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Frederick J. Newmeyer

Frederick J. Newmeyer

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
44
Citations
8684
World Ranking
4131
National Ranking
1964

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Frederick J. Newmeyer is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their academic work spans multiple intersections within linguistics and related fields, contributing extensively to language studies and linguistic theory.

Newmeyer's research is situated primarily in the fields of Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences. Within these areas, the main subfields include Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language, Artificial Intelligence, Literature and Literary Theory, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

Their research topics cover a range of subjects related to language, including:

  • Historical Linguistics and Language Studies
  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology
  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
  • Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies

Newmeyer has published in journals frequently associated with linguistics and language history. These venues include:

  • Language
  • Language & History
  • Cadernos de Linguística
  • Frontiers in Communication
  • Historiographia Linguistica

Among the recent papers authored by Newmeyer are the following:

  • The Reception of Early Transformational Grammar in Europe (2021) published in Cadernos de Linguística
  • Complexity and Relative Complexity in Generative Grammar (2021) published in Frontiers in Communication
  • A post-Bloomfieldian's last stand: Charles Hockett's attempt to resign from the LSA in 1982 (2020) published in Language & History
  • Outside of the palace walls: Generative linguists in the 1970s and 1980s (2020) published in Language

Newmeyer has no frequent co-authors listed, indicating a focus on independent research or a broad collaboration base without recurring partners.

In recognition of their scientific contributions, Frederick J. Newmeyer was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2005.

Best Publications

  • Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey

    Frederick J. Newmeyer

  • Language form and language function

    Frederick J. Newmeyer

  • Grammar is grammar and usage is usage

    Frederick J. Newmeyer

  • Linguistic theory in America

    Frederick J. Newmeyer

  • Functional explanation in linguistics and the origins of language

    Frederick J. Newmeyer

  • Possible and probable languages: A generative perspective on linguistic typology

    Frederick J. Newmeyer

  • Grammatical Theory: Its Limits and Its Possibilities

    Frederick J. Newmeyer

  • Iconicity and Generative Grammar.

    Frederick J. Newmeyer

  • Measuring Grammatical Complexity

    Frederick J. Newmeyer;Laurel B. Preston

  • Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics

    Frederick J. Newmeyer;John Lyons

  • Linguistic Theory in America: Second Edition

    Frederick Newmeyer

  • Possible and probable languages

    Frederick J. Newmeyer

  • Against a parameter-setting approach to typological variation

    Frederick J. Newmeyer

  • The politics of linguistics

    Frederick J. Newmeyer

  • Combinatorial Variability

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  • Linguistic theory in America : the first quarter-century of transformational generative grammar

    Frederick J. Newmeyer

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

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  • Grammatical Theory: Its Limits and Possibilities

    James D. McCawley;Frederick J. Newmeyer

  • OPTIMALITY AND FUNCTIONALITY: A CRITIQUE OF FUNCTIONALLY-BASED OPTIMALITY-THEORETIC SYNTAX

    Frederick J. Newmeyer

  • Generative Linguistics: An Historical Perspective

    Frederick J. Newmeyer

  • Language : psychological and biological aspects

    Frederick J. Newmeyer

  • The Linguistic Wars

    Frederick J. Newmeyer

  • The regularity of idiom behavior

    Frederick J. Newmeyer;Frederick J. Newmeyer

  • A Reply to the Critiques of 'Grammar is Grammar and Usage is Usage'

    Frederick J. Newmeyer

  • Explaining language universals

    Frederick J. Newmeyer

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria Polinsky
Maria Polinsky University of Maryland, College Park
Martin Haspelmath
Martin Haspelmath Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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