Journal of Linguistics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Linguistics is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Maria Polinsky(ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus (Oxford Handbooks). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xxx + 1158.17
Diego Gabriel Krivochen, Syntax on the edge: A graph-theoretic analysis of sentence structure. Leiden & Boston, MA: Brill, 2023. Pp. xxi + 518.10
LIN volume 58 issue 1 Cover and Front matter10
Onset conspiracy in Upper Sorbian10
Aggressively non-D-linked construction and ellipsis: A Direct Interpretation approach8
A syntactically-driven approach to indefiniteness, specificity and anti-specificity in Romance7
LIN volume 59 issue 4 Cover and Back matter7
Noun class agreement in Kafire (Senufo): A Lexical-Functional Grammar account5
The distribution of focus and the mapping between syntax and information structure5
Guglielmo Cinque, On linearization: Toward a restrictive theory (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. Pp. vii + 182.5
Pronouns beyond phi-features: the speaker–addressee relation in Japanese pronouns and its implications for formal pronouns5
Gita Martohardjono & Suzanne Flynn (eds.), Language in development: A crosslinguistic perspective. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2021. Pp. xi + 346.4
Robert Stalnaker, Propositions: Ontology and logic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Hb. Pp. xvi + 1964
Pullum’s philosophy of linguistics: towards a unified framework4
Deborah Arbes (ed.), Number categories: Dynamics, contact, typology (Studia Typologica 32). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2023. Pp. vii + 183.4
LIN volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Back matter4
Editorial Note4
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The role of word recognition factors and lexical stress in the distribution of consonants in Spanish, English and Dutch3
Token frequency as a determinant of morphological change3
LIN volume 61 issue 2 Cover and Front matter3
David R. Olson ,Making sense: What it means to understand. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xii +196.3
A new approach to Negative Concord: Catalan as a case in point3
Telicization in Mandarin Chinese3
Virginia Hill & Alexandru Mardale, The diachrony of differential object marking in Romanian (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 45). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp.3
A multilingual corpus study of the competition betweenpastandperfectin narrative discourse2
Intonation correlates of canonical and non-canonical wh-in-situ questions in Spanish2
Object control verbs and syntactic causatives: Inflected infinitives as a cue to syntactic structure2
LIN volume 60 issue 1 Cover and Back matter2
Headedness and/or grammatical anarchy? (Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and Syntax 11) – ADDENDUM2
Case-matching effects under clausal ellipsis and the cue-based theory of sentence processing2
The dual face of structural object case: on Lithuanian genitive of negation2
Chinese copy raising and its implications for predication2
Existential indefinite constructions, in the world and in Mainland Southeast Asia2
The syntax of inner aspect in Hungarian2
Separability of dependents from VP in English: Beyond the argument/adjunct distinction2
LIN volume 60 issue 4 Cover and Front matter2
Steven Mithen, The language puzzle: Piecing together the six-million-year story of how words evolved. New York: Basic Books, 2024. Pp. viii + 534.2
William Croft, Morphosyntax: Constructions of the world’s languages (Textbook in Linguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xxxvi + 688.2
Attack of the snowclones: A corpus-based analysis of extravagant formulaic patterns2
The syntax of peripheral adverbial clauses2
Condition C in German A′-movement: Tackling challenges in experimental research on reconstruction1
On the rescuing of some-indefinites1
LIN volume 60 issue 3 Cover and Front matter1
The argument structure of have and other transitive verbs1
System size and system complexity: A case study in Pamean nouns and verbs1
The syntactic constraint on English auxiliary contraction – CORRIGENDUM1
Viewpointed morphology: A unified account of Spanish verb-complement compounds as fictive interaction structures1
LIN volume 57 issue 4 Cover and Back matter1
Iconicity of grammatical tonal polarity and reduplication in Nigerian Pidgin1
Gender asymmetries in ellipsis: An experimental comparison of markedness and frequency accounts in English1
Jordan Fenlon and Julie A. Hochgesang (eds.), Signed Language Corpora. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2022. Pp. xvii+2561
Alessandro Capone, Pragmatics and philosophy: Connections and ramifications (Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology 22). Cham: Springer, 2019. Pp. iv + 311.1
Romance pronominal clitics as pure heads1
Revising and extending Gricean maxims: The TRICS-Principles1
Editorial Note1
Theme-vowel minimal pairs show argument structure alternations1
Case and agreement as contextually manipulable properties of functional heads1
Formalising phonological perception: The role of voicing assimilation in consonant cluster perception in Emilian dialects1
Björn Wiemer & Juana I. Marín-Arrese (eds.), Evidential marking in European languages: Toward a unitary comparative account. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. xvii + 732.1
LIN volume 59 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
Spanning complement-taking verbs and spanning complementizers: On the realization of presuppositional clauses1
Comprehending non-canonical and indirect speech acts in German0
Gender marking in the first-person singular: A case of paradigm (in)consistency – ERRATUM0
When information structure exploits syntax: The relation between the loss of VO and scrambling in Dutch0
Fuzhen Si & Luigi Rizzi (eds.), Current issues in syntactic cartography: A crosslinguistic perspective. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021. Pp. vi + 327.0
Accounting for non-constituents in hybrid quotations: Why unquotation is not the answer0
On the licensing of complementizer agreement with nominals in the left periphery0
LIN volume 59 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Hanging Topic Left Dislocations in seemingly embedded contexts: An English–Spanish asymmetry0
Borja Herce, The typological diversity of morphomes: A cross-linguistic study of unnatural morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. x + 303.0
LIN volume 61 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Stress in French loanwords in British and American English0
The interaction of discourse markers and prosody in rhetorical questions in German0
Fluctuations in allomorphy domains: Applying Stump 2010 to Armenian ordinal numerals0
LIN volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
On the status of NCIs: An experimental investigation on so-called Strict NC languages0
LIN volume 60 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Jianhua Hu, Prominence and locality in grammar: The syntax and semantics of wh-questions and reflexives (Routledge Studies in Chinese Linguistics). London & New York: Routledge, 2019. Pp. xv + 1910
Palatalisation can be quantity-sensitive: Dorsal Fricative Assimilation in Liverpool English0
LIN volume 58 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
LIN volume 58 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Distributive numerals in Albanian0
Modal raising and focus marking in Chinese0
LIN volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Towards a unitary and differentiated analytical approach to the evolution of mood from Latin to Romance0
Locative Inversion, PP Topicalization, and Weak Crossover in English0
Clause type vs. speech act: Knowledge confirmation questions in Basque0
L’é ciaro che se dise cusì. On Change in the System of Expletive Subject Clitics in Opitergino0
Intransparent-Gap Relatives in Japanese0
LIN volume 60 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Oblique complements in Estonian: A corpus perspective0
The three degrees of metrical strength in Strict CV metrics, a theory without parsing0
Internally caused change as change by inner predisposition: Comparative evidence from Romance0
Ahmad Alqassas, A unified theory of polarity sensitivity: Comparative syntax of Arabic (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. x + 246.0
Modelling non-specific linguistic variation in cognitive disorders0
Active participles are (deverbal) adjectives0
EDITORIAL NOTE0
Ulrike Freywald, Horst J. Simon and Stefan Müller (eds.), Headedness and/or grammatical anarchy? (Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and Syntax 11). Berlin: Language Science Press, 2022. Pp. 0
Processing dissociations between raising and control in Brazilian Portuguese0
Ivano Caponigro, Harold Torrence & Roberto Zavala Maldonado (eds.), Headless relative clauses in Mesoamerican languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 584.0
Acoustic disambiguation of homophonous morphs is exceptional0
The relation between head movement and periphrasis0
Andreas Kehl, Adjunct islands in English: Theoretical perspectives and experimental evidence (Studies in Generative Grammar 152). Berlin & Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xv + 330.0
Shift is derived0
Simone Guesser, Ani Carla Marchesan and Paulo Medeiros Junior (eds.), Wh-exclamatives, imperatives and wh-questions: Issues on Brazilian Portuguese. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. 463.0
The prosody of surprise questions in Estonian0
The linguistic factors of semantic transparency: Evidence from verb-to-noun derivation in French0
Raising and matching in Pharasiot Greek relative clauses: A diachronic reconstruction0
LIN volume 61 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
The intricate inflectional relationships underpinning morphological analogy0
Clitic left dislocation and inverse scope: Plain indefinites versus numerals0
Lexical be0
Shift in Harmonic Serialism0
Characterizing English Preposing in PP constructions0
Why do we need another book about unbounded dependencies? A review article on Chaves & Putnam’sUnbounded Dependency Constructions0
The semantics of conversion nouns and -ing nominalizations: A quantitative and theoretical perspective0
Non-agreeing degree constructions0
Voice mismatch and contrast in French Right-Node Raising0
LIN volume 58 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Vera Lee-Schoenfeld & Dennis Ott (eds.), Parameters of predicate fronting (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. vii + 225.0
Sociophonetics, semantics, and intention0
Gender marking in the first-person singular: A case of paradigm (in)consistency0
The antipassive and verbal projections0
Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Emma Moore, Linda Van Bergen & Willem B. Hollmann (eds.), Categories, constructions, and change in English syntax (Studies in English Language 63). Cambridge: Camb0
Processing and production of clitics in Udi and European Portuguese: Testing a processing account of an extension of the suffixing preference0
A pragmatics-cognitive approach to the opposition relations lexicalized in Chinese0
Parsability revisited and reassessed0
Factivity and complementizer omission in English embedded gapping0
LIN volume 60 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Filler–gap dependencies and the remnant–correlate dependency in backward sprouting: Sensitivity to distance and islands0
FOFC and what left–right asymmetries may tell us about syntactic structure building0
LIN volume 58 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Remnant connectivity in pseudogapping: Experimental evidence for a direct generation approach0
Clause types, intonation and stranded embedded clauses0
Recomplementation as a paratactic phenomenon: Evidence from Spanish and English0
Why more and less are never adverbs0
Affixal rivalry and its purely semantic resolution among English derived adjectives0
How do ‘rumours’ and reportative evidentiality match? A comparative study of the French conditional, Dutch zou + inf, and German sollen + inf0
Feature reassembly and meso-parameters versus interpretability: From inconsistent null subjects in L1 Hebrew to no null subjects in L2 English0
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Shigeru Miyagawa, Syntax in the treetops (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs). Cambridge, MA & London: MIT Press, 2022. Pp. xviii + 234.0
Bundling telicity, verbal quantification, and perfective aspect: A study on in Yixing Chinese0
Daniel Altshuler & Robert Truswell, Coordination and the syntax-discourse interface (Oxford Surveys in Syntax and Morphology 11). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xii + 315.0
Attributional versus identificational: A dichotomous analysis of appositives in Mandarin Chinese0
Metrical strength in Persian poetic metres0
To move or not to move: Is focus on the edge?0
LIN volume 61 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Raised and in-situ preverbal foci: A unified prosodic account0
Raymond Hickey, Life and language beyond Earth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. iii + 694.0
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R.M.W. Dixon & Nerida Jarkey (eds.), The integration of language and society: A cross-linguistic typology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 000 + 408.0
LIN volume 60 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
The interpretational preferences of null and overt pronouns in Chinese0
Processing and production of affixes in Georgian and English: Testing a processing account of the suffixing preference0
LIN volume 61 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Directional serial verb constructions in Mandarin: A neo-constructionist approach0
The syntactic flexibility of German and English idioms: Evidence from acceptability rating experiments0
Affective coronal alternations in Mapudungun: Sound symbolism, change, and morpho-phonological structure0
The blurring history of intervocalic devoicing0
Enam Al-Wer, Uri Horesh, Bruno Herin and Rudolf De Jong, Arabic sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xvi + 238.0
Natalia Knoblock (ed.), The grammar of hate: Morphosyntactic features of hateful, aggressive, and dehumanizing discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xvi + 293.0
Mutation, allomorphy and Galician clitics0
Gréte Dalmi, Jacek Witkoś & Piotr Cegłowski (eds.), Strict negative concord in Slavic and Finno-Ugric: Licensing, structure and interpretation. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2024.0
Irrealis as modality: evidence from Gιsιɖa Anii0
Editorial Note0
LIN volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
On the Irish agreement pattern and its parallels: Asymmetric chains and defective goals0
A gradualist view of word meaning in language acquisition and language use0
Delayed exponence in Murrinhpatha: Stratal OT, not position classes0
The syntactic constraint on English auxiliary contraction0
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True wh-movement and wh-in-situ in one language: Evidence from Colloquial Singapore English0
Daniël Van Olmen & Jolanta Šinkūnienė (eds.), Pragmatic markers and peripheries (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021. Pp. 452.0
Cedric Boeckx, Reflections on language evolution: From minimalism to pluralism (Conceptual Foundations of Language Science 6). Berlin: Language Science Press, 2021. Pp. 76.0
Bidirectional grammaticalization: Chinese modal and conditional0
All TRs are not created equal: L1 and L2 perception of English cluster affrication0
Frederick J. Newmeyer, American linguistics in transition: From post-Bloomfieldian structuralism to generative grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xvi + 412.0
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Non-canonical questions at the syntax–prosody interface0
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Yusuke Kubota & Robert D. Levine, Type-Logical Syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020. Pp. xxii + 397.0
LIN volume 60 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Model-theoretic syntax for the working syntactician0
Opaque morphology and phonology: Historical prefixes in English0
Introduction to the special issue Experimental and Corpus-based Approaches to Ellipsis0
LIN volume 57 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Explaining microvariation using the Tolerance Principle: plugging the amn’t gap0
Margaret Thomas, Formalism and functionalism in linguistics: The engineer and the collector. New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. viii + 118.0
Licensing null arguments in recipes across languages0
John Russell Rickford, Variation, versatility and change in sociolinguistics and creole studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xxii + 366.0
Dissimilation and phonological conspiracy in Tenyidie tone0
Information structural effects in processing contrastive ellipsis: Eye-tracking evidence from a flexible word order language0
Object drop in Spanish is not island-sensitive0
Semantic taxonomy, direct compositionality, and unlike nominal coordinations in Korean0
Bernd Heine, Gunther Kaltenböck, Tania Kuteva & Haiping Long, The rise of discourse markers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xi + 308.0
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