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Frederick J. Newmeyer

64 works· latest 2021· 2 institutionscluster: provisionalORCID 0000-0001-8497-1848

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Most cited in this library

Language Form and Language Function1998 · 1,099 citations
The syntax and semantics of complex nominals . By Judith N. Levi. New York: Academic Press, 1978.1979 · 835 citations
Grammar is grammar and usage is usage2003 · 614 citations
Linguistic Theory in America1986 · 396 citations
Possible and Probable Languages2005 · 374 citations

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Chomsky and Usage‐Based Linguistics

·2021·1 author·other

21citations

The Reception of Early Transformational Grammar in Europe

Cadernos de Linguística·2021·1 author·Open access

39citations

On looking into words (and beyond)

·2017·33 authors

100citations

Form and Function in the Evolution of Grammar

Cognitive Science·2016·1 author·Open access

28citations

Nonsyntactic Explanations of Island Constraints

Annual Review of Linguistics·2015·1 author·review·Open access

27citations

Where do motivations compete?

·2014·1 author·chapter

64citations

Getting the word out: The early generativists’ multipronged efforts to diffuse their ideas

Language·2014·1 author

25citations

‘All Languages Are Equally Complex’

Historiographia Linguistica·2012·2 authors

55citations

Language evolution and syntactic theory. By Anna R. Kinsella. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 222. ISBN 9780521895309. $99 (Hb).

Language·2010·1 author·other

48citations

On comparative concepts and descriptive categories: A reply to Haspelmath

Language·2010·1 author

63citations

THE IRRELEVANCE OF TYPOLOGY FOR GRAMMATICAL THEORY

Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva (Universidad de Huelva)·2010·1 author·Open access

53citations

Formalism and functionalism in linguistics

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science·2010·1 author

60citations

On Split CPs and the ‘Perfectness’ of Language

·2009·1 author

31citations

On Subject-Auxiliary Inversion and the notion “purely formal generalization”

Cognitive Linguistics·2009·2 authors

73citations

4. Current challenges to the Lexicalist Hypothesis: An overview and a critique

Linguistik aktuell·2008·1 author·chapter

115citations

Universals in syntax

The Linguistic Review·2008·1 author

26citations

Linguistic typology requires crosslinguistic formal categories

Linguistic Typology·2007·1 author

67citations

On Gahl and Garnsey on grammar and usage

Language·2006·1 author

44citations

WHAT CAN GRAMMATICALIZATION TELL US ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF LANGUAGE?

The Evolution of Language·2006·1 author·other

76citations

Possible and Probable Languages

Oxford University Press eBooks·2005·1 author·book

374citations

Review of Butler (2003): Structure and function: A guide to three major structural-functional theories. Part 1. Approaches to the simplex clause & Part 2. From clause to discourse and beyond.

Functions of Language·2005·1 author

49citations

A reply to the critiques of ‘Grammar is grammar and usage is usage’

Language·2005·1 author

105citations

Against a parameter-setting approach to typological variation

Linguistic Variation Yearbook·2004·1 author

169citations

The discrete nature of syntactic categories: Against a prototype-based account

Syntax and semantics·2004·1 author·chapter

23citations

Typological evidence and Universal Grammar

Studies in Language·2004·1 author

23citations

Cognitive and functional factors in the evolution of grammar

European Review·2004·1 author

9citations

On split-CPs, uninterpretable features, and the 'perfectness' of language

ZAS Papers in Linguistics·2004·1 author·Open access

35citations

Grammar is grammar and usage is usage

Language·2003·1 author·Open access

614citations

What Can the Field of Linguistics Tell Us About the Origins of Language?

Oxford University Press eBooks·2003·1 author·chapter

53citations

Formal and functional motivation for language change

Cambridge University Press eBooks·2003·1 author·chapter

68citations

Generative Linguistics

Routledge eBooks·2002·1 author·book

47citations

Uniformitarian Assumptions and Language Evolution Research

·2002·1 author·chapter

41citations

Optimality And Functionality: A Critique of Functionally-Based Optimality-Theoretic Syntax

Natural Language & Linguistic Theory·2002·1 author

70citations

The Prague School and North American functionalist approaches to syntax

Journal of Linguistics·2001·1 author

41citations

On the Reconstruction of ‘Proto-World’ Word Order

Cambridge University Press eBooks·2000·1 author·chapter

91citations

Three book-length studies of language evolution

Journal of Linguistics·2000·1 author·other

8citations

Deconstructing grammaticalization

Language Sciences·2000·1 author

171citations

The Discrete Nature Of Syntactic Categories: Against A Prototype-Based Account

BRILL eBooks·1999·1 author·chapter

76citations

Language Form and Language Function

The MIT Press eBooks·1998·1 author·book

1,099citations

Generative Linguistics: An Historical Perspective

·1995·1 author·other

52citations

A note on Chomsky on form and function

Journal of Linguistics·1994·1 author

29citations

Competing motivations and synchronic analysis

Language Typology and Universals·1994·1 author

48citations

Iconicity and Generative Grammar

Language·1992·1 author

260citations

El lenguaje : contexto socio-cultural

·1992·2 authors·book

2citations

Functional explanation in linguistics and the origins of language

Language & Communication·1991·1 author

240citations

O, what a tangoed web they weave …

Language & Communication·1991·1 author

41citations

Explaining language universals

Journal of Linguistics·1990·1 author

356citations

The linguistic status of creole languages: two perspectives

Cambridge University Press eBooks·1988·1 author·chapter

28citations

Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey Volume IV Language: The Socio-cultural Context

·1988·1 author

40citations

A Festschrift for Sol Saporta

·1986·3 authors·book

79citations

Has There Been a ‘Chomskyan Revolution’ in Linguistics?

Language·1986·1 author

76citations

Linguistic Theory in America

BRILL eBooks·1986·1 author·book

396citations

The Linguistic Wars

Elsevier eBooks·1986·1 author·chapter

39citations

Exceptional language and linguistics . Edited by Loraine K. Obler and Lise Menn. New York: Academic Press, 1982. Pp. xxviii, 372.

Language·1984·1 author·other

117citations

Language understanding : Towards a post-Chomskyan linguistics. By Terence Moore and Christine Carling. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. Pp. x, 225. $22.50.

Language·1984·1 author·other

26citations

Grammatical Theory. Its Limits and Its Possibilities

Modern Language Journal·1984·2 authors·other

257citations

The grammar of nominal compounding , with special reference to Danish, English and French. By Laurie Bauer. (Odense University studies in linguistics, 4.) Odense, Denmark: University Press, 1978. Pp. 251. Kr. 60.00.

Language·1980·1 author·other

99citations

The syntax and semantics of complex nominals . By Judith N. Levi. New York: Academic Press, 1978.

Language·1979·1 author

835citations

Linguistics and economics . By Ferruccio Rossi-Landi. (Janua linguarum, series maior, 81.) The Hague: Mouton, 1975. Pp. 240. f 24.00.

Language·1977·1 author

62citations

English Aspectual Verbs

De Gruyter eBooks·1975·1 author·book

77citations