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William Croft - Publications

Affiliations: 
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States 
Area:
Typology, semantics, cognitive linguistics
Website:
http://www.unm.edu/~wcroft/
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2021 Blythe RA, Croft W. How individuals change language. Plos One. 16: e0252582. PMID 34077472 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0252582  0.387
2018 Bhattacharya T, Retzlaff N, Blasi DE, Croft W, Cysouw M, Hruschka D, Maddieson I, Müller L, Smith E, Stadler PF, Starostin G, Youn H. Studying language evolution in the age of big data Journal of Language Evolution. 3: 94-129. DOI: 10.1093/Jole/Lzy004  0.361
2017 Ponte JM, Croft WB. A Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval Acm Sigir Forum. 51: 202-208. DOI: 10.1145/3130348.3130368  0.315
2016 Croft W. What language is the language-ready brain ready for?: Comment on "Towards a Computational Comparative Neuroprimatology: Framing the language-ready brain" by Michael A. Arbib. Physics of Life Reviews. PMID 26877189 DOI: 10.1016/J.Plrev.2016.02.005  0.428
2016 Youn H, Sutton L, Smith E, Moore C, Wilkins JF, Maddieson I, Croft W, Bhattacharya T. On the universal structure of human lexical semantics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 26831113 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1520752113  0.491
2016 Croft W. Comparative concepts and language-specific categories: Theory and practice Linguistic Typology. 20: 377-393. DOI: 10.1515/Lingty-2016-0012  0.43
2016 Baxter G, Croft W. Modeling language change across the lifespan: Individual trajectories in community change Language Variation and Change. 28: 129-173. DOI: 10.1017/S0954394516000077  0.366
2014 Croft W. Studying Language As A Complex Adaptive System The Electronic Library. 31: 1-21. DOI: 10.9793/Elsj.31.1_1  0.435
2014 Croft W. The origins of grammaticalization in the verbalization of experience Linguistics. 48: 1-48. DOI: 10.1515/Ling.2010.001  0.423
2012 Croft W. Dimensional models of event structure and verbal semantics Theoretical Linguistics. 38: 195-203. DOI: 10.1515/Tl-2012-0011  0.302
2012 Croft W, Lier EV. Language universals without universal categories Theoretical Linguistics. 38: 57-72. DOI: 10.1515/Tl-2012-0002  0.367
2012 Blythe RA, Croft W. S-curves and the mechanisms of propagation in language change Language. 88: 269-304. DOI: 10.1353/Lan.2012.0027  0.379
2011 Croft W. Social factors in the cultural evolution of language. Comment on "Modeling the cultural evolution of language" by Luc Steels. Physics of Life Reviews. 8: 359-60. PMID 22036066 DOI: 10.1016/J.Plrev.2011.10.018  0.428
2011 Croft W, Bhattacharya T, Kleinschmidt D, Smith DE, Jaeger TF. Greenbergian universals, diachrony, and statistical analyses Linguistic Typology. 15: 433-453. DOI: 10.1515/Lity.2011.029  0.312
2011 Maddieson I, Bhattacharya T, Smith DE, Croft W. Geographical distribution of phonological complexity Linguistic Typology. 15: 267-279. DOI: 10.1515/Lity.2011.020  0.367
2010 Croft W. Pragmatic functions, semantic classes, and lexical categories Linguistics. 48: 787-796. DOI: 10.1515/Ling.2010.024  0.44
2010 Croft W. Language Evolution: Contact, Competition and Change by Salikoko S. Mufwene World Englishes. 29: 306-311. DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-971X.2010.01650.X  0.441
2009 Hruschka DJ, Christiansen MH, Blythe RA, Croft W, Heggarty P, Mufwene SS, Pierrehumbert JB, Poplack S. Building social cognitive models of language change. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 13: 464-9. PMID 19815450 DOI: 10.1016/J.Tics.2009.08.008  0.465
2009 Blythe RA, Croft WA. The speech community in evolutionary language dynamics Language Learning. 59: 47-63. DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-9922.2009.00535.X  0.385
2009 Beckner C, Blythe R, Bybee J, Christiansen MH, Croft W, Ellis NC, Holland J, Ke J, Larsen-Freeman D, Schoenemann T. Language is a complex adaptive system: Position paper Language Learning. 59: 1-26. DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-9922.2009.00533.X  0.671
2009 Baxter GJ, Blythe RA, Croft W, McKane AJ. Modeling language change: An evaluation of Trudgill's theory of the emergence of New Zealand English Language Variation and Change. 21: 257-296. DOI: 10.1017/S095439450999010X  0.462
2009 Croft W. Syntax is more diverse, and evolutionary linguistics is already here Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 32: 453-454. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X09990653  0.412
2008 Croft W, Poole KT. Inferring universals from grammatical variation: Multidimensional scaling for typological analysis Theoretical Linguistics. 34: 1-37. DOI: 10.2139/Ssrn.1154073  0.462
2008 Croft W. Evolutionary linguistics Annual Review of Anthropology. 37: 219-234. DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.37.081407.085156  0.325
2008 Petkova D, Croft WB. Hierarchical language models for expert finding in enterprise corpora International Journal On Artificial Intelligence Tools. 17: 5-18. DOI: 10.1142/S0218213008003741  0.354
2008 Croft W. Evolutionary Models and Functional-Typological Theories of Language Change The Handbook of the History of English. 68-91. DOI: 10.1002/9780470757048.ch4  0.336
2007 Vihman M, Croft W. Phonological development: Toward a "radical" templatic phonology Linguistics. 45: 683-725. DOI: 10.1515/Ling.2007.021  0.445
2007 Croft W. Intonation Units and Grammatical Structure in Wardaman and in Cross-linguistic Perspective Australian Journal of Linguistics. 27: 1-39. DOI: 10.1080/07268600601172934  0.436
2006 Baxter GJ, Blythe RA, Croft W, McKane AJ. Utterance selection model of language change. Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 73: 046118. PMID 16711889 DOI: 10.1103/Physreve.73.046118  0.38
2006 Cysouw M, Croft W. Besprechungen - Explaining language change. An evolutionary approach BeiträGe Zur Geschichte Der Deutschen Sprache Und Literatur. 128: 298-305. DOI: 10.1515/Bgsl.2006.298  0.455
2006 Liu X, Croft WB. Statistical language modeling for information retrieval Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. 39: 1-31. DOI: 10.1002/Aris.1440390108  0.378
2005 Liu X, Croft WB. Statistical language modeling for information retrieval Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. 39: 3-31.  0.325
2004 Croft W. Form, meaning and speakers in the evolution of language: Commentary on Kirby, Smith and Brighton Studies in Language. 28: 608-611. DOI: 10.1075/sl.28.3.10cro  0.391
2004 Croft W. Syntactic theories and syntactic methodology: A reply to Seuren Journal of Linguistics. 40: 637-654. DOI: 10.1017/S0022226704002798  0.318
2004 Metzler D, Croft WB. Combining the language model and inference network approaches to retrieval Information Processing and Management. 40: 735-750. DOI: 10.1016/J.Ipm.2004.05.001  0.303
2004 Metzler D, Lavrenko V, Croft WB. Formal multiple-bernoulli models for language modeling Proceedings of Sheffield Sigir - Twenty-Seventh Annual International Acm Sigir Conference On Research and Development in Information Retrieval. 540-541.  0.326
2003 Croft WB. Language models for information retrieval Proceedings - International Conference On Data Engineering. 3-7. DOI: 10.1109/ICDE.2003.1260777  0.325
2003 Li X, Croft WB. Time-based language models International Conference On Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings. 469-475.  0.349
2002 Croft W. The Darwinization of Linguistics Selection. 3: 75-91. DOI: 10.1556/Select.3.2002.1.7  0.435
2002 Croft W. Correction to Greenberg Obituary Language. 78: 560-564. DOI: 10.1353/Lan.2002.0151  0.321
2002 Liu X, Croft WB. Passage retrieval based on language models International Conference On Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings. 375-382.  0.375
2001 Croft W, Taoka C, Wood EJ. Argument linking and the commercial transaction frame in English, Russian and Japanese Language Sciences. 23: 579-602. DOI: 10.1016/S0388-0001(00)00037-1  0.451
1999 Croft W, Clausner TC. Domains, image-schemas and construal. Cognitive Linguistics. 10: 1-31. DOI: 10.1515/Cogl.1999.001  0.308
1998 Xu J, Croft WB. Corpus-based stemming using cooccurrence of word variants Acm Transactions On Information Systems. 16: 61-81. DOI: 10.1145/267954.267957  0.3
1997 Croft W. On language change: The invisible hand in language Journal of Pragmatics. 27: 393-400. DOI: 10.1016/S0378-2166(97)83632-6  0.471
1996 Croft W. Linguistic Selection: An Utterance-based Evolutionary Theory of Language Change Nordic Journal of Linguistics. 19: 99-139. DOI: 10.1017/S0332586500003358  0.443
1995 Croft W. Autonomy and Functionalist Linguistics Language. 71: 490. DOI: 10.2307/416218  0.38
1994 Croft W. Semantic universals in classifier systems Word. 45: 145-171. DOI: 10.1080/00437956.1994.11435922  0.328
1993 Croft W. A Noun is a Noun is a Noun – Or is It? Some Reflections on the Universality of Semantics Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 19: 369. DOI: 10.3765/BLS.V19I1.1494  0.303
1991 Croft W. The Evolution of Negation. Journal of Linguistics. 27: 1-27. DOI: 10.1017/S0022226700012391  0.491
1990 Croft W. A Conceptual Framework for Grammatical Categories (or: A Taxonomy of Propositional Acts) Journal of Semantics. 7: 245-279. DOI: 10.1093/Jos/7.3.245  0.358
1989 Lewis DD, Croft WB, Bhandaru N. Language-oriented information retrieval Journal of Intelligent Systems. 4: 285-318. DOI: 10.1002/Int.4550040305  0.366
1986 Croft W. Suzanne Romaine, Socio-historical linguistics: Its status and methodology . (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 34.) Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. xi + 315. Language in Society. 15: 273-280. DOI: 10.1017/S0047404500000270  0.354
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