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More Myths
(Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Biology and language : a response to Everett (2005)
(Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Two Types of Locality
(The MIT Press, 1987)
Minimizing Government: Deletion as Cliticization
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2006)
The rigors of the Minimalist Program eliminate movement operations, traces, and 1980s-style conditions of government. This article emphasizes poverty-of-stimulus problems, reviews lexical government effects, and captures ...
Historical Syntax : Types of explanation in history
(Linguistic Society of America, 2013-12)
This article examines the ways in which explanation has been achieved in scientific work on language change over the last two hundred years. Explanations have come in many forms and at many levels and are greatly influenced ...
The Ecology of Languages
(Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2007)
This paper discusses the life-cycle of languages: languages die, new languages
are born, and languages undergo radical changes in form and structure. This paper
considers three changes in the history of English: loss of ...
Multilingualism everywhere
(Cambridge University Press, 2011)
Explaining language change: an evolutionary approach
(Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Book review of "Explaining language change: an evolutionary approach" by William Croft.
Review of G. Sampson Making Sense
(Cambridge University Press, 1982)
Review of Geoffrey Sampson, Making sense. Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. 215.
Rule Generalization and Optionality in Language Change
(Linguistic Society of America, 1987)
Review of Rule generalization and optionality in language change. By S. J. Keyser and Wayne O'Neil. (Studies in generative grammar, 23.) Dordrecht: Foris, 1985. Pp. vii, 153.