Robert Frank

Biographic Data

ID107646
NAMERobert Frank
GIVEN NAMESRobert
FAMILY NAMEFrank
SIGNATUREFRANK R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Cincinnati
ORCID0000-0001-9253-1658
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS52
TOTAL CITATIONS188
AUTHOR COUNT51
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1947
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX7

  • Sommes-nous en avant-guerre

    Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, Muriel Domenach et al.ARTICLEL' Histoire2026

    La participation des femmes ne devient réellement transformatrice que lorsqu’elle intervient tôt, pèse sur les arbitrages centraux, représente une pluralité d’expériences sociales du conflit et bénéficie de garanties procédurales et budgétaires. Les quatre cas étudiés montrent que la norme internationale ne suffit pas : ce sont la forme du processus et les conditions de mise en œuvre qui décident de la portée réelle de l’inclusion

  • Vous avez dit « munichois »

    Robert FrankARTICLEL' Histoire2026

    La participation des femmes ne devient réellement transformatrice que lorsqu’elle intervient tôt, pèse sur les arbitrages centraux, représente une pluralité d’expériences sociales du conflit et bénéficie de garanties procédurales et budgétaires. Les quatre cas étudiés montrent que la norme internationale ne suffit pas : ce sont la forme du processus et les conditions de mise en œuvre qui décident de la portée réelle de l’inclusion

  • False perspectives on human language: Why statistics needs linguistics

    Open AccessMatteo Greco, Andrea Cometa et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Language Sciences2023

    A sharp tension exists about the nature of human language between two opposite parties: those who believe that statistical surface distributions, in particular using measures like surprisal, provide a better understanding of language processing, vs. those who believe that discrete hierarchical structures implementing linguistic information such as syntactic ones are a better tool. In this paper, we show that this dichotomy is a false one. Relying…

  • Attention and Locality: On Clause-Boundedness and Its Exceptions in Multiple Sluicing

    Matthew Barros, Robert FrankARTICLELinguistic Inquiry2023Cited by: 2References: 28

    We provide an account of clause-boundedness in multiple sluicing that also captures its exceptions. Clause-boundedness arises whenever an embedded clause's subject is not coreferential with a topical discourse referent in the embedding clause. Our account ties clause-boundedness to discourse factors. We discuss implementations that import sensitivity to information structure into the syntax, and compare our approach with recent work-in particular…

  • Arguments for top-down derivations in syntax

    Open AccessRobert Frank, Hadas KotekARTICLEProceedings of the Linguistic…2022

    This paper argues for a top-down approach to syntactic structure building, instead of the more popularly assumed bottom-up approach. We present phenomena where properties of a higher structure condition elements or operations in a lower domain. The opposite pattern is, we claim, much rarer and more restricted. This follows from a top-down approach, given the relative time at which elements are integrated into the structure. Bottom-up derivations,…

  • Dix ans déjà

    Robert Frank, Stanislas JeannessonARTICLEMonde(s2022

    International audience

  • Corporations in the Economy of Esteem: Perspectives Integrating Philosophy and Social Science

    Robert Frank, Subramanian Rangan et al.BOOKCapitalism Beyond Mutuality?2018

    Even in a regulated and competitive market economy the behavior of firms leaves much to be desired. Beyond the invisible hand of the market and the iron hand of the law, this chapter outlines arguments for an intangible hand of civil society. The central mechanisms in the model rely on social esteem and self-esteem. These depend on assessments of true intentions and dispositions for costly pro-social actions. Instrumental pro-social actions matte…

  • Vystúpenia z druhej svetovej vojny

    Open AccessRobert FrankARTICLEForum Historiae2018

    ojem "vystpen z vojny" vypracovali historici za poslednch dvans rokov

  • Eliminating Rightward Movement: Extraposition as Flexible Linearization of Adjuncts

    Tim Hunter, Tim B Hunter et al.ARTICLELinguistic Inquiry2014Cited by: 3References: 29

    We propose an account of adjunct extraposition that does not invoke rightward movement. Instead, the noncanonical placement of adjuncts at the right edge of a sentence arises from the very same mechanisms that allow adjuncts to behave flexibly with respect to basic constituency tests and to avoid reconstruction. The system we propose naturally explains the locality restrictions on extraposition and certain interactions between extraposition and m…

  • The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good (translated by Nikolay Edelman)

    Open AccessRobert FrankARTICLEJournal of Economic Sociology2013

    Paralysis», in which Robert Frank discusses reasons why the US political system seems to be paralyzed, even in the face of urgent economic problems.According to the author, this paralysis mainly stems from the existing ignorance of the basic facts and logic that govern human behavior

  • Notes on Phase Extension

    Robert FrankARTICLETheoretical Linguistics2007

    1. The ingredients of locality Since the early 1960s, one of the major goals of work in generative syntax has been to explain the locality properties of syntactic dependencies. Current accounts in the Minimalist framework derive locality from two basic notions. First, the syntactic relations that give rise to agreement and displacement are subjected to the Minimal Link Condition , which stipulates that such relations can obtain only in the absenc…

  • Phase theory and Tree Adjoining Grammar

    Open AccessRobert FrankARTICLELingua2006Cited by: 4References: 16

  • Les identités européennes au XXe siècle: Diversités, convergences et solidarités

    Open AccessAndrèe Bachoud, Laurence Badel et al.BOOKLes identités européennes au XXe…2004

    Ce livre se veut un bilan des travaux d'un réseau international de cent quatre-vingts chercheurs qui ont participé à un programme de recherche sur le thème « Identités et conscience européennes au XXe siècle ». Dix chapitres s'interrogent sur l'étonnant paradoxe de la fin du XXe siècle, entre l'accélération de la construction de l'Europe, considérée par tous comme irréversible, et la faiblesse relative du sentiment européen, le « déficit d'imagin…

  • Les années grises de la fin de siècle

    Robert Frank, Robert Franck et al.ARTICLEVingtième Siècle Revue d histoire2004Cited by: 2

  • L'Europe de l'Est et de l'Ouest dans la Guerre froide, 1948-1953

    Justine Faure, Saki Dockrill et al.ARTICLEVingtième Siècle Revue d histoire2004Cited by: 4

  • Conceptualizing Hybridization: On the Diffusion of Asian Medical Knowledge to Germany

    Open AccessRobert Frank, Robert T Frank et al.ARTICLEInternational Sociology2004Cited by: 13References: 12

    Scholars have explored a broad range of topics affected by the dynamics of globalization. The field of 'medicine', however, has largely been neglected, even though there is a long history of transcontinental diffusion of medical knowledge. This article aims to analyse the latest episode in medical globalization: the diffusion of Asian medical knowledge to the western world. Twenty-nine semistructured interviews with German medical doctors who are…

  • Medical acupuncture in Germany: Patterns of Consumerism Among Physicians and Patients

    Open AccessRobert Frank, Robert T Frank et al.ARTICLESociology of Health & Illness2004Cited by: 7References: 17

    Since the (re) emergence of heterodox medicine across the Western world, there have been numerous interpretations of this phenomenon by the social sciences. Heterodox patients were said to be active consumers holding postmodern values, while heterodox physicians were described as heretics. Medical doctors taking up heterodox medicine were criticised for acting in their own financial interests. To examine these notions, we selected the most promin…

  • Towards an ethnography of Indian homeopathy

    Robert Frank, Robert T Frank et al.ARTICLEAnthropology and Medicine2004Cited by: 4References: 11

    Despite its large number of practitioners, medical anthropology has given little attention to Indian homeopathy. In historical accounts, homeopathy's popularity is explained by its position as a modern, yet non-colonial form of medicine, which became indigenized during the last 150 years. Other scholars argue that homeopathic concepts converge with Indian ideas on healing. However, few empirical data have been gathered on homeopathic practice in …

  • Validation and cross-national comparison of the food neophobia scale (FNS) using confirmatory factor analysis

    Open AccessP Neal Ritchey, Phillip N Ritchey et al.ARTICLEAppetite2003Cited by: 28References: 15

  • Phrase Structure Composition and Syntactic Dependencies

    Open AccessRobert FrankARTICLEComputational Linguistics2002Cited by: 1

    In Phrase Structure Composition and Syntactic Dependencies, Robert Frank explores an approach to syntactic theory that weds the Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) formalism with the minimalist framework. TAG has been extensively studied both for its mathematical properties and for its usefulness in computational linguistics applications. Frank shows that incorporating TAG's formally restrictive operations for structure building considerably simplifies …

  • Integrating homeopathy and biomedicine: Medical practice and knowledge production among German homeopathic physicians

    Open AccessRobert Frank, Robert T FrankARTICLESociology of Health & Illness2002Cited by: 21References: 8

    The purpose of this study is to assess the ways in which homeopathic physicians deal with the conceptual tensions between homeopathy and biomedicine. The data-collection included twenty semi-structured interviews which were conducted with homeopathic physicians in Berlin. Three distinct patterns of homeopathic practice emerged from the data: a) segregating the patients into categories of homeopathic and biomedical patients; b) complementing a pre…

  • Ayurvedic patients in Germany

    Robert Frank, Robert T Frank et al.ARTICLEAnthropology and Medicine2002Cited by: 5References: 21

    In the sociology of health and illness, the heterogeneous field of heterodox medicine is often conceptualised as a more or less homogeneous entity. All kinds of heterodox modes of treatment are pooled together in order to discover the heterodox patient. In this way, differences between several heterodox modes of treatment are lost and the emerging picture remains vague. In this paper, we concentrate on one particular mode of treatment: Ayurveda. …

  • Primitive C-Command

    Open AccessRobert Frank, K Vijay‐shankerARTICLESyntax2001Cited by: 4

    Work in syntactic theory almost universally assumes that hierarchy in syntactic structure is characterized in terms of an abstract primitive relation of dominance. In this paper, we suggest that hierarchy should instead be determined via a primitive c-command relation. This perspective turns out to restrict the range of possible syntactic structures in a linguistically natural way, deriving restrictions on possible configurations that must otherw…

  • Une histoire problématique, une histoire du temps présent

    Robert Frank, Robert FranckARTICLEVingtième Siècle Revue d histoire2001References: 1

    Une histoire problématique, une histoire du temps présent, Robert Frank. L'histoire de l'Europe restera problématique tant que l'on ne s'entendra pas sur son objet. Parle-t-on d'Europe-continent, d'Europe-civilisation, d'Europe-idéal ou d'Europe-construction ? Pour réduire cette incertitude, l'auteur appelle en renfort l'histoire comparée, l'histoire des relations internationales et l'histoire du temps présent. Il invoque les « forces profondes »…

  • Food Neophobia in Childhood Affects Dietary Variety

    Open AccessGrace Falciglia, Grace A Falciglia et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Dietetic…2000