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  Rule Classes and Syntactic Change 

  Lightfoot, David, 1945- (The MIT Press, 1979)
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  The Ecology of Languages 

  Lightfoot, David, 1945- (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 ...
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  Explaining language change: an evolutionary approach 

  Lightfoot, David, 1945- (Cambridge University Press, 2002)

  Book review of "Explaining language change: an evolutionary approach" by William Croft.