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D-Index
51
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13851
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2535
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437

Ian Roberts publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ian Roberts sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 160 publications — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Ian Roberts D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ian Roberts sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 51 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ian Roberts is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Arts and Humanities, with notable work in Language and Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction, and Philosophy.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
  • AI in Service Interactions
  • Digital Communication and Language
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Historical Linguistics and Language Studies
  • Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques

Ian Roberts has contributed research papers published between 2023 and 2024 in various academic venues. Key recent publications include:

  • Form Copy, Agree and Clitics (2024), published in Probus
  • Les fausses promesses de ChatGPT (2023), published in Philosophie Magazine - Hors séries
  • An Interactional Account of Empathy in Human-Machine Communication (2023), published in Human-Machine Communication
  • The duality of syntax: Unstable structures, labelling and linearisation (2023), published in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory
  • Rebuttal to "Merge is not 'lerge'" (2023), published in Biolinguistics

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers such as Jeffrey Watumull, Noam Chomsky, Shauna Concannon, Marcus Tomalin, and Andrea Moro.

Ian Roberts has also authored a forthcoming book titled Continuing Syntax, scheduled for publication by Cambridge University Press in 2025.

Publication venues where Ian Roberts has appeared multiple times include Probus, Philosophie Magazine - Hors séries, Human-Machine Communication, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, and Biolinguistics.

Best Publications

  • Syntactic Change: A Minimalist Approach to Grammaticalization

    Ian G. Roberts;Anna Roussou

  • Passive arguments raised

    Mark Baker;Kyle Johnson;Ian Roberts

  • Syntactic Change: Index of names

    Ian Roberts;Anna Roussou

  • A Syntactic Universal and Its Consequences

    Theresa Biberauer;Anders Holmberg;Ian Roberts

  • Verbs and diachronic syntax

    Ian Roberts

  • Agreement parameters and the development of English modal auxiliaries

    Ian G. Roberts

  • Agreement and Head Movement: Clitics, Incorporation, and Defective Goals

    Ian G. Roberts

  • Verbs and Diachronic Syntax: A Comparative History of English and French

    Ian G. Roberts

  • Complex Inversion in French

    Luigi Rizzi;Ian Roberts

  • CLAUSE STRUCTURE AND X-SECOND*

    Anna Cardinaletti;Ian Roberts

  • Nitric Oxide Regulates Cell Proliferation during Drosophila Development

    Boris Kuzin;Ian Roberts;Natalia Peunova;Grigori Enikolopov

  • A computational model of language learnability and language chance

    Ian Roberts

  • A formal approach to “grammaticalization”

    Ian Roberts;Anna Roussou

  • Acquisition of high-level chromosomal instability is associated with integration of human papillomavirus type 16 in cervical keratinocytes.

    Mark R. Pett;William O. F. Alazawi;Ian Roberts;Sally Dowen

  • A minimalist theory of A-movement and control

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  • Agreement and Head Movement

    Ian Roberts

  • Parameter Hierarchies and Universal Grammar

    Ian G. Roberts

  • Past participle agreement in Abruzzese: split auxiliary selection and the null-subject parameter

    Roberta D’Alessandro;Ian Roberts

  • Excorporation and minimality

    Ian Roberts

  • Clause structure and language change

    Adrian Battye;Ian G. Roberts

  • The Cambridge handbook of historical syntax

    Adam Ledgeway;Ian G. Roberts

  • Parametric variation : null subjects in minimalist theory

    Theresa Biberauer;Anders Holmberg;Ian Roberts;Michelle Sheehan

  • Restructuring, head movement, and locality

    Ian Roberts

  • Have/Be Raising, Move F, and Procrastinate

    Ian Roberts

Frequent Co-Authors

Anders Holmberg
Anders Holmberg Newcastle University
Nicholas Coleman
Nicholas Coleman University of Cambridge
Margaret Stanley
Margaret Stanley University of Cambridge
Luigi Rizzi
Luigi Rizzi University of Siena
Anthony R. Green
Anthony R. Green University of Cambridge
Grigori Enikolopov
Grigori Enikolopov Stony Brook University
Johannes Wienberg
Johannes Wienberg University of Cambridge
Darren K. Griffin
Darren K. Griffin University of Kent
Michael I. Lerman
Michael I. Lerman National Institutes of Health
david i smith
david i smith Mayo Clinic

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