| 2007 | - | The Origins of Meaning: Language in the Light of Evolution - Hurford | :: | 1 |
| 2007 | - | Language change and the inference of meaning - Smith | :: | 2 |
| 2007 | - | Did our ancestors speak a holistic protolanguage? - Tallerman | :: | 6 |
| 2005 | - | From monkey-like action recognition to human language: An evolutionary framework for neurolinguistics - Arbib | :: | 19 |
| 2005 | - | The Inferential Transmission of Language - Smith | :: | 9 |
| 2005 | - | The unfolding of language: an evolutionary tour of mankind's greatest invention - Deutscher | :: | 3 |
| 2005 | - | Regularity in semantic change - Traugott,Dasher | :: | 3 |
| 2005 | - | The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body - Mithen | :: | 4 |
| 2005 | - | Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition - Tomasello,Carpenter,Call,Behne,Moll | :: | 6 |
| 2004 | - | A pragmatic perspective on the evolution and language and languages - Origgi,Sperber | :: | 1 |
| 2004 | - | From UG to Universals: linguistic adaptation through iterated learning - Kirby,Smith,Brighton | :: | 16 |
| 2003 | - | Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition - Tomasello | :: | 30 |
| 2003 | - | The Language Mosaic and its Evolution - Hurford | :: | 7 |
| 2003 | - | Grammaticalization - Hopper,Traugott | :: | 13 |
| 2002 | - | Metaphor: a practical introduction - Kovecses | :: | 1 |
| 2002 | - | World lexicon of grammaticalization - Heine,Kuteva | :: | 5 |
| 2002 | - | Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution - Jackendoff | :: | 59 |
| 2001 | - | Radical construction grammar: syntactic theory in typological perspective - Croft | :: | 14 |
| 2001 | - | Segmentation of the speech stream in a non- human primate: statistical learning in cotton-top tamarins - Hauser,Newport,Aslin | :: | 16 |
| 2001 | - | Auxiliation: an enquiry into the nature of grammaticalization - Kuteva | :: | 2 |
| 2000 | - | Evolution, communication and the proper function of lan- guage - Origgi,Sperber | :: | 5 |
| 2000 | - | Explaining Language Change: An Evolutionary Approach - Croft | :: | 17 |
| 2000 | - | Holistic utterances in protolanguage: The link from primates to humans - Wray | :: | 16 |
| 1999 | - | The Origins of Complex Language: An Inquiry into the Evolutionary Beginnings of Sentences, Syllables, and Truth - Carstairs-McCarthy | :: | 15 |
| 1996 | - | Historical linguistics - Trask | :: | 18 |
| 1996 | - | Statistical learning by 8-month-old infants - Saffran,Aslin,Newport | :: | 24 |
| 1995 | - | Language and human behavior - Bickerton | :: | 15 |
| 1995 | - | Relevance : Communication and cognition - Sperber,Wilson | :: | 16 |
| 1995 | - | Linguistic categorization: prototypes in linguistic theory - Taylor | :: | 10 |
| 1995 | - | Constructions: A construction grammar approach to argument structure - Goldberg | :: | 19 |
| 1990 | - | How monkeys see the world: Inside the mind of another species - Cheney,Seyfarth | :: | 52 |
| 1990 | - | Language and Species - Bickerton | :: | 87 |
| 1989 | - | Oxford English Dictionary - Simpson,Weiner | :: | 3 |
| 1987 | - | Women, fire and dangerous things: what categories reveal about the mind - Lakoff | :: | 11 |
| 1976 | - | Inquiries into the origin of language: the fate of a question - Stam | :: | 2 |
| 1976 | - | Basic objects in natural categories - Rosch,Mervis,Gray,Johnson,Boyes-Braem | :: | 7 |
| 1975 | - | Logic and conversation - Grice | :: | 22 |
| 1960 | - | Word and object - Quine | :: | 40 |
| 1957 | - | Meaning - Grice | :: | 5 |