John McWhorter

1.8k total citations
36 papers, 412 citations indexed

About

John McWhorter is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, John McWhorter has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 412 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Linguistics and Language, 16 papers in Language and Linguistics and 4 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in John McWhorter's work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (14 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (6 papers) and Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (6 papers). John McWhorter is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (14 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (6 papers) and Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (6 papers). John McWhorter collaborates with scholars based in United States. John McWhorter's co-authors include Jeff Good, Mikael Parkvall, Jeff M. Szychowski and Larry R. Hearld and has published in prestigious journals such as Language, Journal of Healthcare Management and Journal of Organizational Behavior Management.

In The Last Decade

John McWhorter

33 papers receiving 348 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John McWhorter United States 11 283 272 69 69 34 36 412
George Tucker Childs United States 11 172 0.6× 218 0.8× 169 2.4× 34 0.5× 32 0.9× 37 360
Frederic G. Cassidy South Sudan 9 171 0.6× 213 0.8× 48 0.7× 73 1.1× 31 0.9× 45 383
Christopher Miller Canada 5 251 0.9× 239 0.9× 72 1.0× 11 0.2× 60 1.8× 8 347
Douglas A. Kibbee United States 10 164 0.6× 190 0.7× 78 1.1× 14 0.2× 28 0.8× 41 316
Alfred Bammesberger Germany 6 285 1.0× 424 1.6× 86 1.2× 16 0.2× 12 0.4× 69 520
Mechthild Reh Germany 6 308 1.1× 416 1.5× 105 1.5× 29 0.4× 13 0.4× 14 519
Peter Siemund Germany 13 264 0.9× 357 1.3× 78 1.1× 18 0.3× 57 1.7× 46 463
Umberto Ansaldo Hong Kong 10 212 0.7× 177 0.7× 39 0.6× 46 0.7× 16 0.5× 30 279
Kurt Braunmüller Germany 8 145 0.5× 215 0.8× 53 0.8× 16 0.2× 25 0.7× 33 289
Fay Wouk New Zealand 12 177 0.6× 295 1.1× 82 1.2× 15 0.2× 25 0.7× 19 357

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Fields of papers citing papers by John McWhorter

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John McWhorter

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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McWhorter, John. (2022). Spoken and Sign Language Emergence: A Comparison. Languages. 7(3). 184–184. 1 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John. (2020). Revisiting Invariant am in Early African American Vernacular English. American Speech. 95(4). 379–407.
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McWhorter, John. (2013). It’s not over. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. 28(2). 409–423. 3 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John. (2013). Why noncompositional derivation isn’t boring. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. 28(1). 167–179. 3 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John & Jeff Good. (2012). A Grammar of Saramaccan Creole. 18 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John. (2011). Tying up loose ends. Diachronica. 28(1). 82–117. 8 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John. (2008). Hither and thither in Saramaccan Creole. Studies in Language. 32(1). 163–195. 1 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John. (2007). Language Interrupted. 68 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John. (2004). Doing Our Own Thing. 6 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John & Mikael Parkvall. (2002). Pas tout à fait du français : Une étude créole. 25(1). 179–231. 7 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John. (2002). What happened to English?. Diachronica. 19(2). 217–272. 47 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John. (2000). Review article:Strange bedfellows. Diachronica. 17(2). 389–432. 7 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John. (1995). Sisters Under the Skin. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. 10(2). 289–333. 29 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John. (1994). From Focus Marker to Copula in Swahili. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 20(2). 57–57. 5 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John. (1994). Rejoinder to Derek Bickerton. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. 9(1). 79–93. 4 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John. (1993). Review of Joseph & Zwicky (1990): When verbs collide: Papers from the 1990 Ohio State Mini-Conference on Serial Verbs. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. 8(2). 310–314. 1 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John. (1992). NI and the Copula System in Swahili. Diachronica. 9(1). 15–46. 6 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John, et al.. (1978). ENERGY SAVINGS IN INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION THROUGH FEEDBACK AND REINFORCEMENT. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management. 1(3). 181–191. 23 indexed citations

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