John H. McWhorter

3.1k total citations
28 papers, 970 citations indexed

About

John H. McWhorter is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, John H. McWhorter has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 970 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Linguistics and Language, 13 papers in Language and Linguistics and 2 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in John H. McWhorter's work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (15 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (8 papers) and Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (5 papers). John H. McWhorter is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (15 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (8 papers) and Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (5 papers). John H. McWhorter collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Denmark. John H. McWhorter's co-authors include Peter Bakker and Mikael Parkvall and has published in prestigious journals such as Language, Language in Society and Lingua.

In The Last Decade

John H. McWhorter

26 papers receiving 765 citations

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Functional categories in three Atlantic creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian and Papiamentu. By Claire Lefebvre 2018 ·Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages ·John H. McWhorter	1
2	The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language 2014 ·Medical Entomology and Zoology ·John H. McWhorter	30
3	Long Time, No Song: Revisiting Fats Waller's Lost Broadway Musical 2013 ·Daedalus ·John H. McWhorter	0
4	Myths, lies, and half-truths of language usage 2012 ·Medical Entomology and Zoology ·John H. McWhorter	0
5	What else happened to English? A brief for the Celtic hypothesis 2009 ·English Language and Linguistics ·John H. McWhorter	11
6	Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English 2008 ·Medical Entomology and Zoology ·John H. McWhorter	18
7	Language Interrupted: Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars 2007 ·Medical Entomology and Zoology ·John H. McWhorter	66
8	Defining Creole 2005 ·John H. McWhorter	50
9	Twice as meaningful: Reduplication in pidgins, creoles and other contact languages. Ed. by Silvia Kouwenberg. (Westminster creolistics series 8.) London: Battlebridge Publications, 2003. Pp. v, 330. ISBN 1903292026. £25. 2004 ·Language ·John H. McWhorter	1
10	The syntax of spoken Arabic: A comparative study of Moroccan, Egyptian, Syrian, and Kuwaiti dialects. By Kristen Brustad. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000. Pp. 442. ISBN 0878407898. $39.95. 2004 ·Language ·John H. McWhorter	1
11	The power of Babel : a natural history of language 2003 ·Medical Entomology and Zoology ·John H. McWhorter	62
12	12. PIDGINS AND CREOLES AS MODELS OF LANGUAGE CHANGE: THE STATE OF THE ART 2003 ·Annual Review of Applied Linguistics ·John H. McWhorter	3
13	What people ask David Gil and why: Rejoinder to the replies 2001 ·Linguistic Typology ·John H. McWhorter	7
14	The worlds simplest grammars are creole grammars 2001 ·Linguistic Typology ·John H. McWhorter	215
15	Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America 2000 ·Medical Entomology and Zoology ·John H. McWhorter	175
16	Word on the street : debunking the myth of "pure" standard english 2000 ·Medical Entomology and Zoology ·John H. McWhorter	22
17	Identifying the Creole Prototype: Vindicating a Typological Class 1998 ·Language ·John H. McWhorter	122
18	Wasting Energy on an Illusion: Six Months Later 1997 ·The Black Scholar ·John H. McWhorter	8
19	Towards a new model of creole genesis 1997 ·Medical Entomology and Zoology ·John H. McWhorter	54
20	The scarcity of Spanish-based creoles explained 1995 ·Language in Society ·John H. McWhorter	17

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