Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Level 4· openalex· T10034· 4,779 works indexed upstreamcanonical tree

This cluster of papers encompasses a wide range of topics in theoretical linguistics, including syntax, semantics, pragmatics, language evolution, universal grammar, construction grammar, scalar implicature, morphology, and language typology. The papers explore fundamental principles and structures underlying human language and aim to advance our understanding of linguistic universals and diversity.

Works in this branch

by citations
How To Do Things With Words
Routledge eBooks·1975·1 author·chapter·Open access
21,513citations
ASPECTS OF THE THEORY OF SYNTAX
·1964·1 author·report
13,579citations
Speech Acts
Cambridge University Press eBooks·1969·1 author·book
11,742citations
An Introduction to Functional Grammar
Routledge eBooks·2014·2 authors·book
9,658citations
Lectures on Government and Binding
Mouton eBooks·1993·1 author·book·Open access
8,541citations
The Minimalist Program
The MIT Press eBooks·2014·1 author·book
8,245citations
Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English
TESOL Quarterly·2000·6 authors
8,193citations
Syntactic Structures
De Gruyter eBooks·1957·1 author·book
7,857citations
Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library)·1969·1 author
7,309citations
6,707citations
The Fine Structure of the Left Periphery
Kluwer international handbooks of linguistics·1997·1 author·chapter
5,881citations
On The Language Instinct
PsycEXTRA Dataset·1994·1 author·dataset
5,878citations
Foundations of Cognitive Grammar
Modern Language Journal·1988·2 authors·other
5,665citations
Derivation by Phase
The MIT Press eBooks·2001·1 author·chapter
5,611citations
A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language
College Composition and Communication·1987·4 authors
5,488citations
Pragmatics
Cambridge University Press eBooks·1983·1 author·book
5,133citations
Distributional Structure
WORD·1954·1 author
4,806citations
Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use.
The Philosophical Review·1988·2 authors
4,648citations
4,615citations
4,497citations
Thematic Proto-Roles and Argument Selection
Language·1991·1 author·Open access
4,494citations
Clausulas comparativas do portugues
LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas)·1975·thesis·Open access
4,276citations
4,216citations
The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language
Cambridge University Press eBooks·2002·2 authors·book
4,135citations
Constraints on variables in syntax
DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)·1967·1 author·thesis·Open access
4,094citations
The Generative Lexicon
The MIT Press eBooks·1995·1 author·book
3,967citations