Nicholas Sobin

1.2k total citations
25 papers, 446 citations indexed

About

Nicholas Sobin is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence and Linguistics and Language. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas Sobin has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 446 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Language and Linguistics, 11 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 6 papers in Linguistics and Language. Recurrent topics in Nicholas Sobin's work include Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (16 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (10 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (7 papers). Nicholas Sobin is often cited by papers focused on Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (16 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (10 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (7 papers). Nicholas Sobin collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Cuba. Nicholas Sobin's co-authors include Howard Lasnik and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Language and Applied Psycholinguistics.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas Sobin

24 papers receiving 326 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nicholas Sobin United States 12 387 170 154 108 47 25 446
Marga Reis Germany 14 401 1.0× 168 1.0× 130 0.8× 116 1.1× 30 0.6× 44 459
Werner Abraham Netherlands 15 581 1.5× 154 0.9× 233 1.5× 190 1.8× 49 1.0× 117 664
Liejiong Xu Hong Kong 10 334 0.9× 135 0.8× 112 0.7× 138 1.3× 63 1.3× 13 382
Manuela Noske United States 6 273 0.7× 118 0.7× 132 0.9× 192 1.8× 36 0.8× 9 370
Stuart Robinson Netherlands 8 275 0.7× 121 0.7× 100 0.6× 82 0.8× 38 0.8× 12 334
Chris Wilder Germany 8 323 0.8× 137 0.8× 95 0.6× 97 0.9× 33 0.7× 11 359
Jacqueline Guéron France 11 439 1.1× 171 1.0× 138 0.9× 143 1.3× 54 1.1× 26 505
Malte Zimmermann Germany 12 444 1.1× 163 1.0× 155 1.0× 224 2.1× 57 1.2× 51 528
Jila Ghomeshi Canada 7 320 0.8× 117 0.7× 116 0.8× 112 1.0× 30 0.6× 12 367
Günther Grewendorf Germany 10 386 1.0× 174 1.0× 120 0.8× 113 1.0× 28 0.6× 37 454

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nicholas Sobin

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicholas Sobin

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sobin, Nicholas. (2020). Directing Syntactic Traffic. Syntax. 23(3). 241–274. 1 indexed citations
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Sobin, Nicholas. (2016). The halting problem. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America. 1. 3–3. 3 indexed citations
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Sobin, Nicholas. (2016). The EPP as Argument Structure Requirements on Functional Verbal Heads. 5(3). 2 indexed citations
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Sobin, Nicholas. (2014). Th/Ex, Agreement, and Case in Expletive Sentences. Syntax. 17(4). 385–416. 10 indexed citations
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Sobin, Nicholas. (2011). Syntactic Analysis: The Basics. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 15 indexed citations
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Sobin, Nicholas. (2010). Echo Questions in the Minimalist Program. Linguistic Inquiry. 41(1). 131–148. 17 indexed citations
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Sobin, Nicholas. (2008). Do So and VP. Linguistic Inquiry. 39(1). 147–160. 9 indexed citations
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Sobin, Nicholas. (2004). Expletive Constructions Are Not “Lower Right Corner” Movement Constructions. Linguistic Inquiry. 35(3). 503–508. 11 indexed citations
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Sobin, Nicholas. (2003). Negative Inversion as Nonmovement. Syntax. 6(2). 183–212. 18 indexed citations
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Sobin, Nicholas. (2002). Determiners in genitive constructions. Lingua. 112(8). 597–618. 3 indexed citations
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Sobin, Nicholas. (2002). The Comp-trace effect, the adverb effect and minimal CP. Journal of Linguistics. 38(3). 527–560. 31 indexed citations
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Lasnik, Howard & Nicholas Sobin. (2000). The Who/Whom Puzzle: On The Preservation Of An Archaic Feature. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. 18(2). 343–371. 44 indexed citations
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Sobin, Nicholas. (2000). Minimal CP And The Adverb Effect. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations
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Sobin, Nicholas. (1997). Agreement, default rules, and grammatical viruses. Linguistic Inquiry. 28(2). 318–343. 88 indexed citations
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Sobin, Nicholas. (1990). On the syntax of english echo questions. Lingua. 81(2-3). 141–167. 27 indexed citations
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Sobin, Nicholas. (1987). The variable status of comp-trace phenomena. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. 5(1). 33–60. 59 indexed citations
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Sobin, Nicholas. (1985). Case assignment in Ukrainian morphological passive construction. Linguistic Inquiry. 16(4). 649–662. 31 indexed citations
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Sobin, Nicholas. (1976). Texas Spanish and lexical borrowing. Paper in Linguistics. 9(1-2). 15–47. 8 indexed citations
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Sobin, Nicholas, et al.. (1971). On the inadequacy of some recent syntactic proposals. Paper in Linguistics. 4(3-4). 559–575. 2 indexed citations

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