2026 Ian Roberts: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	51	2535	2312	436	393	160	13851

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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13851

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2535

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436

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

1598
Citations
Passive arguments raised

Mark Baker;Kyle Johnson;Ian Roberts

1418
Citations
Syntactic Change: Index of names

Ian Roberts;Anna Roussou

545
Citations
A Syntactic Universal and Its Consequences

Theresa Biberauer;Anders Holmberg;Ian Roberts

407
Citations
Verbs and diachronic syntax

Ian Roberts

399
Citations
Agreement parameters and the development of English modal auxiliaries

Ian G. Roberts

359
Citations
Agreement and Head Movement: Clitics, Incorporation, and Defective Goals

Ian G. Roberts

351
Citations
Verbs and Diachronic Syntax: A Comparative History of English and French

Ian G. Roberts

343
Citations
Complex Inversion in French

Luigi Rizzi;Ian Roberts

332
Citations
CLAUSE STRUCTURE AND X-SECOND*

Anna Cardinaletti;Ian Roberts

329
Citations
Nitric Oxide Regulates Cell Proliferation during Drosophila Development

Boris Kuzin;Ian Roberts;Natalia Peunova;Grigori Enikolopov

322
Citations
A computational model of language learnability and language chance

Ian Roberts

318
Citations
A formal approach to “grammaticalization”

Ian Roberts;Anna Roussou

273
Citations
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

260
Citations
A minimalist theory of A-movement and control

Unknown

255
Citations
Agreement and Head Movement

Ian Roberts

236
Citations
Parameter Hierarchies and Universal Grammar

Ian G. Roberts

222
Citations
Past participle agreement in Abruzzese: split auxiliary selection and the null-subject parameter

Roberta D’Alessandro;Ian Roberts

194
Citations
Excorporation and minimality

Ian Roberts

192
Citations
Clause structure and language change

Adrian Battye;Ian G. Roberts

192
Citations
The Cambridge handbook of historical syntax

Adam Ledgeway;Ian G. Roberts

185
Citations
Parametric variation : null subjects in minimalist theory

Theresa Biberauer;Anders Holmberg;Ian Roberts;Michelle Sheehan

178
Citations
Restructuring, head movement, and locality

Ian Roberts

170
Citations
Have/Be Raising, Move F, and Procrastinate

Ian Roberts

149
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Luigi Rizzi University of Siena

Anthony R. Green University of Cambridge

Grigori Enikolopov Stony Brook University

Mark A. Baker University of Newcastle Australia

Andrew E. Teschendorff University College London

John Doorbar University of Cambridge

Johannes Wienberg University of Cambridge

Darren K. Griffin University of Kent

Michael I. Lerman National Institutes of Health

david i smith Mayo Clinic

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