Rik van Gijn

1.4k total citations
32 papers, 129 citations indexed

About

Rik van Gijn is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language and Cultural Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Rik van Gijn has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 129 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Language and Linguistics, 15 papers in Linguistics and Language and 10 papers in Cultural Studies. Recurrent topics in Rik van Gijn's work include Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (15 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (14 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (10 papers). Rik van Gijn is often cited by papers focused on Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (15 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (14 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (10 papers). Rik van Gijn collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland. Rik van Gijn's co-authors include Fernando Zúñiga, Pieter Muysken, Peter Ranacher, Robert Weibel, Balthasar Bickel, Katharina Haude, Geertje van Bergen, Leonardo Arias, Sietze J. Norder and Mark Stoneking and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of The Royal Society Interface and Journal of Pragmatics.

In The Last Decade

Rik van Gijn

24 papers receiving 117 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rik van Gijn Netherlands 7 78 62 37 35 25 32 129
Paul Sidwell Australia 7 57 0.7× 65 1.0× 45 1.2× 32 0.9× 27 1.1× 30 151
John Mansfield Australia 8 84 1.1× 54 0.9× 49 1.3× 28 0.8× 29 1.2× 24 151
Thiago Costa Chacon Brazil 7 60 0.8× 45 0.7× 21 0.6× 52 1.5× 31 1.2× 18 126
Aymeric Daval-Markussen Denmark 5 80 1.0× 110 1.8× 19 0.5× 39 1.1× 7 0.3× 10 131
Anvita Abbi India 8 87 1.1× 69 1.1× 41 1.1× 13 0.4× 36 1.4× 24 161
Marlyse Baptista United States 7 115 1.5× 104 1.7× 12 0.3× 17 0.5× 21 0.8× 32 178
Stephen A. Marlett United States 8 140 1.8× 102 1.6× 64 1.7× 15 0.4× 34 1.4× 60 188
Jason Zentz United States 6 80 1.0× 64 1.0× 51 1.4× 76 2.2× 11 0.4× 10 183
Hugo Schuchardt 6 92 1.2× 88 1.4× 42 1.1× 31 0.9× 21 0.8× 12 145
Oleg Belyaev Russia 5 54 0.7× 48 0.8× 14 0.4× 52 1.5× 40 1.6× 13 134

Countries citing papers authored by Rik van Gijn

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rik van Gijn

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rik van Gijn

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Rik van Gijn. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Rik van Gijn based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Rik van Gijn. Rik van Gijn is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ranacher, Peter, Robert Forkel, Matthias Urban, et al.. (2025). A global and interoperable dataset of linguistic distributions derived from the Atlas of the World’s Languages. Scientific Data. 12(1). 1466–1466.
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Gijn, Rik van, et al.. (2023). Lexically driven patterns of contact in alignment systems of languages of the northern Upper Amazon. Open Linguistics. 9(1). 1 indexed citations
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Backus, Ad, et al.. (2023). The Netherlands Urban Field Station. Linguistics in the Netherlands. 40. 285–292.
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Gijn, Rik van, Sietze J. Norder, Leonardo Arias, et al.. (2022). The social lives of isolates (and small language families): the case of the Northwest Amazon. Interface Focus. 13(1). 20220054–20220054. 2 indexed citations
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Arias, Leonardo, Nicholas Q. Emlen, Sietze J. Norder, et al.. (2022). Interpreting mismatches between linguistic and genetic patterns among speakers of Tanimuka (Eastern Tukanoan) and Yukuna (Arawakan). Interface Focus. 13(1). 20220056–20220056. 6 indexed citations
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Norder, Sietze J., et al.. (2022). glottospace: R package for language mapping andgeospatial analysis of linguistic and cultural data. The Journal of Open Source Software. 7(77). 4303–4303. 8 indexed citations
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Emlen, Nicholas Q., Leonardo Arias, & Rik van Gijn. (2022). Multidisciplinary approaches to the Amazonian past: introduction to the theme issue. Interface Focus. 13(1). 1 indexed citations
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Ranacher, Peter, et al.. (2021). Can Bayesian phylogeography reconstruct migrations and expansions in linguistic evolution?. Royal Society Open Science. 8(1). 201079–201079. 9 indexed citations
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Ranacher, Peter, et al.. (2021). Contact-tracing in cultural evolution: a Bayesian mixture model to detect geographic areas of language contact. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 18(181). 20201031–20201031. 19 indexed citations
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Ranacher, Peter, Rik van Gijn, & Curdin Derungs. (2017). Identifying probable pathways of language diffusion in South America. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 2 indexed citations
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Gijn, Rik van, et al.. (2015). Subordination strategies in Tupian languages. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi Ciências Humanas. 10(2). 297–324.
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Muysken, Pieter & Rik van Gijn. (2015). River thinking: Arawakan and Pano-Tacanan in the Upper Amazon Transition Area. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich).
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Gijn, Rik van & Jeremy Hammond. (2014). Information structure and reference tracking in complex sentences. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 105. 291–308. 1 indexed citations
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Gijn, Rik van. (2012). Switch attention (aka switch reference) in South American temporal clauses: facilitating oral transmission. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 10(1). 112–127. 4 indexed citations
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Gijn, Rik van. (2011). Pronominal affixes, the best of both worlds: the case of Yurakaré1. Transactions of the Philological Society. 109(1). 41–58. 1 indexed citations
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Gijn, Rik van. (2011). Subjects and Objects: A Semantic Account of Yurakaré Argument Structure. International Journal of American Linguistics. 77(4). 595–621. 2 indexed citations
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Gijn, Rik van. (2010). Complementation: a cross-linguistic typology. Studies in Language. 34(1). 187–194. 1 indexed citations
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Gijn, Rik van. (2010). Subordination in native South American languages. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 97. 315. 5 indexed citations
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Gijn, Rik van. (2010). Middle voice and ideophones, a diachronic connection. Studies in Language. 34(2). 273–297. 6 indexed citations
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Gijn, Rik van. (2004). Number in the Yurakaré noun phrase. Linguistics in the Netherlands. 21. 69–79. 2 indexed citations

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