.	Prof. Nina Hyams UCLA Linguistics Dept. 3125 Campbell Hall Los Angeles CA 90095-1543 hyams@humnet.ucla.edu

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Nina M. Hyams' primary research area is grammatical development in first language acquisition. She has worked on several aspects of the early grammar of English and other languages including the development of functional structure and subjects, the acquisition of binding principles (in Icelandic) and control, ergativity and auxiliary selection in Romance. She is especially interested in the relationship between linguistic theory and language development, for example, the implications of parameter theory for development, and also in the interface between syntactic and semantic/pragmatic development.

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Curriculum Vitae

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Downloadable Papers

• Hyams, Nina “Aspect Matters” To appear in: Deen, Kamil Ud, Jun Nomura, Barbara Schulz & Bonnie D. Schwartz (Eds), Proceedings to the Inaugural Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America (GALANA). Cambridge MA: UCONN/MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.

• Salustri, Manola and Nina Hyams, “Looking for the Universal Core of the RI Stage.” To appear in Torrens, V., Escobar, L. (in press) The Acquisition of Syntax in Romance Languages Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• "Child Non-finite Clauses and the Mood-Aspect Connection:  Evidence from Child Greek".  To appear in The Syntax, Semantics and Acquisition of Aspect, R. Slabakova & P. Kempchinsky (eds.).  Dordrecht:  Kluwer Academic Publishers 2005.
• Salustri, Manola and Nina Hyams, "Is There an Analogue to the RI Stage in the Null Subject Languages?".  Proceedings of the BU Conference on Language Development 27., 692-703. 2003.  Cambridge, MA:  Cascadilla Press.
• Hoekstra, Teun and Nina Hyams "Aspects of Root Infinitives," Lingua 106, 81-112; 1998.
• "Clausal Structure in Child Greek," The Linguistic Review 19 225-269. 2002.  Also available as: [Word document] [RTF format]
• Torrence, Harold and Nina Hyams, “Finiteness and Temporal Interpretations in Early Grammar: The Role of Lexical Aspect”. in J. van Kampen and S. Bauuw (eds.), Proceedings of GALA. 2003. LOT, University of Utrecht.
• Hyams, Nina, Dimitris Ntelitheos, and Cecile Manorohanta, "The Acquisition of the Malagasy Voicing System: Implications for the adult grammar".
• Gilkerson, Jill, Nina Hyams, and Susan Curtiss, " 'No I Understand Negation’: A preferential looking paradigm study of early knowledge of sentential and anaphoric negation"

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