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Born to Parse

How Children Select Their Languages

by David W. Lightfoot

ISBN: 9780262044097

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 25, 2020

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.

Language Acquisition and Development

A Generative Introduction

by Misha Becker and Kamil Ud Deen

ISBN: 9780262043588

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 10, 2020

An introduction to the study of children's language development that provides a uniquely accessible perspective on generative/universal grammar–based approaches.

Features of Person

From the Inventory of Persons to Their Morphological Realization

by Peter Ackema and Ad Neeleman

ISBN: 9780262535618

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 23, 2018

A proposal that person features do not have inherent content but are used to navigate a “person space” at the heart of every pronominal expression.

The Price of Linguistic Productivity

How Children Learn to Break the Rules of Language

by Charles Yang

ISBN: 9780262035323

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 14, 2016

An investigation of how children balance rules and exceptions when they learn languages.

Agreement and Its Failures

by Omer Preminger

ISBN: 9780262526173

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 12, 2014

A novel proposal regarding predicate-argument agreement that combines detailed empirical investigation with rigorous theoretical discussion.

Russian Case Morphology and the Syntactic Categories

by David Pesetsky

ISBN: 9780262525022

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: December 27, 2013

A proposal for a radical new view of case morphology, supported by a detailed investigation of some of the thorniest topics in Russian grammar.

Distributed Morphology Today

Morphemes for Morris Halle

Edited by Ora Matushansky and Alec P. Marantz

ISBN: 9780262019675

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: July 19, 2013

Essays that offer original theoretical contributions in Distributed Morphology and highlight the lasting influence of Morris Halle, a founder of the field.