Ellen Woolford

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 891 citations indexed

About

Ellen Woolford is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence and Linguistics and Language. According to data from OpenAlex, Ellen Woolford has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 891 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Language and Linguistics, 9 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 6 papers in Linguistics and Language. Recurrent topics in Ellen Woolford's work include Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (17 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (8 papers) and Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 papers). Ellen Woolford is often cited by papers focused on Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (17 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (8 papers) and Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 papers). Ellen Woolford collaborates with scholars based in United States. Ellen Woolford's co-authors include Lyle Campbell, Christy G. Turner, Joseph Greenberg, Stephen L. Zegura, William S. Laughlin, Kenneth M. Weiss, James A. Fox, Ellen Brandner, Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson and Marcus Kracht and has published in prestigious journals such as Language, Behavioral and Brain Sciences and Current Anthropology.

In The Last Decade

Ellen Woolford

24 papers receiving 736 citations

Hit Papers

The Settlement of the Americas: A Comparison of the Lingu... 1986 2026 1999 2012 1986 100 200 300

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ellen Woolford United States 10 553 206 196 158 133 26 891
Tom Güldemann Germany 13 302 0.5× 220 1.1× 31 0.2× 109 0.7× 111 0.8× 48 597
Ives Goddard United States 14 259 0.5× 215 1.0× 60 0.3× 131 0.8× 40 0.3× 54 492
Winfred P. Lehmann United States 12 384 0.7× 217 1.1× 76 0.4× 129 0.8× 18 0.1× 39 590
Ger P. Reesink Netherlands 12 265 0.5× 289 1.4× 82 0.4× 97 0.6× 64 0.5× 31 595
Terrence Kaufman United States 15 1.1k 1.9× 885 4.3× 164 0.8× 315 2.0× 17 0.1× 35 1.7k
George van Driem Switzerland 18 379 0.7× 300 1.5× 67 0.3× 87 0.6× 275 2.1× 80 893
C. F. Voegelin United States 11 280 0.5× 210 1.0× 84 0.4× 143 0.9× 26 0.2× 44 649
Andrew Garrett United States 13 333 0.6× 279 1.4× 119 0.6× 228 1.4× 19 0.1× 30 617
April McMahon United Kingdom 15 629 1.1× 648 3.1× 224 1.1× 369 2.3× 34 0.3× 32 1.1k
Jay H. Jasanoff United States 9 354 0.6× 127 0.6× 19 0.1× 70 0.4× 70 0.5× 51 601

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ellen Woolford

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All Works

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Woolford, Ellen. (2020). Conditions on Object Agreement in Ruwund (Bantu). ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst).
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Woolford, Ellen. (2015). Ergativity and Transitivity. Linguistic Inquiry. 46(3). 489–531. 12 indexed citations
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Woolford, Ellen. (2013). Aspect Splits and Parasitic Marking. publish.UP (University of Potsdam). 166–192. 2 indexed citations
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Woolford, Ellen. (2008). Is Agreement Really Independent of Case in Choctaw. 2 indexed citations
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Woolford, Ellen. (2008). Active-Stative Agreement in Lakota: Person and Number Alignment and Portmanteau Formation. 4 indexed citations
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Woolford, Ellen. (2007). Introduction to OT syntax. 119–134. 2 indexed citations
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Brandner, Ellen, Heike Zinsmeister, Άρτεμις Αλεξιάδου, et al.. (2003). New perspectives on case theory. 80 indexed citations
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Woolford, Ellen, Ellen Brandner, Maria Gouskova, et al.. (2003). Nominative Objects and Case Locality. 11(4). 221–34. 5 indexed citations
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Woolford, Ellen. (2001). Clitics and Agreement in Competition: Ergative Cross-referencing Patterns. Rutgers University Community Repository (Rutgers University). 28(1). 15. 14 indexed citations
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Woolford, Ellen. (1999). More on the Anaphor Agreement Effect. Linguistic Inquiry. 30(2). 257–287. 61 indexed citations
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Woolford, Ellen. (1997). FOUR-WAY CASE SYSTEMS: ERGATIVE, NOMINATIVE, OBJECTIVE AND ACCUSATIVE. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. 15(1). 181–227. 102 indexed citations
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Woolford, Ellen. (1993). Symmetric and asymmetric passives. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. 11(4). 679–728. 46 indexed citations
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Woolford, Ellen. (1991). Two Subject Positions in Lango. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 17(2). 231–231. 4 indexed citations
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Greenberg, Joseph, Christy G. Turner, Stephen L. Zegura, et al.. (1986). The Settlement of the Americas: A Comparison of the Linguistic, Dental, and Genetic Evidence [and Comments and Reply]. Current Anthropology. 27(5). 477–497. 300 indexed citations breakdown →
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Woolford, Ellen. (1984). universals and rule options in kinship terminology: a synthesis of three formal approaches. American Ethnologist. 11(4). 771–790. 8 indexed citations
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Woolford, Ellen. (1984). Why creoles won't reveal the properties of universal grammar. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 7(2). 211–212. 4 indexed citations
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Woolford, Ellen. (1979). Aspects of Tok Pisin grammar. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 2 indexed citations
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Woolford, Ellen. (1978). Topicalization and Clefting Without wh-Movement. Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst). 8(1). 21. 1 indexed citations

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