Michael Fortescue

2.9k total citations
50 papers, 520 citations indexed

About

Michael Fortescue is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Linguistics and Language. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Fortescue has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 520 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Language and Linguistics, 12 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 10 papers in Linguistics and Language. Recurrent topics in Michael Fortescue's work include Linguistics and language evolution (11 papers), Linguistics and Cultural Studies (11 papers) and Linguistic Variation and Morphology (9 papers). Michael Fortescue is often cited by papers focused on Linguistics and language evolution (11 papers), Linguistics and Cultural Studies (11 papers) and Linguistic Variation and Morphology (9 papers). Michael Fortescue collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United States and United Kingdom. Michael Fortescue's co-authors include Steven A. Jacobson, Edward J. Vajda, Kasper Boye, Silvia Martínez‐Ferreiro and J. Lachlan Mackenzie and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Pragmatics, Lingua and Aphasiology.

In The Last Decade

Michael Fortescue

44 papers receiving 400 citations

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Michael Fortescue 250 114 112 72 70 50 520
Jane Simpson 325 1.3× 149 1.3× 339 3.0× 88 1.2× 10 0.1× 61 757
Patrick McConvell 240 1.0× 128 1.1× 336 3.0× 37 0.5× 8 0.1× 51 799
Hannah J. Haynie 84 0.3× 94 0.8× 70 0.6× 43 0.6× 12 0.2× 23 315
Jean-Marie Hombert 100 0.4× 370 3.2× 252 2.3× 204 2.8× 14 0.2× 23 801
Steven Hartman 127 0.5× 51 0.4× 58 0.5× 41 0.6× 6 0.1× 28 312
Andrew Garrett 333 1.3× 228 2.0× 279 2.5× 119 1.7× 5 0.1× 30 617
Samuel H. Elbert 53 0.2× 76 0.7× 95 0.8× 23 0.3× 11 0.2× 46 426
David Camps 120 0.5× 29 0.3× 24 0.2× 8 0.1× 61 0.9× 17 436
Karim Ouattara 69 0.3× 92 0.8× 30 0.3× 32 0.4× 4 0.1× 23 854
Bradley Walker 39 0.2× 58 0.5× 9 0.1× 34 0.5× 18 0.3× 23 342

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Martínez‐Ferreiro, Silvia, et al.. (2019). Non-fluent aphasia in a polysynthetic language: five case studies. Aphasiology. 34(6). 675–694. 8 indexed citations
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Fortescue, Michael. (2017). ‘Correlating Palaeo-Siberian languages and populations: Recent advances in the Uralo-Siberian hypothesis’. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 1 indexed citations
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Fortescue, Michael. (2017). The Abstraction Engine: Extracting patterns in language, mind and brain. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 1 indexed citations
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Fortescue, Michael. (2017). Icelandic, Faroese and Greenlandic orientation systems: all absolute?. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia. 1–19. 1 indexed citations
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Fortescue, Michael. (2016). Comparative Nivkh Dictionary. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 4 indexed citations
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Fortescue, Michael. (2013). Eskimo-Aleut hunter-gatherer migrations from the linguistic evidence. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 1 indexed citations
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Fortescue, Michael. (2010). Similitude: A conceptual category. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia. 42(2). 117–142. 17 indexed citations
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Fortescue, Michael. (2007). The origins of the Wakashan classificatory verbs of location and handling. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 3 indexed citations
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Fortescue, Michael. (2007). Comparative Wakashan Dictionary. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 7 indexed citations
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Fortescue, Michael. (2007). The typological position and theoretical status of polysynthesis. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 5(1). 1–1. 3 indexed citations
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Fortescue, Michael. (2006). How far west into Asia have Eskimo languages been spoken, and which ones?. Études/Inuit/Studies. 28(2). 159–183. 2 indexed citations
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Fortescue, Michael. (2005). Comparative Chukotko-Kamchatkan Dictionary. 16 indexed citations
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Fortescue, Michael. (2003). Diachronic typology and the genealogical unity of Chukotko-Kamchatkan. Linguistic Typology. 7(1). 6 indexed citations
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Fortescue, Michael. (1998). Language relations across Bering Strait : reappraising the archaeological and linguistic evidence. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 52 indexed citations
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Fortescue, Michael. (1994). How ‘concrete’` is West Greenlandic?. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia. 27(1). 131–146.
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Fortescue, Michael. (1993). Eskimo word order variation and its contact-induced perturbation. Journal of Linguistics. 29(2). 267–289. 9 indexed citations
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Fortescue, Michael. (1992). The development of morphophonemic complexity in Eskimo languages. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia. 25(1). 5–27. 4 indexed citations
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Fortescue, Michael. (1988). Eskimo orientation systems. 11. 16 indexed citations
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Fortescue, Michael. (1980). A Discourse Production Model for 'Twenty Questions'. 3 indexed citations

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