| 2002 | - | The learning guided evolution of natural language - Turkel | :: | 14 |
| 1996 | - | Competing motivations and emergence: explaining implicational hierarchies - KIRBY | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | Brain evolution and neurolinguistic preconditions - Wilkins,Wakefield | :: | 11 |
| 1995 | - | Without Miracles: Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution - CZIKO | :: | 10 |
| 1995 | - | The Logical Problem of Language Change - Niyogi,Berwick | :: | 26 |
| 1995 | - | Neural preconditions for proto-language - Kirby,Hurford | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | Language Processing as a Reason for Linguistic Structure and Change - BERG | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | Grammaticalisation by re-analysis in an adaptive model of language change: a case study of the English genitive constructions - WEDGWOOD | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | Syntactic variation andchange in progress: Loss of verbal coda in topic-restricting as far as constructions - RICKFORD,THOMASWASOW,ESPINOZA | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | The minimalist program - MARANTZ | :: | 2 |
| 1994 | - | On language change: The invisible hand in language - Keller | :: | 21 |
| 1994 | - | A selection model explanation of the distribution of relativisation strategies on the accessibility hierarchy - KIRBY | :: | 1 |
| 1994 | - | Innate biases and critical periods: Combining evolution and learning in the acquisition of syntax - Batali | :: | 46 |
| 1994 | - | Adaptive explanations for language universals: a model of Hawkins' performance theory - KIRBY | :: | 8 |
| 1994 | - | Competing motivations and synchronic analysis - NEWMEYER | :: | 2 |
| 1994 | - | Formal and Computational Aspects of Functional Grammar and Language Typology - BAKKER | :: | 1 |
| 1994 | - | A performance theory of order and constituency - HAWKINS | :: | 21 |
| 1994 | - | Some issues in a performance theory of word order - HAWKINS | :: | 2 |
| 1994 | - | A note on Chomsky on form and function - NEWMEYER | :: | 2 |
| 1994 | - | Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar - POLLARD,SAG | :: | 17 |
| 1994 | - | Constraints on constraints, or the limits of functional adaptation - KIRBY | :: | 4 |
| 1994 | - | Infinite Languages, Finite Minds: Connectionism, Learning and Linguistic Structure - Christiansen | :: | 25 |
| 1994 | - | Morphosyntactic variation - KROCH | :: | 3 |
| 1994 | - | Genes, phenes and the Baldwin effect: learning and evolution in a simulated population - FRENCH,MESSINGER | :: | 1 |
| 1994 | - | Learning and evolution in neural networks - NOLFI,JEFFREY,PARISI | :: | 1 |
| 1993 | - | Minimal projection, heads and optimality - GRIMSHAW | :: | 1 |
| 1993 | - | Functional-typological theory in its historical and intellectual context - CROFT | :: | 2 |
| 1993 | - | Linguistic evolution: language change, variation and selection - MCGILL | :: | 1 |
| 1993 | - | A Computational Model of Language Learnability and Language Change - Clark,Roberts | :: | 25 |
| 1992 | - | Syntactic weight versus information structure in word order variation - HAWKINS | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | Innateness and Function in Language Universals - Hawkins | :: | 6 |
| 1992 | - | The Greenbergian word order correlations - DRYER | :: | 13 |
| 1992 | - | Synthetic Ethology: An approach to the study of communication - MacLennan | :: | 56 |
| 1992 | - | Morphology and Mind: a Unified Approach to Explanation in Linguistics - HALL | :: | 2 |
| 1992 | - | A minimalist program for linguistic theory - CHOMSKY | :: | 4 |
| 1992 | - | Iconicity and generative grammar - NEWMEYER | :: | 6 |
| 1992 | - | Complexity and Complex Adaptive Systems - Gell-Mann | :: | 8 |
| 1992 | - | Syntax - FISCHER | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | Heads, parsing, and word order universals - HAWKINS | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | The Evolution of the Critical Period for Language Acquisition - Hurford | :: | 31 |
| 1991 | - | Subjacency and sex - LIGHTFOOT | :: | 10 |
| 1991 | - | SVO languages and the OV:VO typology - DRYER | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | Incremental learning, or the importance of starting small - ELMAN | :: | 2 |
| 1991 | - | Introduction to Government and Binding Theory - HAEGEMAN | :: | 12 |
| 1991 | - | Functional explanation in linguistics and the origins of language - Newmeyer | :: | 26 |
| 1991 | - | Interactions between learning and evolution - ACKLEY,LITTMAN | :: | 11 |
| 1991 | - | Grammaticalization: a Conceptual Framework - HEINE,ULRIKE,HUNNEMEYER | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | Approaches to Grammaticalization Vol - TRAUGOTT,HEINE | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | The syntax of noun phrases: configuration, parameters and empty categories - GIORGI,LONGOBARDI | :: | 1 |
| 1990 | - | A parsing theory of word order universals - HAWKINS | :: | 6 |
| 1990 | - | Typology and universals - CROFT | :: | 24 |
| 1990 | - | Free relatives revisited - CANN,TAIT | :: | 1 |
| 1990 | - | Nativist and functional explanations in language acquisition - Hurford | :: | 26 |
| 1990 | - | Evolution, learning, and culture: computational metaphors for adaptive algorithms - BELEW | :: | 8 |
| 1990 | - | Finding structure in time - Elman | :: | 49 |
| 1990 | - | Relativisation strategies: NP accessibility in Welsh - TALLERMAN | :: | 2 |
| 1990 | - | Language and Species - Bickerton | :: | 87 |
| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 168 |
| 1989 | - | Reflexes of grammar in patterns of language change - Kroch | :: | 29 |
| 1989 | - | Function andgrammar in the history of English - KROCH | :: | 2 |
| 1989 | - | The child's trigger experience: Degree-0 learnability - LIGHTFOOT | :: | 4 |
| 1989 | - | Evolution, selection and cognition: from ``learning'' to parameter setting in biology and the study of language - PIATTELLI-PALMERINI | :: | 1 |
| 1989 | - | Speaking: from Intention to Articulation - LEVELT | :: | 5 |
| 1989 | - | Genes in Populations - SPIESS | :: | 2 |
| 1989 | - | Biological evolution of the Saussurean sign as a component of the language acquisition device - Hurford | :: | 102 |
| 1988 | - | Explaining language universals - HAWKINS | :: | 12 |
| 1988 | - | Parameterizing the language processing system: left vs - FRAZIER,RAYNER | :: | 1 |
| 1988 | - | Integrating diachronic and processing principles in explaining the suffixing preference - HALL | :: | 2 |
| 1988 | - | The processing of restrictive relative clauses in Hungarian - MACWHINNEY,PLEH | :: | 4 |
| 1988 | - | The innateness hypothesis - HOEKSTRA,KOOIJ | :: | 4 |
| 1988 | - | Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures - CHOMSKY | :: | 12 |
| 1988 | - | The diachronic dimension in explanation - BYBEE | :: | 3 |
| 1987 | - | Paramaters, binding theory and learnability - MANZINI,WEXLER | :: | 1 |
| 1987 | - | Language and Number: the emergence of a cognitive system - Hurford | :: | 26 |
| 1987 | - | How learning can guide evolution - HINTON,NOWLAN | :: | 31 |
| 1987 | - | The discourse basis of ergativity - DUBOIS | :: | 2 |
| 1987 | - | The psychological validity of the accessibility hierarchy - KEENAN,SARAHHAWKINS | :: | 1 |
| 1986 | - | A computational analysis of uniqueness points in auditory word recognition - LUCE | :: | 1 |
| 1986 | - | Processing strategies in the acquisition of relative clauses: Universal principles and language-specific realizations - CLANCY,HYEONIJIN,ZOH | :: | 1 |
| 1986 | - | Relevance: Communication and Cognition - SPERBER,WILSON | :: | 16 |
| 1986 | - | Knowledge of Language - CHOMSKY | :: | 23 |
| 1986 | - | Introduction to the Theory of Grammar - RIEMSDIJK,WILLIAMS | :: | 3 |
| 1985 | - | The suffixing preference: a processing explanation - CUTLER,HAWKINS,GILLIGAN | :: | 4 |
| 1985 | - | Syntactic complexity - FRAZIER | :: | 1 |
| 1985 | - | Natural Syntax: Iconicity and Erosion - HAIMAN | :: | 3 |
| 1985 | - | Morphology: A study of the relation between meaning and form - Bybee | :: | 10 |
| 1985 | - | Iconicity, isomorphism and non-arbitrary coding in syntax - ON | :: | 1 |
| 1984 | - | Parameters and Effects of Word Order Variation - TRAVIS | :: | 2 |
| 1984 | - | Introduction to the grammar of English - HUDDLESTON | :: | 1 |
| 1984 | - | The Nature of Selection: Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus - SOBER | :: | 6 |
| 1984 | - | Form and substance in language universals - HYMAN | :: | 1 |
| 1984 | - | The Grammatical Basis of Linguistic Performance: Language Use and Acquisition - BERWICK,WEINBERG | :: | 6 |
| 1983 | - | Word Order Universals - HAWKINS | :: | 7 |
| 1983 | - | Marking-reversals and cultural importance - WITKOWSKI,BROWN | :: | 1 |
| 1983 | - | The Modularity of Mind - FODOR | :: | 12 |
| 1983 | - | Hens' Teeth and Horses' Toes - GOULD | :: | 1 |
| 1983 | - | Hierarchies, targets and controllers: agreement patterns in Slavic - CORBETT | :: | 1 |
| 1983 | - | Monitoring and self-repair in speech - LEVELT | :: | 1 |
| 1982 | - | Exaptation --a missing term in the science of form - GOULD,VRBA | :: | 14 |
| 1982 | - | The Extended Phenotype - DAWKINS | :: | 17 |
| 1982 | - | Local and general markedness - TIERSMA | :: | 1 |
| 1982 | - | Basic syntactic processes - MACWHINNEY | :: | 6 |
| 1982 | - | The Growth of Biological Thought - MAYR | :: | 3 |
| 1981 | - | Origins of Phrase Structure - STOWELL | :: | 2 |
| 1981 | - | Towards an account of the possessive constructions np's n and the n of np - HAWKINS | :: | 1 |
| 1981 | - | The conjoined-clause analysis of relative clauses - TAVAKOLIAN | :: | 1 |
| 1981 | - | Lectures on Government and Binding - CHOMSKY | :: | 37 |
| 1981 | - | Language Universals and Linguistic Typology - COMRIE | :: | 13 |
| 1980 | - | On Explaining Language Change - LASS | :: | 5 |
| 1980 | - | Rules and Representations - CHOMSKY | :: | 55 |
| 1980 | - | The positional tendencies of sentential noun phrases in universal grammar - DRYER | :: | 1 |
| 1980 | - | A Theory of Syntactic Recognition for Natural Language - MARCUS | :: | 5 |
| 1980 | - | Transformational errors - FAY | :: | 1 |
| 1979 | - | Strategies of relativization and NP accessibility - MAXWELL | :: | 2 |
| 1979 | - | Matching effects in free relatives: a parameter of core grammar - GROOS,RIEMSDIJK | :: | 1 |
| 1979 | - | The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme - GOULD,LEWONTIN | :: | 13 |
| 1979 | - | On Understanding Grammar - ON | :: | 2 |
| 1979 | - | Data on the noun phrase accessibility hierarchy - KEENAN,COMRIE | :: | 2 |
| 1979 | - | Children's comprehension of relative clauses - DEVILLIERS,TAGER-FLUSBERG,HAKUTA,COHEN | :: | 1 |
| 1979 | - | Noun phrase accessibility revisited - COMRIE,KEENAN | :: | 3 |
| 1978 | - | Diachrony, synchrony, and language universals - GREENBERG | :: | 2 |
| 1977 | - | The acquisition of relative clauses in French and English - SHELDON | :: | 1 |
| 1977 | - | Aspects of subject-verb agreement - VANEK | :: | 1 |
| 1977 | - | Filters and control - CHOMSKY,LASNIK | :: | 4 |
| 1977 | - | Three cases of overgeneration - HALE,LAVERNE,PLATERO | :: | 1 |
| 1977 | - | X-Syntax: A Study of Phrase Structure - JACKENDOFF | :: | 3 |
| 1977 | - | Noun phrase accessibility and universal grammar - KEENAN,COMRIE | :: | 6 |
| 1975 | - | The semantic function of word order: A case study in Mandarin - LI,THOMPSON | :: | 1 |
| 1975 | - | Questions of form and interpretation - CHOMSKY | :: | 1 |
| 1974 | - | The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change - LEWONTIN | :: | 4 |
| 1974 | - | On the role of parallel function in the acquisition of relative clauses in English - SHELDON | :: | 1 |
| 1972 | - | Sociolinguistic patterns - LABOV | :: | 11 |
| 1972 | - | Relative clause formation in Malagasy - KEENAN | :: | 2 |
| 1972 | - | The logical status of deep structures - KEENAN | :: | 2 |
| 1966 | - | Language universals with special reference to feature hierarchies - GREENBERG | :: | 5 |
| 1963 | - | Some universals of grammar with particular reference to the order of meaningful elements - GREENBERG | :: | 15 |
| 1896 | - | A new factor in evolution - BALDWIN | :: | 37 |