Theoretical Linguistics

Papers
(The median citation count of Theoretical Linguistics is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Reflections on counterfactuals7
Dismantling the universal prosodic hierarchy with possible evidence for the absence of syllables4
Islands, expressiveness, and the theory/formalism confusion3
Joanna Błaszczak (27 June 1971 – 8 July 2021)3
Analysis and falsifiability in practice2
Cross-linguistic insights in the theory of semantics and its interface with syntax2
Building trees, building bridges: compositionality in inquisitive semantics and syntactic cartography2
General linguistics must be based on universals (or non-conventional aspects of language)2
Frontmatter2
Less is more: reexamining assumptions through the narrow focus of subregularity2
The grammar of self-talk. What different modes of talking reveal about language2
Justifying tense and mood morphology in counterfactuals2
On doing theoretical linguistics1
It’s time for a complete theory of partial predictability in language1
General linguistics and the nature of human language1
On subregular linguistics, SRL1
Diving deeper into subregular syntax1
Frontmatter1
Which answer resolves which reading of which question?1
How to tear down the walls that separate linguists: continuing the quest for clarity about general linguistics1
Reflections on the grammatical view of scalar implicatures1
Intuition, intonation, inconsistency, and innateness1
Frontmatter1
Causes and effects of misreported syllable structures1
Speech and sign: the whole human language0
Large language models are better than theoretical linguists at theoretical linguistics0
Early German = Slavic?0
Gradient at-issueness, minimum relevance, and propositional prominence0
The empirical turn and its consequences for theoretical syntax0
Beware of the emperor’s conceptual clothes: general linguistics must not be based on shaky dichotomies0
Beyond universals and particulars in language0
Theoretical Linguistics and the philosophy of linguistics0
Taking a psychological view on another way to look at counterfactuals0
Speaker judgments alone cannot diagnose syllable structure0
Experimental linguistics: bridging subregular linguistics and cognitive neuroscience0
Fine-grained yet flat: on the usefulness of dynamic representations for questions0
On the innate building blocks of language and scientific explanation0
Wh-questions in dynamic inquisitive semantics0
Frontmatter0
Not everything is a theory0
A wishlist for future dynamic frameworks0
The reality of Rukai Glides0
Another analysis of counterfactuality: replies0
Exploring T3 languages with quantitative computational syntax0
Elicitation tasks, language contact, and syllable structure in Budai Rukai0
Frontmatter0
Three worlds of variables to control in linguistics0
Editorial0
On the goals of theoretical linguistics0
Obligatory subjects and the SVO/SOV debate0
Issues in systematizing the elicitation and analysis of syllable structure0
No conditionalization without restriction0
Frontmatter0
(Non)conventional aspects of language and their relation to general linguistics0
On the typology of iconic contributions0
Iconicity and gradient at-issueness: insights and future avenues0
At-issueness across modalities – are gestural components (more) at-issue in sign languages?0
Native speakers and syllable structure0
Locality in focus marking0
The information status of iconic enrichments: modelling gradient at-issueness0
Towards dynamic inquisitive semantics of dialogue0
Subregular linguistics: bridging theoretical linguistics and formal grammar0
Dynamic inquisitive semantics—looking ahead and looking back0
Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion0
There is no single Slavic word order type0
Large Language Models and theoretical linguistics0
Slavic languages are Type 3 languages: replies0
On OVS word orders in T3 grammars0
Shaking up counterfactuality: even closer to the linguistic facts0
One way in which Slavic languages really are SVO languages0
Gradient at-issueness and semiotic complexity in gesture: a response0
Gradient at-issueness versus uncertainty about binary at-issueness0
‘Direct’ elicitation and phonological argumentation0
A usage-based approach to counterfactuality: optionality of the apodosis0
Universal parameters yielding counterfactuals0
Uniqueness requirements of wh-questions in discourse0
Some remarks on the fine structure of ideophones and the meaning of structure0
Slavic languages – “SVO” languages without SVO qualities?0
Frontmatter0
Social meaning0
Variations on Anderson Conditionals0
Linguistic typology in action: how to know more0
Frontmatter0
Truthmaker-based content: syntactic, semantic, and ontological contexts0
Another way to look at counterfactuals0
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