Robert Β. Lees

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 824 citations indexed

About

Robert Β. Lees is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Β. Lees has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 824 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Language and Linguistics, 4 papers in Linguistics and Language and 2 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Robert Β. Lees's work include Lexicography and Language Studies (5 papers), Linguistics and Cultural Studies (4 papers) and Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 papers). Robert Β. Lees is often cited by papers focused on Lexicography and Language Studies (5 papers), Linguistics and Cultural Studies (4 papers) and Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 papers). Robert Β. Lees collaborates with scholars based in United States. Robert Β. Lees's co-authors include Edward S. Klima, Archibald A. Hill, Noam Chomsky, Nicholas Poppe, Jerrold M. Sadock, Morris Halle and Frances Ingemann and has published in prestigious journals such as Language, Language Learning and American Anthropologist.

In The Last Decade

Robert Β. Lees

18 papers receiving 598 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The grammar of English nominalizations

1960 335 citations Robert Β. Lees Americanae (AECID Library) profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert Β. Lees United States	10	563	319	242	203	83	21	824
Hans Marchand United States	9	552 1.0×	159 0.5×	231 1.0×	213 1.0×	46 0.6×	21	715
Edgar N. Mayer	3	578 1.0×	213 0.7×	218 0.9×	166 0.8×	150 1.8×	5	845
Roderick A. Jacobs United States	8	797 1.4×	322 1.0×	317 1.3×	243 1.2×	96 1.2×	18	1.1k
Paul Schachter United States	12	821 1.5×	336 1.1×	282 1.2×	416 2.0×	80 1.0×	26	1.0k
Stephen R. Anderson	2	728 1.3×	325 1.0×	322 1.3×	257 1.3×	82 1.0×	3	975
Dieter Wunderlich Germany	17	740 1.3×	290 0.9×	282 1.2×	220 1.1×	90 1.1×	48	924
Marion Owen United Kingdom	3	812 1.4×	309 1.0×	251 1.0×	214 1.1×	107 1.3×	7	1.0k
Peter S. Rosenbaum United States	9	1.1k 1.9×	478 1.5×	382 1.6×	312 1.5×	146 1.8×	15	1.5k
Osvaldo A. Jaeggli United States	7	788 1.4×	281 0.9×	241 1.0×	296 1.5×	143 1.7×	10	930
Jürgen Klausenburger United States	10	498 0.9×	123 0.4×	269 1.1×	232 1.1×	58 0.7×	34	725

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Lees, Robert Β.. (1973). English denominal adjectives: a generative study of the semantics of a group of high-frequency denominal adjectives in English . By Magnus Ljung. (Gothenburg studies in English, 21.) Lund: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 1970. Pp. 249. Kr 25.00.. Language. 49(3). 704–714. 4 indexed citations

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Lees, Robert Β., et al.. (1970). Studies presented to Robert B. Lees by his students. 37 indexed citations

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Lees, Robert Β.. (1967). Turkish Harmony and the Phonological Description of Assimilation. DergiPark (Istanbul University). 14. 279–297. 3 indexed citations

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Lees, Robert Β.. (1965). ON THE TESTABILITY OF LINGUISTIC PREDICATES. Linguistics. 3(12). 1 indexed citations

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Lees, Robert Β.. (1965). TWO VIEWS OF LINGUISTIC RESEARCH. Linguistics. 3(11). 2 indexed citations

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Lees, Robert Β.. (1964). Discussion of Brown and Fraser; and Brown, Fraser, and Bellugi. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 29(1). 92–92. 2 indexed citations

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Lees, Robert Β.. (1964). On Passives and Imperatives in English. 1964(46). 28–41. 3 indexed citations

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Poppe, Nicholas & Robert Β. Lees. (1963). The Phonology of Modern Standard Turkish. Language. 39(1). 141–141. 40 indexed citations

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Lees, Robert Β. & Edward S. Klima. (1963). Rules for English Pronominalization. Language. 39(1). 17–17. 93 indexed citations

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Lees, Robert Β.. (1963). The Promise of Transformational Grammar. The English Journal. 52(5). 327–327.

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Lees, Robert Β.. (1963). The Promise of Transformational Grammar. The English Journal. 52(5). 327–345. 2 indexed citations

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Hill, Archibald A. & Robert Β. Lees. (1962). The Grammar of English Nominalizations. Language. 38(4). 434–434. 79 indexed citations

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Lees, Robert Β.. (1961). SOME NEGLECTED ASPECTS OF PARSING¹. Language Learning. 11(3-4). 171–181. 1 indexed citations

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Lees, Robert Β.. (1961). Grammatical Analysis of the English Comparative Construction. WORD. 17(2). 171–185. 32 indexed citations

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Lees, Robert Β.. (1960). A Multiply Ambiguous Adjectival Construction in English. Language. 36(2). 207–207. 24 indexed citations

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Lees, Robert Β., et al.. (1960). Reviews. WORD. 16(1). 119–152. 5 indexed citations

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Lees, Robert Β.. (1960). The grammar of English nominalizations. Americanae (AECID Library). 335 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lees, Robert Β. & Noam Chomsky. (1957). Syntactic Structures. Language. 33(3). 375–375. 49 indexed citations

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Lees, Robert Β.. (1956). Shiro Hattori on Glottochronology and Proto‐Japanese. American Anthropologist. 58(1). 176–177. 1 indexed citations

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Lees, Robert Β.. (1953). The Basis of Glottochronology. Language. 29(2). 113–113. 75 indexed citations

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