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D. Lightfoot

h-index: 30
Works: 195
Citations: 5,573

Most-cited papers

Explaining language change: an evolutionary approach
D. Lightfoot
2002750 citations
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Global agricultural intensification during climate change: a role for genomics
M. Abberton, J. Batley, A. Bentley, J. Bryant +26 more
2015Plant Biotechnology Journal230 citations Open access
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How New Languages Emerge
D. Lightfoot
200684 citations
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English: The language of the Vikings by Joseph Embley Emonds and Jan Terje Faarlund (review)
D. Lightfoot
201666 citations
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Language acquisition and language change.
D. Lightfoot
2006Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science54 citations
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Language Acquisition and Language Change: Inter-relationships
D. Lightfoot, M. Westergaard
2007Language and Linguistics Compass50 citations
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Modular Programming Languages, 7th Joint Modular Languages Conference, JMLC 2006, Oxford, UK, September 13-15, 2006, Proceedings
D. Lightfoot, Clemens Szyperski
2006Joint Modular Languages Conference50 citations
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Science and Engineering Doctorate Awards: 2004
S. Hill, D. Lightfoot, L. Carlson, M. Frase
200630 citations
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Biology and language : a consideration of alternatives 1
S. Anderson, D. Lightfoot
200526 citations
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Plato’s Problem, UG, and the language organ
D. Lightfoot
200519 citations
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Minimizing government: Deletion as cliticization
D. Lightfoot
200614 citations Open access
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Social, Behavioral and Economic Research in the Federal Context
D. Lightfoot, C. Bachrach, D. Abrams, Joseph Kielman +1 more
200913 citations
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Cuing a New Grammar
D. Lightfoot
200813 citations
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Biology and language: a response to Everett (2005)
S. Anderson, D. Lightfoot
2006Journal of Linguistics12 citations Open access
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More myths
D. Lightfoot
2002Journal of Linguistics12 citations Open access
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The Language Organ: Contents
S. Anderson, D. Lightfoot
200211 citations
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Born to Parse
D. Lightfoot
20209 citations Open access
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Discovering new variable properties without parameters
D. Lightfoot
20179 citations
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Types of explanation in history
D. Lightfoot
20139 citations
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Interstate Migration Patterns of Recent Recipients of Bachelor ’ s and Master ’ s Degrees in Science and Engineering
D. Lightfoot, L. Carlson, M. Frase
20059 citations
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Variable Properties in Language: Their Nature and Acquisition
D. Lightfoot, J. Havenhill
20198 citations
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Verbs and diachronic syntax: A comparative history of English and French By Ian G. Roberts (review)
D. Lightfoot
20158 citations
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Fatal haemorrhage from a caput medusae: A differential to a stabbing
K. Hoi, Emilio D. Mignanelli, D. Lightfoot
2007Emergency Medicine Australasia8 citations
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Grammatical Approaches to Syntactic Change
D. Lightfoot
20087 citations
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Explaining matrix/subordinate domain discrepancies
D. Lightfoot
20124 citations
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Zonnon Language Report
J. Gutknecht, B. Kirk, D. Lightfoot
20094 citations
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Traditional language change
D. Lightfoot, D. Lightfoot
20064 citations
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Chomsky's I-languages: Rethinking catastrophic changes
D. Lightfoot
2019Acta Linguistica Academica3 citations
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Imperfect Transmission and Discontinuity
D. Lightfoot, Adam Ledgeway, I. Roberts
20173 citations
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Social and behavioral scientists building cyberinfrastructure
D. Lightfoot
2007First Monday3 citations Open access
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Acquisition and Learnability
D. Lightfoot, Adam Ledgeway, I. Roberts
20172 citations
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HOW TO TRIGGER ELEMENTS OF I-LANGUAGES
D. Lightfoot, D. Lightfoot
20152 citations
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Teaching the oxford Brookes formal specification module
Ian Bayley, D. Lightfoot, Clare E. Martin
2006World Congress on Formal Methods2 citations Open access
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Abstraction and performance: Commentary on Fischer
D. Lightfoot
20042 citations
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Motives for Language Change: Grammaticalisation: cause or effect?
D. Lightfoot
20032 citations
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William Croft, Explaining language change: an evolutionary approach (Longman Linguistics Library). London: Longman, 2000. Pp. xv+287.
D. Lightfoot
2002Journal of Linguistics2 citations
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The transmission of Anglo-Norman: Language history and language acquisition by Richard Ingham (review)
D. Lightfoot
20141 citations
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HISTORICAL SYNTAX Types of explanation in history
D. Lightfoot
20131 citations
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Multilingualism everywhere
D. Lightfoot
2011Bilingualism: Language and Cognition1 citations Open access
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Abstraction and performance
D. Lightfoot
20071 citations
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The ecology of languages
D. Lightfoot
20071 citations Open access
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How New Languages Emerge: New E-language cuing new I-languages
D. Lightfoot
20061 citations
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How New Languages Emerge: The use and variation of grammars
D. Lightfoot
20061 citations
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Learning from creoles
D. Lightfoot
20051 citations
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From Kaleidoscope to Common Sense
D. Lightfoot
20021 citations
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Cycles in language change ed. by Miriam Bouzouita et al. (review)
D. Lightfoot
20210 citations
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Problems with variable properties in syntax
D. Lightfoot
2021Cadernos de Linguística0 citations Open access
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Re-thinking Variable Properties in Language:
D. Lightfoot, J. Havenhill
2019Variable Properties in Language0 citations
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LibGuides: Graphic Medicine: Books
D. Lightfoot
20190 citations
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Response to David Lightfoot’s Review of The Emergence and Development o f SVO Patterning in Latin and French: Diachronic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives
D. Lightfoot
20190 citations
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