Nina Hyams

Nina Hyams (born 1952) is a full professor of linguistics at the University of California in Los Angeles. Her primary research area is grammatical development in first language acquisition^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]} and is noted for her research into the acquisition of null subjects.^[7][8][9]

Selected publications

• Hyams, Nina M. (1986). Language acquisition and the theory of parameters. D. Reidel Pub. Co.. ISBN 9789027722188. http://books.google.com/books?id=TWhsAAAAIAAJ. 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 9789027723154. http://books.google.com/books?id=qqqtOpp_RLEC&pg=PA1. Retrieved 28 June 2011. 
• Hyams, Nina; Kenneth Wexler (Summer 1993). "On the Grammatical Basis of Null Subjects in Child Language". Linguistic Inquiry (MIT Press) 24 (3): 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 (Taylor & Francis, Ltd.) 1 (1): 57–93. JSTOR 20011342. 

References

1. ^ Anderson, John Robert (2004-10). Cognitive psychology and its implications. Macmillan. pp. 384–. ISBN 9780716701101. http://books.google.com/books?id=9P4p6eAULMoC&pg=PA384. Retrieved 28 June 2011. 
2. ^ Joseph, Brian D.; Janda, Richard D. (2003). The handbook of historical linguistics. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 500–. ISBN 9780631195719. http://books.google.com/books?id=uNSxFdbSmDgC&pg=PA500. Retrieved 28 June 2011. 
3. ^ White, Lydia (2003-03-24). Second language acquisition and universal grammar. Cambridge University Press. pp. 194-. ISBN 9780521796477. http://books.google.com/books?id=2Q25nuAQ-oQC&pg=PR11. Retrieved 28 June 2011. 
4. ^ Cook, Vivian James; Newson, Mark (2007). Chomsky's universal grammar: an introduction. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 213–. ISBN 9781405111874. http://books.google.com/books?id=mguunu3sI-YC&pg=PA213. Retrieved 28 June 2011. 
5. ^ Chamberlain, Charlene; Morford, Jill Patterson; Mayberry, Rachel I. (2000). Language acquisition by eye. Psychology Press. pp. 91-€“95. ISBN 9780805829372. http://books.google.com/books?id=F5R94AGV7wAC&pg=PA91. Retrieved 28 June 2011. 
6. ^ Lust, Barbara; Hermon, Gabriella; Kornfilt, Jaklin (1994-12-13). Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives : Binding, Dependencies, and Learnability. Psychology Press. pp. 15–. ISBN 9780805813500. http://books.google.com/books?id=unOF3RtBbmcC&pg=PA15. Retrieved 28 June 2011. 
7. ^ Sharon Armon-Lotem; Gabi Danon, Susan Deborah Rothstein. Current issues in generative Hebrew linguistics. ISBN 9789027255174. http://books.google.com/books?id=CJPYxRQgZpEC&pg=PA245&dq=%22Nina+Hyams%22+linguistics&hl=en&ei=QDUJTqX3LLHSiALN1rTeAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=Nina%20Hyams&f=false. 
8. ^ Radford (2010-02-25). An Introduction to English Sentence Structure International Student Edition. Cambridge University Press. pp. 36–. ISBN 9780521157308. http://books.google.com/books?id=EUwDUJWtBmIC&pg=PA36. Retrieved 28 June 2011. 
9. ^ Jaeggli, Osvaldo (1989-05-31). The Null subject parameter. Springer. pp. 26–. ISBN 9781556080876. http://books.google.com/books?id=WfdzrEbIaeQC&pg=PA26. Retrieved 28 June 2011. 

External links

• Official website

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Name	Hyams, Nina
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Date of birth	1952
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