W. Nelson Francis

14.1k citations

56 papers · 9.9k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 19

Cognitive Neuroscience top 0.2%
Developmental and Educational Psychology top 0.1%
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology top 0.2%
Artificial Intelligence top 0.5%
Language and Linguistics top 0.2%

Co-authors: Henry Kučera Mary Lois Marckworth John B. Carroll W. F. Twaddell Raven I. McDavid Sidney Smith Simeon Potter Jan Svartvik
Topics: Linguistic Variation and Morphology (11 papers)Lexicography and Language Studies (11 papers)Natural Language Processing Techniques (8 papers)
Cited by: Developmental and Educational Psychology Cognitive Neuroscience Linguistics and Language
Journals: Language College Composition and Communication Lingua
Partner nations: United States

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W. Nelson Francis

50 papers receiving 8.6k citations

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Computational analysis of present-day American English

1967 6.3k citations W. Nelson Francis et al. profile →
FREQUENCY ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH USAGE: LEXICON AND GRAMMAR

1983 1.7k citations W. Nelson Francis et al. profile →
The alchemy of English: The spread, functions, and models of non-native Englishes. By Braj B. Kachru Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1990 (1986). Pp. xii, 200. $12.95.

1992 695 citations W. Nelson Francis Language profile →

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1	Historical linguistics 1993 . Ed. by Henning Andersen. (Current issues in linguistic theory, 124.) Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1995. Pp. ix, 460. 1997 ·Language ·W. Nelson Francis	40
2	The science of words . By George A. Miller Rev. edn. New York: Scientific American Library, 1996. Pp. ix, 276. 1997 ·Language ·W. Nelson Francis	134
3	Things, thoughts, words, and actions: The problem of language in late eighteenth-century British rhetorical theory. By H. Lewis Ulman. Carbondale & Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994. Pp. xi, 240. 1996 ·Language ·W. Nelson Francis	17
4	‘Heartland English’ : Variation and transition in the American Midwest. Ed. by Timothy C. Frazer Tuscaloosa & London: University of Alabama Press, 1993. Pp. xi, 310. Cloth $27.95. 1995 ·Language ·W. Nelson Francis	20
5	Practical lexicography: Principles and methods of dictionary-making. By Bo Svensén. Translated from the Swedish by John Sykes and Kirsten Schofield. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xiii, 285. Cloth $60.00. 1995 ·Language ·W. Nelson Francis	3
6	Text and technology: In honour of John Sinclair. Ed. by Mona Baker, Gill Francis and Elena Tognini-Bonelli. Philadelphia & Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1993. Pp. xii, 361. 1994 ·Language ·W. Nelson Francis	182
7	Introduction to Early Modern English . By Manfred Görlach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xxix, 456. Cloth $79.50, paper $27.95. 1993 ·Language ·W. Nelson Francis	60
8	The English infinitive . By Patrick J. Duffley (The English language series, 19.) London & New York: Longman, 1992. Pp. vi, 168. 1993 ·Language ·W. Nelson Francis	49
9	The London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English: Description and research. Edited by Jan Svartvik. (Lund studies in English 82.) Lund: Lund University Press, 1990. Pp. 350. 1992 ·Language ·W. Nelson Francis	18
10	The alchemy of English: The spread, functions, and models of non-native Englishes. By Braj B. Kachru Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1990 (1986). Pp. xii, 200. $12.95.breakdown → 1992 ·Language ·W. Nelson Francis	695
11	Historical English: On the occasion of Karl Brunner's 100th birthday. Ed. By Manfred Markus. (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft, Anglistische Reihe Band 1.) Innsbruck: Institut für Anglistik, Universität Innsbruck, 1988. Pp. xi, 244. Cloth $23.00, paper $15.00. 1990 ·Language ·W. Nelson Francis	6
12	The computational analysis of English : A corpus-based approach. Ed. by Roger Garside, Geoffrey Leech, and Geoffrey Sampson. London and New York: Longman, 1987. Pp. xii, 196. $25.95. 1989 ·Language ·W. Nelson Francis	134
13	Grammar and gender . By Dennis Baron. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986. Pp. ix, 249. 1989 ·Language ·W. Nelson Francis	3
14	Temporal adverbials in Old and Middle English . By Adam Pasicki. Lublin (Poland): Catholic University of Lublin, 1987. Pp. 340. 1989 ·Language ·W. Nelson Francis	1
15	Corpus linguistics, hard and soft : Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora. Edited by Merja Kytö, Ossi Ihalainen, and Matti Rissanen. (Language and computers: Studies in practical linguistics, 2). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1988. Pp. iii, 293. 1989 ·Language ·W. Nelson Francis	11
16	Word maps: A dialect atlas of England . By Clive Upton, Stewart Sanderson, and John Widdowson. London: Croom Helm, 1987. Pp. vii, 228. 1988 ·Language ·W. Nelson Francis	7
17	Language variety in the South . Ed. by Michael B. Montgomery and Guy Bailey. Foreword by James B. MacMillan University, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1986. Pp. xi, 427. $29.95. 1988 ·Language ·W. Nelson Francis	25
18	The politics of American English, 1776–1850. By David Simpson. Oxford: University Press, 1986. Pp. xi, 301. $24.95. 1987 ·Language ·W. Nelson Francis	4
19	Language in a black community. By Viv Edwards. (Multilingual matters, 24.) Clevedon, Avon, England: Multilingual Matters, 1986. Pp. xii, 169. Cloth £19.90, paper £7.95. 1987 ·Language ·W. Nelson Francis	30
20	The English language today . Ed. by Sidney Greenbaum. Oxford: Pergamon, 1985. Pp. xviii, 345. £12.50. 1986 ·Language ·W. Nelson Francis	23

About W. Nelson Francis

W. Nelson Francis is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics and Classics, having authored 56 papers that have together received 9.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (11 papers), Lexicography and Language Studies (11 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Developmental and Educational Psychology (3.9k citations), Cognitive Neuroscience (5.0k citations) and Linguistics and Language (1.0k citations). W. Nelson Francis has collaborated with scholars based in United States. Frequent co-authors include Henry Kučera, Mary Lois Marckworth, John B. Carroll, W. F. Twaddell, Raven I. McDavid, Sidney Smith, Simeon Potter, Jan Svartvik, Gerald M. Rubin and Robert Burchfield. Their work appears in journals such as Language, College Composition and Communication and Lingua.

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