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Liwen Hou

Liwen Hou has 3 papers in our library, in 2018–2021, most of them on English; often with David A. Smith, David Smith.

3 papers in our library · 2018–2021

OpenAlex · h-index 2 · 4 works · 11 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 3 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 3 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9594

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 Affiliations

🎓Harvard UniversityCambridge · United States2023 · 1 papercurrent

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 3The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 3 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 3 worksLiterature and Literary Theory · 1 work

🧭 Topics 1Research subjects and languages the work is about.English · 3 works

 Works by year

2020s

20212 papers

2010s

20181 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Modeling the Decline in English Passivization (2018 · 7 citations)
    The paper asks why the English passive has become rarer over two centuries. Using the Hansard record of British parliamentary debates, the authors show that by-phrase passives fell from about 8% of two-argument clauses in the 1830s to under 6% in the 1990s. They parsed the debates automatically with the Stanford…
  2. Drivers of English Syntactic Change in the Canadian Parliament (2021 · 5 citations)
    The paper asks why the English of the Canadian House of Commons became more conversational over the twentieth century.
  3. Emerging English Transitives over the Last Two Centuries (2021 · 1 citation)
    The paper asks how English acquires new transitive verbs and tests two hypotheses on that question. The data is the British Hansard, two centuries of UK parliamentary debates, parsed automatically with Stanford CoreNLP. A rule layer on top of the dependency output labels each verb token as transitive (has a dobj)…

 Co-authors here

2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 3 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 1 citing paper with a page here →.

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