Edwin Battistella

4.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
50 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Edwin Battistella is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Edwin Battistella has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Language and Linguistics, 7 papers in Linguistics and Language and 5 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Edwin Battistella's work include Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (10 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (5 papers). Edwin Battistella is often cited by papers focused on Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (10 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (5 papers). Edwin Battistella collaborates with scholars based in United States. Edwin Battistella's co-authors include D. Terence Langendoen and Anne Lobeck and has published in prestigious journals such as Language, Lingua and Natural Language & Linguistic Theory.

In The Last Decade

Edwin Battistella

44 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Talk at work : Interaction in institutional settings. Ed. by Paul Drew and John Heritage. (Studies in interactional sociolinguistics, 8.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. 580.

1995 565 citations Edwin Battistella Language profile →
Language and the law. Ed. by John Gibbons. (Language in social life series.) London & New York: Longman, 1994. Pp. 476.

1996 155 citations Edwin Battistella Language profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Edwin Battistella United States	21	1.0k	478	366	324	281	50	1.9k
Roger W. Shuy United States	21	857 0.8×	354 0.7×	742 2.0×	284 0.9×	249 0.9×	115	1.9k
Jef Verschueren Belgium	24	1.3k 1.2×	539 1.1×	576 1.6×	739 2.3×	240 0.9×	104	2.2k
George Yule United States	24	1.5k 1.5×	674 1.4×	430 1.2×	799 2.5×	314 1.1×	73	2.4k
Sally McConnell‐Ginet United States	21	1.7k 1.6×	437 0.9×	1.1k 3.0×	847 2.6×	280 1.0×	38	3.2k
Anna Wierzbicka Australia	19	1.6k 1.5×	784 1.6×	456 1.2×	516 1.6×	181 0.6×	47	2.2k
Gillian Brown United Kingdom	12	1.2k 1.1×	360 0.8×	241 0.7×	761 2.3×	267 1.0×	25	2.0k
Jennifer Coates United Kingdom	20	1.2k 1.2×	443 0.9×	478 1.3×	659 2.0×	203 0.7×	55	2.1k
Cliff Goddard Australia	25	1.3k 1.2×	969 2.0×	339 0.9×	256 0.8×	208 0.7×	109	2.1k
Jack Sidnell Canada	26	2.0k 1.9×	1.1k 2.2×	329 0.9×	827 2.6×	206 0.7×	64	2.8k
Alan Partington Italy	20	883 0.8×	587 1.2×	172 0.5×	706 2.2×	294 1.0×	46	1.8k

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Battistella, Edwin. (1999). Encyclopedia of semiotics. Ed. by Paul Bouissac. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 702.. Language. 75(3). 640–640. 57 indexed citations

Battistella, Edwin. (1998). Communication development and disorders in African American children: Research, assessment and intervention. Ed. By Alan G. Kamhi, Karen E. Pollock, and Joyce L. Harris Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes, 1996. Pp. xx, 374.. Language. 74(2). 455–456. 65 indexed citations

Battistella, Edwin. (1998). An alphabetical guide to the language of name studies. By Adrian Room. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1996. Pp. viii, 121. $34.00. - More names and naming: An annotated bibliography. Comp. By Edwin D. Lawson Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995. Pp. xix, 298. $69.50.. Language. 74(1). 221–222. 1 indexed citations

Battistella, Edwin. (1996). Invariance, markedness and distinctive feature analysis: A contrastive study of sign systems in English and Hebrew. By Yishai Tobin. (Current issues in linguistic theory, 111.) Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1994. Pp. 406.. Language. 72(4). 890–891. 21 indexed citations

Battistella, Edwin. (1996). Language and the law. Ed. by John Gibbons. (Language in social life series.) London & New York: Longman, 1994. Pp. 476.. Language. 72(3). 659–660. 155 indexed citations breakdown →

Battistella, Edwin. (1995). Talk at work : Interaction in institutional settings. Ed. by Paul Drew and John Heritage. (Studies in interactional sociolinguistics, 8.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. 580.. Language. 71(4). 829–830. 565 indexed citations breakdown →

Battistella, Edwin. (1995). The parameterization of Universal Grammar . Ed. by Gisbert Fanselow. (Linguistik Aktuell, 8.) Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1993. Pp. 232.. Language. 71(1). 194–194. 2 indexed citations

Battistella, Edwin. (1995). Foundations of generative syntax . By Robert Freidin. (Current studies in linguistics, 21.) Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1992. Pp. 368. $39.95.. Language. 71(1). 194–195. 47 indexed citations

Battistella, Edwin. (1992). Lexical semantics without thematic roles . By Yael Ravin. London & New York: Oxford University Press. 1990. Pp. viii, 248. Cloth $49.95.. Language. 68(1). 238–239. 10 indexed citations

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Battistella, Edwin. (1991). Doublespeak: From ‘revenue enhancement’ to ‘terminal living’ : how government, business, advertisers, and others use language to deceive you. By William Lutz. New York: Harper & Row, 1989. Pp. xiii, 290. $17.95.. Language. 67(2). 410–411. 17 indexed citations

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Battistella, Edwin. (1991). Linguistic aspects of legislative expression . By Frederick Bowers. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1989. Pp. xiv, 378. $39.95.. Language. 67(2). 390–391.

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Battistella, Edwin. (1990). Language, gender, and professional writing: Theoretical approaches and guidelines for nonsexist usage. By Francine Wattman Frank and Paula A. Treichler, with contributions by H. Lee Gershuny, Sally McConnell-Ginet, and Susan J. Wolfe New York: The Modern Language Association of America. 1989. Pp. viii, 341. Cloth $32.00, paper $14.50.. Language. 66(1). 190–191. 19 indexed citations

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Battistella, Edwin. (1989). Preference laws for syllable structure and the explanation of sound change. By Theo Vennemann. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1988. Pp. viii, 95. $7.15.. Language. 65(3). 681–682. 162 indexed citations

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Battistella, Edwin. (1988). The bounds of interpretation : Linguistic theory and literary text. By Ellen Schauber and Ellen Spolsky. Stanford: University Press, 1986. Pp. 215.. Language. 64(1). 215–216. 19 indexed citations

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Battistella, Edwin. (1988). Lectures on contemporary syntactic theories : An introduction to Government-Binding Theory, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, and Lexical-Functional Grammar. By Peter Sells. (CSLI lecture notes, 3.) Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1985. Pp. 214. [Distrib. by U. of Chicago Press; cloth $23.95, paper $11.95.]. Language. 64(1). 194–195. 28 indexed citations

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Battistella, Edwin. (1986). Russian and Slavic grammar: Studies 1931–1981. By Roman Jakobson. Ed. by Linda R. Waugh and Morris Halle. (Janua linguarum, Series maior, 106.) Berlin: Mouton, 1984. Pp. xvi, 160. DM 70.00. Language. 62(2). 464–465. 23 indexed citations

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Battistella, Edwin. (1985). Glossogenetics: The origin and evolution of language. Ed. by Eric de Grolier. (Models of scientific thought series, 1.) New York: Harwood, 1983. Pp. 546.. Language. 61(2). 506–507. 10 indexed citations

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Battistella, Edwin. (1985). Affix positions and cooccurrences: The PARADIGM program. By Joseph E. Grimes Arlington, TX: Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas, Arlington, 1983. Pp. 90.. Language. 61(3). 738–739. 3 indexed citations

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Battistella, Edwin. (1984). The development of word order patterns in Old English . By Marian C. Bean. London: Croom Helm; Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1983. Pp. 150. £13.95; $25.75.. Language. 60(2). 455–456. 35 indexed citations

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Battistella, Edwin. (1984). Complementation in Middle English and the methodology of historical syntax: A study of the Wyclifite sermons. By Anthony Warner. London: Croom Helm; University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1982. Pp. 266. $16.95.. Language. 60(2). 456–457. 9 indexed citations

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