John Bowers

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 549 citations indexed

About

John Bowers is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence and Linguistics and Language. According to data from OpenAlex, John Bowers has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 549 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Language and Linguistics, 5 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 2 papers in Linguistics and Language. Recurrent topics in John Bowers's work include Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (7 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (5 papers) and Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (2 papers). John Bowers is often cited by papers focused on Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (7 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (5 papers) and Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (2 papers). John Bowers collaborates with scholars based in United States. John Bowers's co-authors include Barbara A Lafford, Susan Kemper and Jack Catlin and has published in prestigious journals such as Linguistic Inquiry, Lingua and Journal of Psycholinguistic Research.

In The Last Decade

John Bowers

10 papers receiving 381 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The syntax of predication

1993 385 citations John Bowers Linguistic Inquiry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Bowers United States	6	509	232	154	142	111	10	549
Joan Maling United States	11	605 1.2×	221 1.0×	211 1.4×	166 1.2×	80 0.7×	17	658
Molly Diesing United States	8	421 0.8×	180 0.8×	146 0.9×	137 1.0×	58 0.5×	12	457
Jacqueline Guéron France	11	439 0.9×	171 0.7×	138 0.9×	143 1.0×	96 0.9×	26	505
Gary Milsark United States	5	395 0.8×	200 0.9×	127 0.8×	174 1.2×	89 0.8×	8	505
Günther Grewendorf Germany	10	386 0.8×	174 0.8×	120 0.8×	113 0.8×	54 0.5×	37	454
Eloise Jelinek United States	7	428 0.8×	125 0.5×	207 1.3×	138 1.0×	55 0.5×	13	470
Michael Rochemont Canada	9	485 1.0×	198 0.9×	169 1.1×	215 1.5×	67 0.6×	14	559
Peter Ackema United Kingdom	12	511 1.0×	237 1.0×	149 1.0×	178 1.3×	79 0.7×	32	556
Javier Gutiérrez‐Rexach United States	12	413 0.8×	124 0.5×	106 0.7×	127 0.9×	70 0.6×	37	476
Giuliana Giusti Italy	11	437 0.9×	218 0.9×	145 0.9×	116 0.8×	66 0.6×	60	495

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Bowers

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All Works

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10 of 10 papers shown

1.

Bowers, John. (2018). Deriving Syntactic Relations. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 3 indexed citations

2.

Bowers, John. (2011). Non-event nominals and argument structure. Lingua. 121(7). 1194–1206. 5 indexed citations

3.

Bowers, John. (2008). On Reducing Control to Movement. Syntax. 11(2). 125–143. 18 indexed citations

4.

Bowers, John. (2002). Transitivity. Linguistic Inquiry. 33(2). 183–224. 68 indexed citations

5.

Bowers, John. (1993). The syntax of predication. Linguistic Inquiry. 24(4). 591–656. 385 indexed citations breakdown →

6.

Bowers, John. (1991). The Syntax and Semantics of Nominals. Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory. 1. 1–1. 9 indexed citations

7.

Lafford, Barbara A & John Bowers. (1982). The Theory of Grammatical Relations. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. 36(2). 127–127. 28 indexed citations

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Kemper, Susan, Jack Catlin, & John Bowers. (1977). On the surface structure of infinitive-complement sentences. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 6(1). 1–19. 1 indexed citations

9.

Bowers, John. (1975). Some adjectival nominalizations in English. Lingua. 37(4). 341–361. 3 indexed citations

10.

Bowers, John. (1970). Adjectives and adverbs in English. 13(4). 29 indexed citations

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