Nina Hyams Explained

Nina Hyams (born 1952) is a distinguished research professor emeritus in linguistics at the University of California in Los Angeles.^[1]

Education and career

Hyams received her PhD in linguistics in 1983 from Graduate Center of the City University of New York, with a dissertation entitled, The acquisition of parameterized grammars.^[2] It was published by Springer in 1986,^[3] and it remains a widely cited and influential classic.^[4]

Her primary research area since her dissertation is grammatical development in first language acquisition.^{[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]} She is particularly noted for her research into the acquisition of null subjects.^{[11] [12] [13]}

In 2020 she was inducted as a Fellow in the Linguistic Society of America.^{[14] [15]}

Selected publications

• Book: Hyams, Nina M.. Language acquisition and the theory of parameters. 28 June 2011. 1986. D. Reidel Pub. Co.. 978-90-277-2218-8.
• Hyams, Nina; "The Theory of Parameters and Syntactic Development", a chapter within Book: Roeper. Thomas. Williams. Edwin. Parameter setting. 28 June 2011. 1987. Springer. 978-90-277-2315-4.
• Hyams. Nina. Kenneth Wexler. Summer 1993. On the Grammatical Basis of Null Subjects in Child Language. Linguistic Inquiry. MIT Press. 24. 3. 421–459. 4178822.
• Hyams. Nina. Sigridur Sigurjónsdóttir. 1990. The Development of "Long-Distance Anaphora": A Cross-Linguistic Comparison with Special Reference to Icelandic. Language Acquisition. Taylor & Francis, Ltd.. 1. 1. 57–93. 20011342. 10.1207/s15327817la0101_3.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Nina Hyams. 2022-02-21. Department of Linguistics - UCLA. en-US.
2. Web site: Students and Alumni. 2022-02-21. www.gc.cuny.edu. en.
3. Book: Hyams, Nina. Language Acquisition and the Theory of Parameters. 2012. Springer Science & Business Media. 978-94-009-4638-5.
4. Web site: [BOOK] Language acquisition and the theory of parameters ]. Google Scholar . 16 November 2022.
5. Book: Anderson, John Robert. Cognitive psychology and its implications. 28 June 2011. October 2004. Macmillan. 978-0-7167-0110-1. 384–.
6. Book: Joseph. Brian D.. Janda. Richard D.. The handbook of historical linguistics. 2003. Wiley-Blackwell. 978-0-631-19571-9. 500.
7. Book: White, Lydia. Second language acquisition and universal grammar. 2003. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-79647-7. 194.
8. Book: Cook. Vivian James. Newson. Mark. Chomsky's Universal Grammar: An Introduction. Chomsky's Universal Grammar: An Introduction. 2007. Wiley-Blackwell. 978-1-4051-1187-4. 213.
9. Book: Language acquisition by eye. Morford. Jill Patterson. Rachel I.. Psychology Press. 2000. 978-0-8058-2937-2. 91–95. Chamberlain. Charlene. Jill Morford. Mayberry.
10. Book: Barbara Lust. Gabriella Hermon. Jaklin Kornfilt. Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives: Binding, Dependencies, and Learnability. 1994. Psychology Press. 978-0-8058-1350-0. 15. Jaklin Kornfilt.
11. Book: Current issues in generative Hebrew linguistics. 978-90-272-5517-4. Sharon Armon-Lotem. Gabi Danon . Susan Deborah Rothstein . 2008.
12. Book: Radford. An Introduction to English Sentence Structure International Student Edition. 2010. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-15730-8. 36.
13. Book: Jaeggli, Osvaldo. The Null subject parameter. 1989. Springer. 978-1-55608-087-6. 26.
14. Web site: Angeles. UCLA Humanities Division is part of the Humanities Division within UCLA College 2300 Murphy Hall Los. Regents. CA 90095 University of California © 2022 UC. 2020-01-07. Linguistic Society of America elects Prof. Nina Hyams as 2020 fellow. 2022-02-21. Humanities Division - UCLA. en-US.
15. Web site: LSA Fellows by Year of Induction Linguistic Society of America. 2022-02-21. www.linguisticsociety.org.