Derek Nurse
Impact in
- Linguistics and Language top 0.5%
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Archeology top 2%
Papers in
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- Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis 16
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation 11
- Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity 5
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- Multilingual Education and Policy 20
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology 15
- Co-authors
- Gérard Philippson (7 shared papers)Bernd Heine (4 shared papers)Thomas Spear (7 shared papers)John P. Hutchison (1 shared paper)Thomas J. Hinnebusch (3 shared papers)Koen Bostoen (1 shared paper)Mark van de Velde (1 shared paper)Marguerite Ylvisaker (1 shared paper)
In The Last Decade
Derek Nurse
61 papers receiving 1.0k citations
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 89
- Linguistics and Language 681
- Archeology 74
- Language and Linguistics 751
- Anthropology 415
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 220
Countries citing papers authored by Derek Nurse
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Fields of papers citing papers by Derek Nurse
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Derek Nurse, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 66 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2001 | 278 | |
| 2 | 2003 | 146 | |
| 3 | Swahili and Sabaki: A Linguistic History | 1993 | 143 |
| 4 | 1985 | 138 | |
| 5 | 1986 | 100 | |
| 6 | 2008 | 79 | |
| 7 | 1997 | 53 | |
| 8 | 2007 | 46 | |
| 9 | 2003 | 42 | |
| 10 | The Diachronic Background to the Language Communities of Southwestern Tanzania | 1988 | 42 |
| 11 | History and the Testimony of Language | 2012 | 40 |
| 12 | Historical language contact in Africa | 2001 | 36 |
| 13 | 2006 | 29 | |
| 14 | Inheritance, Contact and Change in Two East African Languages | 2000 | 27 |
| 15 | A Tentative Classification of the Primary Dialects of Swahili | 1982 | 26 |
| 16 | 2003 | 20 | |
| 17 | 1982 | 20 | |
| 18 | 2019 | 17 | |
| 19 | Description of sample Bantu languages of Tanzania | 1979 | 17 |
| 20 | 1982 | 14 |
About Derek Nurse
Derek Nurse is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language, Anthropology, Political Science and International Relations and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, having authored 66 papers that have together received 1.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Multilingual Education and Policy (20 papers), Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis (16 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (15 papers), Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (14 papers), African history and culture studies (11 papers), Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (11 papers), African history and culture analysis (11 papers) and Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Linguistics and Language (681 citations), Archeology (74 citations), Language and Linguistics (751 citations), Anthropology (415 citations) and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (220 citations). Derek Nurse has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, Tanzania and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Gérard Philippson, Bernd Heine, Thomas Spear, John P. Hutchison, Thomas J. Hinnebusch, Koen Bostoen, Mark van de Velde, Marguerite Ylvisaker, Maarten Mous and Roland Kießling. Their work appears in journals such as The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Azania Archaeological Research in Africa, The American Historical Review, Journal of African Languages and Linguistics and History in Africa.
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