Alan Rumsey

3.9k total citations
58 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Alan Rumsey is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Rumsey has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Linguistics and Language, 22 papers in Language and Linguistics and 17 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Alan Rumsey's work include Multilingual Education and Policy (17 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (17 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (16 papers). Alan Rumsey is often cited by papers focused on Multilingual Education and Policy (17 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (17 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (16 papers). Alan Rumsey collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Netherlands. Alan Rumsey's co-authors include Joel Robbins, James F. Weiner, Francésca Merlan, Roger Ivar Lohmann, J. E. Morton, L. R. Hiatt, Eve Danziger, William B. McGregor, Lila San Roque and Nicholas Evans and has published in prestigious journals such as Language, American Anthropologist and Current Anthropology.

In The Last Decade

Alan Rumsey

56 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alan Rumsey Australia	19	588	419	348	283	251	58	1.5k
James F. Weiner Australia	17	424 0.7×	229 0.5×	372 1.1×	351 1.2×	173 0.7×	63	1.5k
William F. Hanks United States	19	693 1.2×	394 0.9×	259 0.7×	262 0.9×	356 1.4×	42	1.6k
Paul Kockelman United States	19	351 0.6×	167 0.4×	152 0.4×	240 0.8×	202 0.8×	52	1.0k
Greg Urban United States	11	580 1.0×	489 1.2×	278 0.8×	374 1.3×	149 0.6×	24	1.6k
Peter Mühlhäusler Australia	20	886 1.5×	795 1.9×	72 0.2×	321 1.1×	307 1.2×	92	2.0k
Jonathan Boyarin United States	13	384 0.7×	385 0.9×	312 0.9×	808 2.9×	82 0.3×	59	1.8k
Bruce Rigsby Australia	11	363 0.6×	294 0.7×	206 0.6×	130 0.5×	189 0.8×	30	1.0k
Joël Sherzer United States	20	989 1.7×	580 1.4×	233 0.7×	235 0.8×	473 1.9×	55	1.9k
Patrick Eisenlohr Germany	18	244 0.4×	333 0.8×	248 0.7×	357 1.3×	53 0.2×	43	1.1k
Roger D. Abrahams United States	20	250 0.4×	229 0.5×	274 0.8×	466 1.6×	128 0.5×	106	1.6k

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Biersack, Aletta, Laurence Goldman, Katie Glaskin, et al.. (2021). Reading and Remembering the Anthropologist James F. Weiner. Oceania. 91(1). 2–25. 1 indexed citations

Rumsey, Alan. (2018). The sociocultural dynamics of indigenous multilingualism in northwestern Australia. Language & Communication. 62. 91–101. 16 indexed citations

Rumsey, Alan & Rupert Stasch. (2012). Interlingual Articulations in Asia and the Pacific: Figuring Sociocultural Otherness through Otherness of Linguistic Codes. The Australian Journal of Anthropology. 23. 1 indexed citations

Rumsey, Alan, et al.. (2011). Sung Tales from the Papua New Guinea Highlands : Studies in Form, Meaning, and Sociocultural Context. ANU Press eBooks. 9 indexed citations

Rumsey, Alan. (2009). L’anthropologie a-t-elle besoin de sa propre pragmatique ?. N° 5(1). 43–62. 4 indexed citations

Rumsey, Alan. (2009). ‘Optional’ ergativity and the framing of reported speech. Lingua. 120(7). 1652–1676. 13 indexed citations

Rumsey, Alan. (2009). War and peace in Highland PNG: Some recent developments in the Nebilyer Valley, Western Highlands Province. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 1 indexed citations

Rumsey, Alan. (2007). Musical, Poetic and Linguistic Form in Tom Yaya Sung Narratives from Papua New Guinea. Anthropological linguistics. 49. 235–282. 7 indexed citations

Lohmann, Roger Ivar, Alan Rumsey, & James F. Weiner. (2001). Emplaced Myth: Space, Narrative, and Knowledge in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea. Pacific Affairs. 74(3). 466–466. 65 indexed citations

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Rumsey, Alan. (1999). Social segmentation, voting, and violence in Papua New Guinea. The Contemporary Pacific/The contemporary Pacific (Online). 11(2). 305–333. 13 indexed citations

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Rumsey, Alan. (1999). Orality. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 9(1-2). 170–172. 1 indexed citations

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Merlan, Francésca, J. E. Morton, Alan Rumsey, & L. R. Hiatt. (1997). Scholar and sceptic : Australian Aboriginal studies in honour of L.R. Hiatt. 40 indexed citations

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Rumsey, Alan. (1996). Aspects of native title and social identity in the Kimberleys and beyond. Australian aboriginal studies. 2. 11 indexed citations

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Rumsey, Alan. (1994). On the transitivity of ‘say’ constructions in Bunuba¹. Australian Journal of Linguistics. 14(2). 137–153. 4 indexed citations

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Schwimmer, Éric, Francésca Merlan, & Alan Rumsey. (1992). Ku Waru: Language and Segmentary Politics in the Western Nebilyer Valley, Papua New Guinea.. Pacific Affairs. 65(3). 444–444. 18 indexed citations

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Rumsey, Alan. (1987). The chimera of Proto-Indo-European ergativity. Lingua. 71(1-4). 297–318. 11 indexed citations

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Rumsey, Alan. (1986). ORATORY AND THE POLITICS OF METAPHOR IN THE NEW GUINEA HIGHLANDS. 3. 7 indexed citations

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Merlan, Francésca, et al.. (1986). Papers in New Guinea Linguistics No. 25. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 1 indexed citations

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Rumsey, Alan. (1982). An intra-sentence grammar of Ungarinjin, north-western Australia. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 42 indexed citations

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Rumsey, Alan. (1980). Grammatical categories in Australian languages . Edited by R. M. W. Dixon. (Linguistic series, 22.) Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies; Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1976. Pp. 776. Cloth $30.00, paper $17.50.. Language. 56(3). 669–673. 214 indexed citations

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