Nina Hyams (born 1952) is a distinguished research professor emeritus in linguistics at the University of California in Los Angeles.
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. It was published by Springer in 1986, and it remains a widely cited and influential classic.
Her primary research area since her dissertation is grammatical development in first language acquisition. She is particularly noted for her research into the acquisition of null subjects.
In 2020 she was inducted as a Fellow in the Linguistic Society of America.
Selected publications
- Hyams, Nina M. (1986). Language acquisition and the theory of parameters. D. Reidel Pub. Co. ISBN 978-90-277-2218-8. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
- Hyams, Nina; "The Theory of Parameters and Syntactic Development", a chapter within Roeper, Thomas; Williams, Edwin (1987). Parameter setting. Springer. ISBN 978-90-277-2315-4. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
- Hyams, Nina; Kenneth Wexler (Summer 1993). "On the Grammatical Basis of Null Subjects in Child Language". Linguistic Inquiry. 24 (3). MIT Press: 421–459. JSTOR 4178822.
- Hyams, Nina; Sigridur Sigurjónsdóttir (1990). "The Development of "Long-Distance Anaphora": A Cross-Linguistic Comparison with Special Reference to Icelandic". Language Acquisition. 1 (1). Taylor & Francis, Ltd.: 57–93. doi:10.1207/s15327817la0101_3. JSTOR 20011342.
References
- "Nina Hyams". Department of Linguistics - UCLA. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
- "Students and Alumni". www.gc.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
- Hyams, Nina (2012). Language Acquisition and the Theory of Parameters. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-94-009-4638-5.
- "[BOOK] Language acquisition and the theory of parameters". Google Scholar. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
- Anderson, John Robert (October 2004). Cognitive psychology and its implications. Macmillan. pp. 384–. ISBN 978-0-7167-0110-1. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
- Joseph, Brian D.; Janda, Richard D. (2003). The handbook of historical linguistics. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 500. ISBN 978-0-631-19571-9.
- White, Lydia (2003). Second language acquisition and universal grammar. Cambridge University Press. p. 194. ISBN 978-0-521-79647-7.
- Cook, Vivian James; Newson, Mark (2007). Chomsky's Universal Grammar: An Introduction. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 213. ISBN 978-1-4051-1187-4.
- Chamberlain, Charlene; Morford, Jill Patterson; Mayberry, Rachel I. (2000). Language acquisition by eye. Psychology Press. pp. 91–95. ISBN 978-0-8058-2937-2.
- Barbara Lust; Gabriella Hermon; Jaklin Kornfilt (1994). Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives: Binding, Dependencies, and Learnability. Psychology Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-8058-1350-0.
- Sharon Armon-Lotem; Gabi Danon; Susan Deborah Rothstein (2008). Current issues in generative Hebrew linguistics. ISBN 978-90-272-5517-4.
- Radford (2010). An Introduction to English Sentence Structure International Student Edition. Cambridge University Press. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-521-15730-8.
- Jaeggli, Osvaldo (1989). The Null subject parameter. Springer. p. 26. ISBN 978-1-55608-087-6.
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