David Lightfoot | |
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Born | February 10, 1945 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Michigan |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Linguist |
Sub-discipline | Syntactic theory, language acquisition, language change |
Institutions |
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]