Robert I. Binnick

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Robert I. Binnick is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert I. Binnick has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Language and Linguistics, 2 papers in Linguistics and Language and 2 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Robert I. Binnick's work include Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (7 papers), Lexicography and Language Studies (4 papers) and Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (4 papers). Robert I. Binnick is often cited by papers focused on Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (7 papers), Lexicography and Language Studies (4 papers) and Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (4 papers). Robert I. Binnick collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Robert I. Binnick's co-authors include George Lakoff and has published in prestigious journals such as Language, Lingua and Journal of English Linguistics.

In The Last Decade

Robert I. Binnick

15 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Towards an analysis of discourse: The English used by tea... 1976 2026 1992 2009 1976 250 500 750 1000
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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.

  1. Towards an analysis of discourse: The English used by teachers and pupils
    1976 1.1k citations Robert I. Binnick Lingua profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Robert I. Binnick Canada 7 879 408 365 306 280 22 1.4k
Anne Lazaraton United States 15 1.1k 1.2× 304 0.7× 635 1.7× 439 1.4× 205 0.7× 27 1.5k
Willis J. Edmondson Germany 10 1.0k 1.2× 211 0.5× 641 1.8× 415 1.4× 190 0.7× 22 1.4k
Wolfgang Lörscher Germany 8 611 0.7× 591 1.4× 309 0.8× 345 1.1× 101 0.4× 16 1.3k
Margaret S. Steffensen United States 12 634 0.7× 334 0.8× 808 2.2× 667 2.2× 358 1.3× 23 1.4k
Fritz Sang Germany 6 895 1.0× 329 0.8× 563 1.5× 528 1.7× 95 0.3× 11 1.4k
Herbert W. Seliger United States 12 990 1.1× 272 0.7× 578 1.6× 522 1.7× 152 0.5× 21 1.4k
Wilga M. Rivers United States 18 1.2k 1.4× 470 1.2× 696 1.9× 684 2.2× 112 0.4× 55 1.8k
Carol Herron United States 21 1.4k 1.6× 456 1.1× 740 2.0× 728 2.4× 227 0.8× 42 1.9k
Earl W. Stevick Israel 15 673 0.8× 224 0.5× 366 1.0× 290 0.9× 132 0.5× 58 983
Christopher Brumfit United Kingdom 21 1.1k 1.3× 630 1.5× 928 2.5× 603 2.0× 154 0.6× 75 1.9k

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All Works

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Binnick, Robert I.. (2012). The Past Tenses of the Mongolian Verb. 7 indexed citations
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Binnick, Robert I.. (2012). The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect. Oxford University Press eBooks. 158 indexed citations
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Binnick, Robert I.. (2009). Altaic hypotaxis and the expression of rhetorical relations. 34. 1 indexed citations
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Binnick, Robert I.. (2006). Used to and Habitual Aspect in English. Style. 40. 33. 8 indexed citations
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Binnick, Robert I.. (2006). The Project on Annotated Bibliography of Contemporary Research in Tense, Grammatical Aspect, Aktionsart, and Related Areas - Bibliographic Entries. 1 indexed citations
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Binnick, Robert I.. (1991). Time and the Verb. 129 indexed citations
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Binnick, Robert I.. (1981). Modern linguistics: The results of Chomsky's revolution By Neil Smith andDeirdre Wilson (review). Language. 57(1). 182–183. 1 indexed citations
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Binnick, Robert I.. (1978). On The Underlying Tense of Deverbatives. Language. 54(2). 289–299. 1 indexed citations
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Binnick, Robert I.. (1977). Syntax . By Peter W. Culicover. New York: Academic Press, 1976. Pp. xi, 316.. Language. 53(3). 667–669. 1 indexed citations
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Binnick, Robert I.. (1977). Mongol syntax and Yngve's depth hypthesis. Paper in Linguistics. 10(3-4). 259–274. 1 indexed citations
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Binnick, Robert I.. (1976). Towards an analysis of discourse: The English used by teachers and pupils. Lingua. 39(4). 366–368. 1082 indexed citations breakdown →
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Binnick, Robert I.. (1975). Penguin Modern Linguistics: Syntactic Theory 1: Structuralist, by Fred W. Householder (ed.), (Penguin Modern Linguistics Readings). Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972. Pp. 362. - Penguin Modern Linguistics: Communication in Face to Face Interaction, by John Laver and Sandy Hutcheson (eds.), (Penguin Modern Linguistics Readings). Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972. Pp. 418. - Penguin Modern Linguistics: Intonation, by Dwight Bolinger (ed.), (Penguin Modern Linguistics Readings). Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972. Pp. 464. - Penguin Modern Linguistics: Introducing Applied Linguistics, by S. Pit Corder, (Penguin Modern Linguistics Texts). Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973. Pp. 392. - Penguin Modern Linguistics: Second-Language Learning. Myth and Reality, by Paul Christophersen, (Penguin Modern Linguistics Texts). Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973. Pp. 110.. The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique. 20(1). 123–130. 2 indexed citations
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Binnick, Robert I., et al.. (1971). Deletion paths and the invasion of anaphoric Islands. Paper in Linguistics. 4(1). 197–198.
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Binnick, Robert I.. (1970). Studies in the derivation of predicative structures: Part I. Paper in Linguistics. 3(2). 237–339. 1 indexed citations
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Binnick, Robert I.. (1970). On the empirical content of the theory of lexical insertion∗. Paper in Linguistics. 3(1). 33–64.
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Binnick, Robert I.. (1969). Papers from the fifth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, April 18-19, 1969. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 5 indexed citations
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Binnick, Robert I.. (1969). Studies in the derivation of predicative structures. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 7 indexed citations

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