William Croft

25.3k total citations · 6 hit papers
120 papers, 8.2k citations indexed

About

William Croft is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence and Linguistics and Language. According to data from OpenAlex, William Croft has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 8.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Language and Linguistics, 34 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 31 papers in Linguistics and Language. Recurrent topics in William Croft's work include Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (47 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (31 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (30 papers). William Croft is often cited by papers focused on Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (47 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (31 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (30 papers). William Croft collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. William Croft's co-authors include Damian Cruse, Richard A. Blythe, Bruce B. Jarvis, Marilyn May Vihman, G. J. Baxter, Morten H. Christiansen, Keith T. Poole, Joan Bybee, Nick C. Ellis and Tom Schoenemann and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

William Croft

117 papers receiving 6.9k citations

Hit Papers

Cognitive Linguistics 2000 2026 2008 2017 2004 2001 2001 2000 2009 250 500 750

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William Croft United States 33 5.4k 3.3k 2.0k 1.9k 1.4k 120 8.2k
Joan Bybee United States 31 6.4k 1.2× 4.5k 1.4× 3.4k 1.7× 2.6k 1.4× 1.1k 0.8× 65 10.1k
Adele Ε. Goldberg United States 36 6.3k 1.2× 3.4k 1.0× 1.2k 0.6× 2.9k 1.5× 809 0.6× 102 9.8k
Norbert Hornstein United States 30 3.8k 0.7× 1.4k 0.4× 998 0.5× 2.0k 1.0× 769 0.5× 79 5.8k
Ronald W. Langacker United States 31 6.5k 1.2× 5.0k 1.5× 1.1k 0.6× 1.7k 0.9× 506 0.4× 120 9.2k
Martín Haspelmath Germany 39 4.4k 0.8× 1.6k 0.5× 2.0k 1.0× 1.2k 0.6× 718 0.5× 173 5.5k
Bernard Comrie Germany 32 3.5k 0.7× 1.4k 0.4× 1.4k 0.7× 1.1k 0.6× 377 0.3× 223 5.0k
Geoffrey K. Pullum United States 32 3.6k 0.7× 1.4k 0.4× 1.4k 0.7× 2.2k 1.1× 420 0.3× 118 5.3k
Sandra A. Thompson United States 37 7.1k 1.3× 3.7k 1.1× 2.0k 1.0× 3.3k 1.7× 257 0.2× 101 10.7k
Paul Kay United States 41 2.5k 0.5× 5.3k 1.6× 509 0.3× 1.1k 0.6× 494 0.3× 100 8.6k
Bernd Heine Germany 29 4.6k 0.9× 1.7k 0.5× 2.1k 1.1× 837 0.4× 533 0.4× 122 5.5k

Countries citing papers authored by William Croft

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Croft

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Croft

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of William Croft. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of William Croft 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 William Croft. William Croft is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Blythe, Richard A. & William Croft. (2021). How individuals change language. PLoS ONE. 16(6). e0252582–e0252582. 15 indexed citations
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Croft, William, et al.. (2018). Annotation of Tense and Aspect Semantics for Sentential AMR. International Conference on Computational Linguistics. 96–108. 14 indexed citations
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Croft, William, et al.. (2017). Linguistic Typology meets Universal Dependencies.. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies. 63–75. 19 indexed citations
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Croft, William, et al.. (2017). Constructions, Frames and Event Structure.. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1 indexed citations
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Youn, Hyejin, Eric Smith, Cristopher Moore, et al.. (2016). On the universal structure of human lexical semantics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(7). 1766–1771. 78 indexed citations
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Blythe, Richard A. & William Croft. (2013). S-curves and the Mechanism of Propagation in Language Change. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2013. 3 indexed citations
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Croft, William, et al.. (2012). Language universals without universal categories. Theoretical Linguistics. 38(1-2). 9 indexed citations
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Blythe, Richard A. & William Croft. (2012). S-Curves and the Mechanisms of Propagation in Language Change. Language. 88(2). 269–304. 117 indexed citations
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Croft, William, et al.. (2009). Complete chamber music. 1 indexed citations
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Hruschka, Daniel J., Morten H. Christiansen, Richard A. Blythe, et al.. (2009). Building social cognitive models of language change. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 13(11). 464–469. 40 indexed citations
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Croft, William, et al.. (2002). Clinical confirmation of trichothecene mycotoxicosis in patient urine.. PubMed. 23(3). 301–20. 22 indexed citations
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Croft, William. (2001). Radical construction grammar : syntactic theory in typological perspective. Oxford University Press eBooks. 909 indexed citations breakdown →
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Croft, William, et al.. (2001). Argument linking and the commercial transaction frame in English, Russian and Japanese. Language Sciences. 23(4-5). 579–602. 6 indexed citations
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Croft, William. (2000). Explaining Language Change an evolutionary approach. Longman eBooks. 702 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gelman, Susan A., et al.. (1998). Why is a pomegranate an apple? The role of shape, taxonomic relatedness, and prior lexical knowledge in children's overextensions of apple and dog. Journal of Child Language. 25(2). 267–291. 38 indexed citations
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Croft, William. (1995). Autonomy and Functionalist Linguistics. Language. 71(3). 490–532. 96 indexed citations
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Croft, William. (1991). Syntactic categories and grammatical relations : the cognitive organization of information. University of Chicago Press eBooks. 319 indexed citations
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Hobbs, Jerry R., et al.. (1987). Commonsense metaphysics and lexical semantics. Computational Linguistics. 13(3). 241–250. 23 indexed citations

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