Binding (linguistics)

Binding - linguistic phenomenon in which anaphoric elements such as pronouns are grammatically associated with their antecedents. Article “Binding (linguistics)” in English Wikipedia has 36.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 16 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Binding (linguistics)”, its content was written by 49 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 104 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 205 times in English Wikipedia and cited 240 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #16445 in March 2005
• Global: #51333 in March 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #317137 in April 2015
• Global: #504932 in April 2015

There are 6 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Bindungstheorie (Sprachwissenschaft)		39.4257
2	English (en) Binding (linguistics)		36.5701
3	French (fr) Théorie du liage		9.3763
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Bindingsteori		0.5236
5	Norwegian (no) Bindingsteori		0.2571
6	Czech (cs) Vázání		0.224

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Binding (linguistics)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Binding (linguistics)		306 621
2	French (fr) Théorie du liage		16 339
3	Czech (cs) Vázání		11 242
4	German (de) Bindungstheorie (Sprachwissenschaft)		3 671
5	Norwegian (no) Bindingsteori		3 118
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Bindingsteori		2 706

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Binding (linguistics)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Binding (linguistics)		949
2	French (fr) Théorie du liage		47
3	German (de) Bindungstheorie (Sprachwissenschaft)		28
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Bindingsteori		11
5	Norwegian (no) Bindingsteori		10
6	Czech (cs) Vázání		9

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Binding (linguistics)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Binding (linguistics)		49
2	French (fr) Théorie du liage		21
3	German (de) Bindungstheorie (Sprachwissenschaft)		18
4	Norwegian (no) Bindingsteori		8
5	Czech (cs) Vázání		4
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Bindingsteori		4

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Binding (linguistics)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Czech (cs) Vázání		0
2	German (de) Bindungstheorie (Sprachwissenschaft)		0
3	English (en) Binding (linguistics)		0
4	French (fr) Théorie du liage		0
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Bindingsteori		0
6	Norwegian (no) Bindingsteori		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Binding (linguistics)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Binding (linguistics)		205
2	Czech (cs) Vázání		13
3	French (fr) Théorie du liage		12
4	German (de) Bindungstheorie (Sprachwissenschaft)		6
5	Norwegian (no) Bindingsteori		3
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Bindingsteori		1

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Vázání
de	German Bindungstheorie (Sprachwissenschaft)
en	English Binding (linguistics)
fr	French Théorie du liage
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Bindingsteori
no	Norwegian Bindingsteori

Best Rank

English: #317137 04.2015

Global: #504932 04.2015

Best Rank

English: #16445 03.2005

Global: #51333 03.2005

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