David Adger

4.7k total citations
63 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

David Adger is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, David Adger has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Language and Linguistics, 25 papers in Linguistics and Language and 13 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in David Adger's work include Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (44 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (23 papers) and Linguistics and language evolution (11 papers). David Adger is often cited by papers focused on Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (44 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (23 papers) and Linguistics and language evolution (11 papers). David Adger collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Norway. David Adger's co-authors include Daniel Harbour, Gillian Ramchand, Jennifer Smith, Susana Béjar, Jennifer Culbertson, George Tsoulas, Peter Svenonius, Cécile De Cat, Josep Quer and Graeme Trousdale and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Science and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

David Adger

57 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Adger United Kingdom	20	1.5k	593	567	475	199	63	1.7k
Gillian Ramchand Norway	18	1.7k 1.1×	688 1.2×	502 0.9×	658 1.4×	191 1.0×	44	1.9k
Heidi Harley United States	23	1.9k 1.3×	790 1.3×	546 1.0×	705 1.5×	217 1.1×	59	2.1k
Hagit Borer United States	20	1.7k 1.2×	700 1.2×	524 0.9×	583 1.2×	299 1.5×	28	1.9k
Rochelle Lieber United States	18	1.4k 1.0×	596 1.0×	490 0.9×	540 1.1×	228 1.1×	29	1.8k
Andrew Nevins United Kingdom	21	1.5k 1.0×	644 1.1×	610 1.1×	825 1.7×	303 1.5×	95	2.0k
Ian Roberts United Kingdom	25	2.1k 1.4×	714 1.2×	925 1.6×	568 1.2×	184 0.9×	46	2.3k
Matthew S. Dryer United States	16	1.2k 0.8×	480 0.8×	584 1.0×	412 0.9×	154 0.8×	45	1.6k
M. Rita Manzini Italy	15	1.3k 0.9×	499 0.8×	453 0.8×	353 0.7×	241 1.2×	70	1.6k
Marcel den Dikken United States	22	1.8k 1.2×	734 1.2×	591 1.0×	483 1.0×	132 0.7×	83	1.9k
Lisa Lai‐Shen Cheng Netherlands	20	1.6k 1.1×	689 1.2×	606 1.1×	569 1.2×	237 1.2×	67	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by David Adger

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20 of 20 papers shown

Adger, David. (2025). Mereological Syntax. The MIT Press eBooks.

Jamieson, Elizabeth R., Jennifer Smith, David Adger, Caroline Heycock, & Gary Thoms. (2024). ‘When intuitions (don't) fail’: combining syntax and sociolinguistics in the analysis of Scots. English Language and Linguistics. 29(1). 1–34. 2 indexed citations

Thoms, Gary, David Adger, Caroline Heycock, Elizabeth R. Jamieson, & Jennifer Smith. (2023). English Contracted Negation Revisited: Evidence From Varieties of Scots. Language. 99(4). 726–759.

Adger, David, et al.. (2021). Comparing prehistoric constructed languages: world-building and its role in understanding prehistoric languages. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1824). 20200201–20200201. 3 indexed citations

Mackay, Anson W., David Adger, Alexander L. Bond, Sam Giles, & Erinma Ochu. (2019). Straight-washing ecological legacies. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(12). 1611–1611. 4 indexed citations

Martin, Alexander, Klaus Abels, David Adger, & Jennifer Culbertson. (2019). Do learners' word order preferences reflect hierarchical language structure?. Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh). 2303–2309. 4 indexed citations

Thoms, Gary, David Adger, Caroline Heycock, & Jennifer S. Smith. (2019). Syntactic variation and auxiliary contraction: The surprising case of scots. Language. 95(3). 421–455. 3 indexed citations

Adger, David. (2019). Language Unlimited: The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 18 indexed citations

Adger, David, David A. Hall, & Jenny Cheshire. (2017). Multicultural London English and social and educational policies. Apollo (University of Cambridge). 2 indexed citations

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Adger, David & Peter Svenonius. (2015). Linguistic explanation and domain specialization: a case study in bound variable anaphora. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 1421–1421. 5 indexed citations

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Adger, David. (2013). Constructions and Grammatical Explanation: Comments on Goldberg. Mind & Language. 28(4). 466–478. 8 indexed citations

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Mesoudi, Alex, Alan G. McElligott, & David Adger. (2011). Introduction; Integrating Genetic and Cultural Evolutionary Approaches to Language. Human Biology. 83(2). 141–151. 6 indexed citations

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Harbour, Daniel, David Adger, & Susana Béjar. (2008). Phi theory : phi-features across modules and interfaces. Oxford University Press eBooks. 95 indexed citations

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Adger, David & Graeme Trousdale. (2007). Variation in English syntax: theoretical implications. English Language and Linguistics. 11(2). 261–278. 19 indexed citations

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Adger, David. (2006). Remarks on Minimalist feature theory and Move. Journal of Linguistics. 42(3). 663–673. 14 indexed citations

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Adger, David. (2003). Stress and phasal syntax. 33(3). 238–266. 43 indexed citations

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Adger, David & Josep Quer. (2001). The Syntax and Semantics of Unselected Embedded Questions. Language. 77(1). 107–133. 30 indexed citations

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Adger, David, et al.. (1999). Specifiers : minimalist approaches. Oxford University Press eBooks. 43 indexed citations

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Adger, David & Josep Quer. (1997). Subjunctives, Unselected Embedded Questions, and Clausal Polarity Items. Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst). 27(1). 2. 5 indexed citations

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Borsley, Robert D., Randall Hendrick, Maggie Tallerman, et al.. (1996). The Syntax of the Celtic Languages. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 22 indexed citations

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