William E. Welmers

2.0k total citations
16 papers, 733 citations indexed

About

William E. Welmers is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, William E. Welmers has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 733 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Language and Linguistics, 8 papers in Linguistics and Language and 2 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in William E. Welmers's work include Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (6 papers), Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis (5 papers) and Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 papers). William E. Welmers is often cited by papers focused on Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (6 papers), Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis (5 papers) and Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 papers). William E. Welmers collaborates with scholars based in United States. William E. Welmers's co-authors include James E. Redden, Joseph Greenberg, Lyndon Harries and Warren L. D'Azevedo and has published in prestigious journals such as Language, Modern Language Journal and Language Sciences.

In The Last Decade

William E. Welmers

11 papers receiving 529 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William E. Welmers United States 8 434 402 171 112 101 16 733
James Sledd United States 13 453 1.0× 287 0.7× 191 1.1× 110 1.0× 90 0.9× 62 757
Raven I. McDavid United States 13 395 0.9× 408 1.0× 200 1.2× 56 0.5× 60 0.6× 70 673
Richard W. Bailey United States 14 382 0.9× 344 0.9× 86 0.5× 120 1.1× 70 0.7× 66 647
Graham Thurgood United States 11 400 0.9× 267 0.7× 156 0.9× 194 1.7× 86 0.9× 36 671
Garland Cannon United States 14 366 0.8× 118 0.3× 64 0.4× 82 0.7× 84 0.8× 90 672
Herbert Penzl United States 9 404 0.9× 139 0.3× 116 0.7× 64 0.6× 66 0.7× 90 600
Yamuna Kachru United States 16 592 1.4× 465 1.2× 103 0.6× 317 2.8× 68 0.7× 50 851
Eugenio Coseriu Germany 16 536 1.2× 139 0.3× 126 0.7× 60 0.5× 115 1.1× 112 725
Angus McIntosh United Kingdom 10 489 1.1× 249 0.6× 105 0.6× 265 2.4× 79 0.8× 20 754
Charles Barber United Kingdom 10 240 0.6× 165 0.4× 70 0.4× 107 1.0× 33 0.3× 29 491

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William E. Welmers

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All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Welmers, William E.. (2016). African Languages and Christian Missions / LES MISSIONS ET LES LANGUES AFRICAINES.
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Welmers, William E.. (2010). The derivation of Igbo verb bases. Studies in African Linguistics. 1(1).
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Welmers, William E.. (1977). Spoken Hausa By J Ronayne Cowan and Russell G. Schuh (review). Language. 53(2). 452–453. 4 indexed citations
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Harries, Lyndon & William E. Welmers. (1977). African Language Structures. ASA Review of Books. 3. 8–8. 65 indexed citations
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Redden, James E. & William E. Welmers. (1975). African Language Structures. Modern Language Journal. 59(5/6). 311–311. 280 indexed citations
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Welmers, William E.. (1970). Language Change and Language Relationsips in Africa.. Language Sciences. 1 indexed citations
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D'Azevedo, Warren L. & William E. Welmers. (1969). Language Map of Central Liberia. 1(2). 41–44. 1 indexed citations
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Welmers, William E., et al.. (1969). Noun Modifiers in Igbo. International Journal of American Linguistics. 35(4). 315–322. 6 indexed citations
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Welmers, William E., et al.. (1968). Igbo : a learner's dictionary. Americanae (AECID Library). 12 indexed citations
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Welmers, William E.. (1963). Associative a and ka in Niger-Congo. Language. 39(3). 432–432. 8 indexed citations
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Welmers, William E. & Joseph Greenberg. (1956). Studies in African Linguistic Classification. Language. 32(3). 556–556. 102 indexed citations
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Welmers, William E.. (1954). The Use of Vernacular Languages in Education. Language. 30(1). 190–190. 161 indexed citations
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Welmers, William E.. (1953). Spoken English as a foreign language : instructor's manual.
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Welmers, William E.. (1953). African languages and christian missions. Civilisations. 3. 545–564.
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Welmers, William E.. (1952). Notes on the Structure of Bariba. Language. 28(1). 82–82. 10 indexed citations

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