Robert D. Borsley

2.2k total citations
70 papers, 769 citations indexed

About

Robert D. Borsley is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert D. Borsley has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 769 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Language and Linguistics, 27 papers in Linguistics and Language and 19 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Robert D. Borsley's work include Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (38 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (24 papers) and Linguistics and language evolution (16 papers). Robert D. Borsley is often cited by papers focused on Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (38 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (24 papers) and Linguistics and language evolution (16 papers). Robert D. Borsley collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and Canada. Robert D. Borsley's co-authors include Maggie Tallerman, David Willis, Marı́a Luisa Rivero, Anne Abeillé, Kersti Börjars, Ian Roberts, Richard Ingham, Andreas Kathol, Adam Przepiórkowski and M. Teresa Espinal and has published in prestigious journals such as Language, Linguistic Inquiry and Lingua.

In The Last Decade

Robert D. Borsley

62 papers receiving 586 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Robert D. Borsley United Kingdom 17 680 293 277 163 82 70 769
Sam Mchombo United States 10 676 1.0× 309 1.1× 270 1.0× 213 1.3× 111 1.4× 21 813
Steven Franks United States 13 639 0.9× 276 0.9× 174 0.6× 165 1.0× 79 1.0× 42 728
Roumyana Izvorski United States 6 517 0.8× 200 0.7× 195 0.7× 219 1.3× 93 1.1× 10 658
Ken Safir United States 13 587 0.9× 288 1.0× 148 0.5× 153 0.9× 116 1.4× 23 650
Bas Aarts United Kingdom 15 614 0.9× 201 0.7× 286 1.0× 202 1.2× 52 0.6× 40 782
Joseph Emonds Czechia 7 616 0.9× 274 0.9× 199 0.7× 204 1.3× 87 1.1× 34 706
Wolfgang Sternefeld Germany 12 463 0.7× 255 0.9× 128 0.5× 131 0.8× 67 0.8× 24 579
Rolf Noyer United States 8 834 1.2× 357 1.2× 329 1.2× 367 2.3× 91 1.1× 10 916
Henk van Riemsdijk Netherlands 11 837 1.2× 391 1.3× 318 1.1× 223 1.4× 123 1.5× 16 918
Susana Béjar Canada 9 480 0.7× 170 0.6× 150 0.5× 122 0.7× 78 1.0× 15 525

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert D. Borsley

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All Works

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Borsley, Robert D., et al.. (2014). The comparative correlative construction in Modern Standard Arabic. Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. 1 indexed citations
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Borsley, Robert D.. (2013). On the nature of Welsh unbounded dependencies. Lingua. 133. 1–29. 5 indexed citations
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Borsley, Robert D.. (2011). Constructions, functional heads and comparative correlatives. Open Access at Essex (University of Essex). 6 indexed citations
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Borsley, Robert D.. (2006). A linear approach to negative prominence. Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. 60–80.
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Borsley, Robert D. & Richard Ingham. (2003). More on ‘some applied linguists’: a response to Stubbs. Lingua. 113(3). 193–196. 4 indexed citations
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Borsley, Robert D.. (2001). What do Prepositional Complementizers do?. Probus. 13(2). 5 indexed citations
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Borsley, Robert D.. (1997). Remarks and replies. Linguistic Inquiry. 28(4). 629–647. 86 indexed citations
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Borsley, Robert D., Randall Hendrick, Maggie Tallerman, et al.. (1996). The Syntax of the Celtic Languages. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 22 indexed citations
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Borsley, Robert D.. (1995). On some similarities and differences between Welsh and Syrian Arabic. Linguistics. 33(1). 99–122. 16 indexed citations
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Borsley, Robert D.. (1989). A note of ellipsis and case. Linguistic Inquiry. 20(1). 125–129. 1 indexed citations
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Borsley, Robert D.. (1989). Phrase-structure grammar and the Barriers conception of clause structure. Linguistics. 27(5). 843–864. 16 indexed citations
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Borsley, Robert D., et al.. (1988). A note on prepositoins and case marking in Polish.. Linguistic Inquiry. 19(4). 685–690. 11 indexed citations
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Borsley, Robert D.. (1987). A unified theory of syntactic categories. Lingua. 73(4). 313–318. 2 indexed citations
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Borsley, Robert D.. (1987). A note on ‘traditional treatments’ of Welsh. Journal of Linguistics. 23(1). 185–190. 1 indexed citations
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Borsley, Robert D.. (1986). Word grammar. Lingua. 69(3). 283–287. 1 indexed citations
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Borsley, Robert D.. (1986). A Note on Passives in GPSG.. 1 indexed citations
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Borsley, Robert D. & Ewa Jaworska. (1981). Some remarks on equatives and related phenomena. Repozytorium Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań). 3 indexed citations
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Borsley, Robert D.. (1970). The Languages of Middle-earth. 13–20. 2 indexed citations

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