John Haiman

7.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

John Haiman is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, John Haiman has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Language and Linguistics, 13 papers in Linguistics and Language and 9 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in John Haiman's work include Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (16 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (12 papers) and Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (5 papers). John Haiman is often cited by papers focused on Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (16 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (12 papers) and Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (5 papers). John Haiman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. John Haiman's co-authors include Sandra A. Thompson and Paola Benincà and has published in prestigious journals such as Language, Journal of Pragmatics and Lingua.

In The Last Decade

John Haiman

46 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Iconic and Economic Motivation 1983 2026 1997 2011 1983 100 200 300
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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.

  1. Iconic and Economic Motivation
    1983 337 citations John Haiman Language profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John Haiman United States 20 1.6k 931 579 342 316 55 2.1k
Suzanne Kemmer United States 10 1.1k 0.7× 671 0.7× 411 0.7× 366 1.1× 169 0.5× 16 1.5k
Talmy Givón United States 12 1.2k 0.7× 491 0.5× 377 0.7× 304 0.9× 175 0.6× 16 1.5k
Östen Dahl Sweden 19 1.8k 1.1× 637 0.7× 698 1.2× 588 1.7× 191 0.6× 53 2.3k
Arnold M. Zwicky United States 23 1.6k 1.0× 922 1.0× 732 1.3× 721 2.1× 197 0.6× 90 2.3k
Scott DeLancey United States 19 1.7k 1.0× 730 0.8× 670 1.2× 418 1.2× 168 0.5× 60 2.2k
Knud Lambrecht United States 12 1.7k 1.0× 761 0.8× 539 0.9× 533 1.6× 402 1.3× 20 2.0k
Ken Hale United States 16 1.4k 0.9× 437 0.5× 593 1.0× 508 1.5× 200 0.6× 32 1.7k
T. Givón United States 24 1.9k 1.2× 937 1.0× 536 0.9× 536 1.6× 303 1.0× 55 2.7k
Geert Booij Netherlands 27 1.7k 1.0× 1.0k 1.1× 817 1.4× 764 2.2× 161 0.5× 96 2.2k
Tania Kuteva Germany 16 2.1k 1.3× 686 0.7× 978 1.7× 326 1.0× 174 0.6× 29 2.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Haiman

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Haiman

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Haiman, John. (2010). The creation of new words. Linguistics. 48(3). 1 indexed citations
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Haiman, John, et al.. (2005). The Rhaeto-Romance Languages. Directory of Open access Books (OAPEN Foundation). 7 indexed citations
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Haiman, John. (1995). Grammatical Signs of the Divided Self. 213. 2 indexed citations
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Haiman, John & Paola Benincà. (1992). The Rhaeto-Romance languages. BiblioBoard Library Catalog (Open Research Library). 68 indexed citations
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Haiman, John. (1991). From V/2 to subject clitics. 135. 1 indexed citations
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Haiman, John. (1983). Iconic and Economic Motivation. Language. 59(4). 781–819. 337 indexed citations breakdown →
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Haiman, John. (1980). The iconicity of grammar: Isomorphism and motivation. Language. 56(3). 515–540. 248 indexed citations
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Haiman, John. (1980). Dictionaries and encyclopedias. Lingua. 50(4). 329–357. 91 indexed citations
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Haiman, John. (1978). Conditionals are Topics. Language. 54(3). 564–589. 61 indexed citations
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Haiman, John. (1978). Conditionals are topics. Language. 54(3). 564–589. 208 indexed citations
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Haiman, John. (1977). Reinterpretation. Language. 53(2). 312–328. 1 indexed citations
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Haiman, John. (1977). Reinterpretation. Language. 53(2). 312–328. 1 indexed citations
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Haiman, John. (1974). Targets and Syntactic Change. 40 indexed citations
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Haiman, John. (1972). Phonological Targets and Unmarked Structures. Language. 48(2). 365–365. 14 indexed citations
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Haiman, John. (1972). Ablaut in the Hua Verb. Oceanic Linguistics. 11(1). 32–32. 5 indexed citations
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Haiman, John. (1971). Targets and Paradigmatic Borrowing in Romantsch. Language. 47(4). 797–797. 4 indexed citations

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