Ad Backus

3.1k total citations
92 papers, 998 citations indexed

About

Ad Backus is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ad Backus has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 998 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Language and Linguistics, 47 papers in Linguistics and Language and 21 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Ad Backus's work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (32 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (29 papers) and Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (19 papers). Ad Backus is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (32 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (29 papers) and Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (19 papers). Ad Backus collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and United Kingdom. Ad Backus's co-authors include Jan Blommaert, A. Seza Doğruöz, Yeşim Sevinç, Pieter Muysken, Suzanne Aalberse, Aslı Özyürek, Elena Lieven, Afra Alishahi, Bernd Heine and Aslı Özyürek and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Cognitive Science and Journal of Pragmatics.

In The Last Decade

Ad Backus

82 papers receiving 900 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ad Backus Netherlands	17	626	603	249	149	147	92	998
Tej K. Bhatia United States	10	294 0.5×	492 0.8×	199 0.8×	164 1.1×	169 1.1×	54	775
Leonie Cornips Netherlands	14	465 0.7×	457 0.8×	335 1.3×	152 1.0×	45 0.3×	119	917
John Algeo United States	13	444 0.7×	678 1.1×	191 0.8×	265 1.8×	160 1.1×	83	1.2k
Abdelâli Bentahila Morocco	12	734 1.2×	642 1.1×	134 0.5×	69 0.5×	171 1.2×	16	1.0k
Elizabeth Lanza Norway	14	847 1.4×	580 1.0×	424 1.7×	66 0.4×	234 1.6×	27	1.1k
Kim Potowski United States	15	743 1.2×	720 1.2×	224 0.9×	98 0.7×	437 3.0×	40	1.0k
Robert Bayley United States	22	1.1k 1.7×	1.1k 1.8×	496 2.0×	338 2.3×	314 2.1×	69	1.7k
Carmen Silva‐Corvalán United States	16	786 1.3×	1.0k 1.7×	419 1.7×	398 2.7×	107 0.7×	37	1.4k
Richard Xiao United Kingdom	15	194 0.3×	820 1.4×	343 1.4×	220 1.5×	351 2.4×	39	1.3k
Marianne Hundt Switzerland	20	874 1.4×	1.1k 1.8×	146 0.6×	258 1.7×	299 2.0×	63	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Ad Backus

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ad Backus

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ad Backus

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All Works

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Zenner, Eline, et al.. (2023). On sisters and zussen: integrating semasiological and onomasiological perspectives on the use of English person-reference nouns in Belgian-Dutch teenage chat messages. Folia Linguistica. 57(2). 449–480. 1 indexed citations

Backus, Ad, et al.. (2023). The Netherlands Urban Field Station. Linguistics in the Netherlands. 40. 285–292.

Backus, Ad, et al.. (2023). ‘It’ Is Not for Everyone: Variation in Speakers’ Evaluation of Sociopragmatic Pronouns in Limburgian. Languages. 8(4). 253–253. 1 indexed citations

Backus, Ad, et al.. (2021). Intense Turkish-Dutch bilingualism leads to intense Turkish-Dutch mixing. Belgian Journal of Linguistics. 35. 13–33. 4 indexed citations

Aalberse, Suzanne, Ad Backus, & Pieter Muysken. (2019). Heritage languages. Homo Politicus (Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz). 52 indexed citations

Vijver, Fons van de, et al.. (2018). Bias in dyslexia screening in a Dutch multicultural population. Annals of Dyslexia. 68(1). 43–68. 6 indexed citations

Alishahi, Afra, et al.. (2015). Distributional determinants of learning argument structure constructions in first and second language.. Cognitive Science. 1547–1552. 2 indexed citations

Backus, Ad. (2014). [Review of We Do Language: English Language Variation in the Secondary English Classroom, A. H. Charity Hudley and C. Mallinson, 2013]. Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education. 6 indexed citations

Alishahi, Afra, et al.. (2014). Isolating second language learning factors in a computational study of bilingual construction acquisition. Cognitive Science. 36(36). 988–993. 2 indexed citations

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Backus, Ad. (2012). A usage-based approach to borrowability. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 3 indexed citations

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Blommaert, Jan & Ad Backus. (2012). Superdiverse Repertoires and the Individual. Research portal (Tilburg University). 11 indexed citations

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Backus, Ad, et al.. (2011). Individual differences in entrenchment of multiword units : Evidence from a magnitude estimation task. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 85. 155–165. 1 indexed citations

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Backus, Ad & Harry van der Heijden. (2002). Language mixing by young Turkish children in the Netherlands. Psychology of Language and Communication. 6(1). 55–73. 7 indexed citations

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Backus, Ad. (2002). Etniciteit als sociolinguïstische factor. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 3(1). 3–10. 1 indexed citations

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Backus, Ad. (2000). Code-switching in conversation: Language, interaction and identity. Journal of Pragmatics. 32(6). 831–838. 15 indexed citations

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Backus, Ad. (1999). Government and codeswitching. Explaining American Finnish. [Review of the book Government and codeswitching. Explaining American Finnish (Studies in Bilingualism, Volume 12), H. Halmari, 1999]. World Englishes. 18(2). 302–303. 1 indexed citations

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Backus, Ad. (1998). Turks-Nederlandse codewisseling. Universele en taalspecifieke aspecten van taalcontact. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 3(1). 1–16. 1 indexed citations

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Backus, Ad, et al.. (1997). Code-switching and ongoing linguistic change. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 1(1). 15–24. 6 indexed citations

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Backus, Ad, et al.. (1996). [Review article of Carol Myers-Scotton: 'Social Motivations of Codeswitching: Evidence from Africa' and 'Duelling languages: Grammatical structure in Codeswitching'. International Journal of Applied Linguistics. 6(1). 129–153. 1 indexed citations

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Backus, Ad. (1992). Patterns of language mixing : a study in Turkish-Dutch bilingualism. O. Harrassowitz eBooks. 35 indexed citations

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