| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 168 |
| 1997 | - | The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain - Deacon | :: | 142 |
| 1994 | - | The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language - Pinker | :: | 120 |
| 1990 | - | Language and Species - Bickerton | :: | 87 |
| 2002 | - | The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? - Hauser,Chomsky,Fitch | :: | 82 |
| 2002 | - | Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution - Jackendoff | :: | 59 |
| 1981 | - | Lectures on Government and Binding - Chomsky | :: | 37 |
| 2005 | - | The Faculty of Language: What's Special about it? - Pinker,Jackendoff | :: | 25 |
| 1989 | - | Learnability and Cognition: The acquisition of Argument Structure - Pinker | :: | 22 |
| 1975 | - | The Language of Thought - Fodor | :: | 19 |
| 1995 | - | Constructions: A construction grammar approach to argument structure - Goldberg | :: | 19 |
| 1994 | - | Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar - Pollard,Sag | :: | 17 |
| 1999 | - | Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language - Pinker | :: | 14 |
| 1997 | - | The Architecture of the Language Faculty - Jackendoff | :: | 13 |
| 2000 | - | On nature and language - Chomsky | :: | 12 |
| 2005 | - | The evolution of the language faculty: Clarifications and implications - Fitch,Hauser,Chomsky | :: | 12 |
| 1933 | - | Language - Bloomfield | :: | 7 |
| 2005 | - | Simpler Syntax - Culicover,Jackendoff | :: | 7 |
| 1983 | - | Semantics and Cognition - Jackendoff | :: | 7 |
| 1990 | - | Semantic Structures - Jackendoff | :: | 6 |
| 1983 | - | A Generative Theory of Tonal Music - Lerdahl,Jackendoff | :: | 5 |
| 1992 | - | Languages of the Mind - Jackendoff | :: | 4 |
| 1998 | - | On discontinuing the continuity-discontinuity debate - Aitchison | :: | 4 |
| 1999 | - | Syntactic Nuts: Hard Cases in Syntax - Culicover | :: | 3 |
| 2002 | - | The past and future of the past tense - Pinker,Ullman | :: | 3 |
| 1987 | - | Consciousness and the Computational Mind - Jackendoff | :: | 3 |
| 1972 | - | Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar - Jackendoff | :: | 2 |
| xxxx | - | Constructions at Work: Constructionist Approaches in Context - Goldberg | :: | 2 |
| 1997 | - | Twistin' the night away - Jackendoff | :: | 2 |
| 1994 | - | Remarks on lexical knowledge - Williams | :: | 2 |
| 1990 | - | What would a theory of language evolution have to look like - Jackendoff | :: | 2 |
| 1990 | - | Natural selection and the autonomy of syntax - Newmeyer | :: | 2 |
| 1994 | - | Dealing out meaning: fundamentals of syntactic constructions - Zwicky | :: | 2 |
| 1988 | - | The mechanisms of construction grammar - Fillmore | :: | 2 |
| 1993 | - | Principles and parameters theory - Chomsky,Lasnik | :: | 2 |
| 1998 | - | Conceptualization, symbolization, and grammar - Langacker | :: | 1 |
| 1984 | - | Sentence types and the form-function fit - Akmajian | :: | 1 |
| 1972 | - | OM-sentences - Culicover | :: | 1 |
| 2000 | - | Interrogative Investigations - Ginzburg,Sag | :: | 1 |
| 1988 | - | Regularity and idiomaticity in grammatical constructions: the case of let alone - Fillmore,Kay,O'Connor | :: | 1 |
| 2004 | - | English focus reduplication: the salad-salad paper - Ghomeshi,Jackendoff,Rosen,Russell | :: | 1 |
| 1986 | - | An Introduction to Unification-Based Approaches to Grammar - Shieber | :: | 1 |
| 1993 | - | Economy and redundancy in a dualistic model of natural language - Horn | :: | 1 |
| 1987 | - | Information-Based Syntax and Semantics, Vol - Pollard,Sag | :: | 1 |