David Lightfoot (linguist) explained

Birth Date:	10 February 1945
Alma Mater:	University of Michigan
Discipline:	Linguist
Sub Discipline:	Syntactic theory, language acquisition, language change

David William Lightfoot (born February 10, 1945) is an American linguist who served as an assistant director of the National Science Foundation from 2005 to 2009.^{[1] [2]} He is a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University.^[3]

Books

• The language lottery: toward a biology of grammars
• Born to Parse: How Children Select Their Languages
• How to Set Parameters: Arguments From Language Change

Notes and References

1. Web site: National Science Foundation Names David Lightfoot as New Assistant Director for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences. 2005-02-10. National Science Foundation. en. 2018-05-11.
2. Web site: Faculty. Georgetown University Linguistics Department.
3. Web site: David Lightfoot Faculty Profile. Georgetown University. 10 May 2018.