Michel DeGraff

2.3k total citations
29 papers, 691 citations indexed

About

Michel DeGraff is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics and Religious studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Michel DeGraff has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 691 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Linguistics and Language, 16 papers in Language and Linguistics and 7 papers in Religious studies. Recurrent topics in Michel DeGraff's work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (11 papers), Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (11 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (9 papers). Michel DeGraff is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (11 papers), Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (11 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (9 papers). Michel DeGraff collaborates with scholars based in United States. Michel DeGraff's co-authors include Glenda Stump, Joāo Costa, María Lobo, J. Villaseñor, Cheryl Zoll, Norvin Richards, David Embick, Enoch O. Aboh and Haynes Miller and has published in prestigious journals such as Language, Behavioral and Brain Sciences and Language in Society.

In The Last Decade

Michel DeGraff

26 papers receiving 578 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michel DeGraff United States 11 427 403 157 120 118 29 691
Almeida Jacqueline Toribio United States 16 542 1.3× 585 1.5× 178 1.1× 37 0.3× 195 1.7× 45 902
Nigel Love South Africa 9 146 0.3× 293 0.7× 80 0.5× 92 0.8× 171 1.4× 41 514
Anna Siewierska United Kingdom 16 299 0.7× 761 1.9× 70 0.4× 74 0.6× 223 1.9× 55 864
Anthony J. Naro Brazil 14 644 1.5× 706 1.8× 66 0.4× 63 0.5× 324 2.7× 40 974
René Appel Netherlands 11 492 1.2× 500 1.2× 108 0.7× 39 0.3× 55 0.5× 19 759
Freek Van de Velde Belgium 14 274 0.6× 564 1.4× 67 0.4× 82 0.7× 220 1.9× 85 796
Abdelâli Bentahila Morocco 12 734 1.7× 642 1.6× 134 0.9× 22 0.2× 69 0.6× 16 1.0k
Rachel Nordlinger Australia 14 230 0.5× 386 1.0× 67 0.4× 94 0.8× 150 1.3× 59 587
Magnus Huber Germany 12 329 0.8× 350 0.9× 57 0.4× 53 0.4× 92 0.8× 27 530
Michael Meeuwis Belgium 11 239 0.6× 328 0.8× 59 0.4× 47 0.4× 100 0.8× 83 538

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michel DeGraff

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michel DeGraff

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All Works

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DeGraff, Michel. (2020). Toward Racial Justice in Linguistics: The Case of Creole Studies (Response to Charity Hudley et al.). Language. 96(4). e292–e306. 9 indexed citations
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DeGraff, Michel. (2019). Decolonizing Foreign Language Education. 40 indexed citations
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DeGraff, Michel. (2008). Morphology and Word Order in “Creolization” and Beyond. Oxford University Press eBooks. 18 indexed citations
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Costa, Joāo, et al.. (2007). Tense features and argument structure in Capeverdean predicates. 11 indexed citations
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DeGraff, Michel. (2005). Do Creole languages constitute an exceptional typological class?. Revue française de linguistique appliquée. Vol. X(1). 11–24. 6 indexed citations
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DeGraff, Michel. (2004). Against Creole Exceptionalism (Redux). Language. 80(4). 834–839. 15 indexed citations
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DeGraff, Michel. (2003). Against Creole exceptionalism. Language. 79(2). 391–410. 117 indexed citations
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DeGraff, Michel. (2001). Language Creation and Language Change: Creolization, Diachrony, and Development. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 213 indexed citations
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Villaseñor, J., et al.. (2001). Morphological Optionality in Tagalog Aspectual Reduplication. 8 indexed citations
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DeGraff, Michel. (1996). UG and acquisition in pidginization and creolization. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 19(4). 723–724. 4 indexed citations
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DeGraff, Michel. (1994). Review of Lefebvre (1992): Travaux de recherche sur le creole haïtien, no. 10. Word order and possession in relexification. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. 9(2). 376–384. 5 indexed citations
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DeGraff, Michel. (1994). Review of Lefebvre (1992): Travaux de recherche sur le créole haïtien, No. 8 The clausal determiners of Haitian and Fon. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. 9(2). 370–376. 4 indexed citations
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DeGraff, Michel. (1993). A riddle on negation in Haitian. Probus. 5(1-2). 34 indexed citations
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DeGraff, Michel. (1992). Creole grammars and acquisition of syntax : the case of Haitian. Scholarly Commons (University of Pennsylvania). 11 indexed citations
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DeGraff, Michel. (1992). The Syntax of Predication in Haitian. Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst). 22(1). 8. 7 indexed citations

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