pilar. Third Language Learners: Pragmatic Production and Awareness." Multilingual Matters (2005).
Cristina Sanz, ed. Mind and Context in Adult Second Language Acquisition. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2005.
Alison Mackey and Susan M. Gass. Second Language Research: Methodology and Design. Mahwah: New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005.
Cristina Sanz & Kara Morgan-Short. "Positive Evidence vs. Explicit Rule Presentation and Explicit Negative Feedback: A Computer-Assisted Study." Language Learning 54.1 (2004).
Cristina Sanz. "L’estat de la recerca sobre l’adquisició de terceres llengües a Catalunya. ." Caplletra 36 (2004).
Paul Portner and Raffaella Zanuttini. "The Semantics of Nominal Exclamatives." Ellipsis and Nonsentential Speech. Ed. R. Elugardo and R.J. Stainton . Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2004.
Paul Portner. What is Meaning? Fundamentals of Formal Semantics. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
Natalie Schilling-Estes. "Constructing ethnicity in interaction." Journal of Sociolinguistics 8.2 (2004): 163-195.
Natalie Schilling-Estes. "Exploring intertextuality in the sociolinguistic interview." Sociolinguistic Variation: Critical Reflections. Ed. Carmen Fought. New York/ Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Miok Pak, Paul Portner and Raffaella Zanuttini. "Deriving Clause Types: Focusing on Korean." Proceedings of Linguistic Society of Korea 2004. Ed. xxx. Yonsei Institute of Language and Information Studies: Hanshin Publishing Company, 2004.
David Lightfoot. "Cuing a different grammar." Handbook on the history of English. Ed. A van Kemenade and B. Los. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
David Lightfoot. "Plato’s problem, UG and the language organ." Companion to Noam Chomsky. Ed. J. McGilvray. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
David Lightfoot. "Learning from Creoles." Lingua (2004).
Cristina Sanz. "Review of Koike, Dale A., & Carol A. Klee. Lingüística Aplicada: Adquisición del español como segunda lengua." Modern Language Journal (2004).
Cristina Sanz. "Review of M.T. Turell (Ed.) Multilingualism in Spain." International Journal of the Sociology of Language (2003).
Cristina Sanz. "Review of Jasone Cenoz, Britta Hufeisen & Ulrike Jessner (Eds.) Cross-Linguistic Influence in Language Acquisition. Psycholinguistic Perspectives." Modern Language Journal (2003).
Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes. "Language change in ’conservative’ dialects: The case of past tense ’be’ in Southern enclave communities." American Speech (special issue on Language Variation in the American South, ed. by Connie Eble) 78.2 (2003): 208-227.
Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes. "Parallel development and alternative restructuring: The case of ’weren’t’ intensification." Social Dialectology. Ed. David Britain and Jenny Cheshire. Philadelphia/Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2003.
Carolyn Temple Adger and Natalie Schilling-Estes. 2003. African American English: Structure and Clinical Implications (CD-ROM and manual). Rockville, MD: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
David Lightfoot. "The development of grammars ." The 2nd State-of-the-Article Book. Ed. L. Cheng & R. Sybesma. Berlin: Mouton de Gruter, 2003.
David Lightfoot. "More myths." Journal of Linguistics 38.3 (2003).
David Lightfoot. "Grammaticalization: Cause of effect?." Motives for language change. Ed. R. Hickey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
David Lightfoot. "Formal grammar." Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2nd edition. Ed. W. Frawley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Paul Portner. "The Temporal Semantics and Modal Pragmatics of the Perfect." Linguistics and Philosophy 26 (2003): 459-510.
Cecilia Poletto and Raffaella Zanuttini. "Making Imperatives: Evidence from Central Rhaetoromance." The Syntax of Italian Dialects. Ed. C. Tortora. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Raffaella Zanuttini and Paul Portner. "Exclamative Clauses: At the Syntax-Semantics Interface." Language 79.1 (2003): 39-81.
Cristina Sanz. "Computer Delivered Implicit vs. Explicit Feedback in Processing Instruction." Processing Instruction.. Ed. Bill VanPatten. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2003.
David Lightfoot, ed. Syntactic effects of morphological change. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Stephen Anderson and David Lightfoot . The language organ: Linguistics as cognitive physiology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
David Lightfoot. "Myths and the prehistory of grammars." Journal of Linguistics 38.1 (2002): 113-136.
J.K. Chambers, Peter Trudgill, and Natalie Schilling-Estes, ed. The Handbook of Language Variation and Change. Malden, MA/ Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2002.
Introduction to N. Chomsky Syntactic structures (2nd edition). Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin (2002).
David Lightfoot. "Grammatical approaches to syntactic change." Handbook of historical linguistics. Ed. R. Janda & B. Joseph. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
David Lightfoot. "Language acquisition and language change." Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Ed. Lynn Nadel. London: Macmillan, 2002.
Natalie Schilling-Estes. "American English social dialect variation and gender." Journal of English Linguistics (Special issue on Language and Gender, ed. by Janet Holmes) 30.2 (2002): 122-137.
Natalie Schilling-Estes. "On the nature of isolated and post-isolated dialects: Innovation, variation, and differentiation." Journal of Sociolinguistics (Special issue on Investigating Change and Variation through Dialect Contact, ed. by Lesley Milroy) 6.1 (2002): 64-85.
Natalie Schilling-Estes. "Investigating stylistic variation." Handbook of Language Variation and Change. Ed. J.K. Chambers, Peter Trudgill, and Natalie Schilling-Estes. Malden/Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
Cristina Sanz. "Review of Istvan Kecskes & Tünde Papp." Modern Language Journal (2002).
Cristina Sanz, Falcón, MacGregor. "Is Killing Two Birds with One Stone Possible? Explicit Instruction on Spanish Word Order and the Spread of Knowledge." Revista E/LE (2001).
Raffaella Zanuttini. "Sentential Negation." The Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory. Ed. M. Baltin and C. Collins. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell , 2001.
Michael Ullman. "A neurocognitive perspective on language: the declarative/procedural model." Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2 (2001): 717-726.
Michael Ullman. "The neural basis of lexicon and grammar in first and second language: The declarative/procedural model." Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 4.1 (2001): 105-122.
Cristina Sanz, ed. “Cognition & Spanish Bilinguals” a special volume of Spanish Applied Linguistics.. Champaign: University of Illinois, 2000.
David Lightfoot. "The spandrels of the linguistic genotype." The evolutionary emergence of language. Ed. J. Hurford, C. Knight, & M. Studdert-Kennedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
David Lightfoot. "Ellipses as clitics." Ellipsis in conjunction. Ed. K. Schwabe & N. Zhang. Tubingen: Niemeyer, 2000.
David Lightfoot and Susan Edwards. "Intact grammars but intermittent access." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23.1 (2000).
David Lightfoot. "Quanto tempo durou o siculo XIX? (How long was the 19th century?)." Homenagem a Mary Kato. Ed. C. Galves, J. Nunes & E. Raposo. : D.E.L.T.A., 2000.
Natalie Schilling-Estes. "Investigating intra-ethnic differentiation: /ay/ in Lumbee Native American English." Language Variation and Change 12.2 (2000): 141-174.
Paul Portner and Raffaella Zanuttini. "The Force of Negation in Wh Exclamatives and Interrogatives." Negation and Polarity: Syntactic and Semantic Perspectives. Ed. Laurence Horn and Yasuhiko Kato. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Raffaella Zanuttini and Paul Portner. "The Characterization of Exclamative Clauses in Paduan." Language 76.1 (2000): 123-132.
Cristina Sanz. "Bilingual education enhances third language acquisition: Evidence from Catalonia." Applied Psycholinguistics 21 (2000): 23-44.
Cristina Sanz. "What form to focus on? Linguistics, Language Awareness, and the Education of L2 Teachers." Meaning and Form: Multiple Perspectives (2000).
Cristina Sanz. "Implementing LIBRA for the design of experimental research in SLA." Language Learning and Technology 13.2 (2000): 27-31.
Cristina Sanz. "Review of David Wolfe’s Spanish Gender and the Brain." La Crónica (2000).
John R. Rickford and Natalie Schilling-Estes. 2000. Social dialect notes: A series of notes attached to entries in the American Heritage Dictionary, 4th edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin..
C. Sanz; E. Bates; E. Bialystok; A. Costa; A. Hernández; J. Altarriba; C. Pérez; M. Siguan; J. Vaid. "Cognition & Spanish Bilinguals." Spanish Applied Linguistics 4.2 (2000).
Critina Sanz, Ron Leow, ed. Spanish Applied Linguistics at the Turn of the Millenium. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 2000.
C. Sanz, T. Greenslade and L. Bouden. "A conceptual replication study of VanPatten 1991." Spanish Applied Linguistics 3 (1999): 65-90.
Natalie Schilling-Estes and Walt Wolfram. "Alternative models for dialect death: Dissipation vs. concentration." Language 75.3 (1999): 486-521.
Walt Wolfram, Kirk Hazen, and Natalie Schilling-Estes. 1999. Dialect Change and Maintenance on the Outer Banks: Publication of the American Dialect Society 81. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press..
David Lightfoot. "Creoles and cues." Language creation and change: Creolization, diachrony and development. Ed. M. DeGraff. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.
David Lightfoot. "Language variation and change." The MIT encyclopedia of the cognitive sciences. Ed. F. Keil & R. Wilson. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.
David Lightfoot. "Atomic lexical entries." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22.6 (1999): 1029-30.
David Lightfoot with Stephen R. Anderson. "The human language faculty as an organ." Annual Review of Physiology 62 (1999): 697-722.
David Lightfoot. The development of language: Acquisition, change and evolution. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.
David Lightfoot. "The developmenet of grammars." GLOT International (1998).
Natalie Schilling-Estes. "Investigating ’self-concious’ speech: The performance register in Ocracoke English." Language in Society 27 (1998): 53-83.
David Lightfoot. "Promises, promises: General learning algorithms." Mind and Language 13.4 (1998): 582-587.
Cristina Sanz, B. VanPatten. "On Input Processing, Processing Instruction, and the nature of replication tasks: A response to M. Rafael Salaberry." The Canadian Modern Language Review 54 (1998): 263-273.
Cristina Sanz. "Experimental tasks in SLA research: Amount of production, modality, memory, and production processes." Contemporary perspectives on the acquisition of Spanish. Ed. Glass, W.R. and A.T. Pérez-Lerroux . Somerville: Cascadilla Press, 1997.
Cristina Sanz. "Bilinguals beat monolinguals 3-1." EuroSLA 7, a selection of papers. Ed. Muñoz, C. & L. Díaz . Barcelona, Spain: Publicacions de la Generalitat de Catalunya, 1997.
Raffaella Zanuttini. Negation and Clausal Structure: A Comparative Study of Romance Languages. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes. Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks: The Story of the Ocracoke Brogue. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
David Lightfoot. "Catastrophic change and learning theory." Lingua 100 (1997): 171-92.
David Lightfoot. "Shifting trigger and diachronic reanalyses." Parameters of morphosyntactic change. Ed. A. van Kemenade & N. Vincent . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
David Lightfoot. "Reply to Bauer." Language 73.2 (1997).
Cristina Sanz. " The problem of variation in SLA theory and research." Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics: Linguistics, Language Acquisition, and Language Variation: Current Trends and Future Prospects. Ed. J. E. Alatis, C.A. Straehle, M. Ronkin, & B. Gallenberger. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1996.
Cristina Sanz, M.J. González. "Ser and estar in Tortosí Catalan: Language Use, Language Variation, and Language Change." Sintagma 7 (1995): 5-25.
Cristina Sanz, B. VanPatten. "From Input to Output: Processing Instruction in Communicative Tasks." Second Language Acquisition Theory and Pedagogy. Ed. Eckman, F. R., D. Highland, P. W. Lee, J. Mileham, & R. R. Weber. Hillsdale, NY: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. , 1995.
David Lightfoot. "Languages." Triumph of discovery: Scientific American 150 Anniversary Book. Ed. Scientific American. New York1: Holt & Co., 1995.
David Lightfoot. "Grammars for peopls." Journal of Linguistics 31.2 (1995): 393-99.
David Lightfoot. "Degree-0 learnability." Syntactic theory and first language acquisition: Crosslinguistic perspectives. Vol 2: Binding, dependencies and learnability. Ed. B. Lust, G. Hermon & J. Kornfilt. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1994.
Norbert Hornstein and David Lightfoot, ed. Verb movement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
David Lightfoot. "Why UG needs a learning theory: Triggering verb movement." Historical linguistics: Problems and perspectives. Ed. C. Jones. London: Longman, 1993.
David Lightfoot. "Uma ciencia da historia." D.E.L.T.A. 9.2 (1993): 275-294.
Cristina Sanz, M.S. Fernandez. "Non-native processing of verbal morphology in Spanish." MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 16 (1992): 155-169.
David Lightfoot. "Government: the long and short of it." Journal of Linguistics 28.1 (1992): 185-197.
Cristina Sanz. "Actituds envers les varietats bilingüe i monolingüe del castellà a Barcelona." Catalan Review 5 (1991): 121-136.
Cristina Sanz. "Diglòssia a Catalunya? Teoria i realitat als 60 i al present." Sintagma 3 (1991): 49-61.
N. Hornstein & David Lightfoot. "The nature of lexical government." Principles and parameters in comparative syntax. Ed. R. Freidin. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991.
David Lightfoot. "Simple triggers and creoles." Behavorial & Brain Sciences 14.2 (1991).
David Lightfoot. "Subjacency and sex." Language and Communication 11.1 (1991): 67-69.
David Lightfoot. "Formal grammar." Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (1991).
David Lightfoot. How to set parameters: Arguments from language change. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991.
David Lightfoot. "Obsolescence and Universal Grammar." Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics. Ed. S. Adamson, V. Law, N. Vincent & S. Wright. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1990.
David Lightfoot. "Modelling language development." Mind and cofnition. Ed. W. Lycan. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990.
David Lightfoot. "Old heads and new heads." Grammar in Progress: GLOW studies for Henk van Riemsdijk. Ed. J. Mascaro & M. Nespor. Dordrecht: Foris, 1990.
David Lightfoot. "The child’s trigger experience: Degree-0 learnability (target article)." Behavioral & Brain Sciences 12.2 (1989): 321-334.
David Lightfoot. "Matching simple triggers to parameters (Author’s response)." Behavioral & Brain Sciences 12.2 (1989): 364-375.
David Lightfoot. "Modelling language change: Ontogenetic and phylogenetic." Newton to Aristotle: Toward a theory of models for living systems. Ed. J. Casti & A. Karlqvist. Cambridge, MA: Birkhauser Boston, 1989.
David Lightfoot. "Creoles, triggers and Universal Grammar." On Language: A Festschrift for R.P. Stockwell. Ed. C. Duncan-Rose & T. Vennemann. London: Routledge, 1988.
David Lightfoot. "Syntactic change." Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey. Ed. F. Newmeyer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
David Lightfoot. "N. Chomsky Barriers." Language 64.2 (1988): 366-383.
David Lightfoot. "Predication and PRO." Language 63.1 (1987): 23-52.
David Lightfoot (with J. Aoun, N. Hornstein & A. Weinberg). "Two types of locality." Linguistic Inquiry 18.4 (1987): 537-77.
David Lightfoot. "Language and the human intellect." Proteus: A Journal of Ideas 2.2 (1985): 1-8.
David Lightfoot. "A mind for languages." Arts and Humanities Magazine 2 (1985): 19-22.
David Lightfoot. "A brief response." Linguistic Inquiry 17.1 (1985): 111-13.
J. Aoun and David Lightfoot . "Government and contraction." Linguistic Inquiry 15.3 (1984): 465-73.
David Lightfoot. "The relative richness of triggers and the bioprogram." The Behavorial and Brain Sciences 7.2 (1984).
David Lightfoot. "A Piagetian alternative?." Canadian Journal of Linguistics 29.2 (1984): 131-4.
David Lightfoot. The language lottery: Toward a biology of grammars. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1982.
Norbert Hornstein and David Lightfoot, ed. Explanation in linguistics: The logical problem of language acquisition. London: Longman, 1981.
David Lightfoot. "Explaining syntactic change." Explanation in linguistics. Ed. Hornstein & Lightfoot. London: Longman, 1981.
David Lightfoot. "A reply to some critics." Lingua 55.4 (1981): 351-368.
David Lightfoot. "Methods and metaworries." Times Literary Supplement (1980).
David Lightfoot. "Trace theory and explanation." Current approaches to syntax [Syntax and semantics vol. 13]. Ed. E. Moravcsik & J. Wirth. New York: Academic Press, 1980.
David Lightfoot. "The history of NP Movement." Lexical grammer. Ed. T. Hoekstra et al. Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1980.
David Lightfoot. "Sur la reconstruction d’une proto-syntaxe." Languages 60 (1980): 109-123.
David Lightfoot. "Rule classes and syntactic change." Linguistic Inquiry 10.1 (1979): 83-108.
David Lightfoot. "Mechanisms of syntactic change." Language 55.2 (1979): 381-395.
David Lightfoot. "Explaining syntactic change." Montreal Working Papers in Linguistics 11 (1978).
David Lightfoot. "Syntactic change and the autonomy thesis." Journal of Linguistics 13.2 (1977): 191-216.
David Lightfoot. "On traces and conditions on rules." Formal Syntax. Ed. P. Culicover, T. Wasow & A. Akmajian. New York: Academic Press, 1977.
David Lightfoot. "A re-structuring rule." Linguistic Inquiry 9.4 (1977): 217-219.
David Lightfoot. "The theoretical implications of Subject Raising." Foundations of Language 14.2 (1976): 257-286.
David Lightfoot. "The base component as a locus of syntactic change." Current progress in historical linguistics. Ed. W. Christie. North Holland: Amsterdam, 1976.
David Lightfoot. "Diachronic syntax: extraposition and deep structure re-analyses." Proceedings of the North East Linguistics Society . Ed. E. Kaisse. : Harvard University, 1975.
David Lightfoot. Natural logic and the Greek moods. The Hague: Mouton, 1975.
David Lightfoot. "Indeterminacy in syntax." Canadian Journal of Linguistics 19.2 (1974): 150-166.
David Lightfoot. "On be+ing interpreted." Glossa 8.1 (1974): 193-197.
David Lightfoot and Y-C. Morin. "La place de la semantique dans une grammaire generative: ce qui fait se battre les linguistes." Montreal Working Papers in Linguistics 2 (1974): 93-116.
David Lightfoot, ed. The diachronic analysis of English modals. 1974. Amsterdam: North Holland.
David Lightfoot, ed. Abstract verbs and the development of the Greek mood system. 1972. Bologna, Italy: Proceedings of the XIth World Congress of Linguists.
David Lightfoot. "Notes on entailment and universal quantifiers." Papers in Linguistics 5.2 (1972): 270-299.
David Lightfoot. "Presuppositions dans la grammaire transformationelle." Lingua 31 (1972): 177-200.
David Lightfoot. "History can be bunk." Montreal Star (1971).
David Lightfoot. "Entailment and universal quantifiers." Cahiers linguistiques d’Ottawa 2 (1971): 83-96.
David Lightfoot. An etymological enquiry into Plymouth’s place-names. : Plymouth Municipal Libraries, 1963.

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