| 1998 | - | Language form and language function - Newmeyer | :: | 13 |
| 1997 | - | Guns, germs, and steel : the fate of human societies - Diamond | :: | 4 |
| 1996 | - | Terrestriality, bipedalism, and the origin of language - Aiello | :: | 3 |
| 1995 | - | Brain evolution and neurolinguistic preconditions - Wilkins,Wakefield | :: | 11 |
| 1991 | - | Subjacency and sex - Lightfoot | :: | 10 |
| 1991 | - | Functional explanation in linguistics and the origins of language - Newmeyer | :: | 26 |
| 1990 | - | Linguistic diversity and the first settlement of the New World - Nichols | :: | 4 |
| 1990 | - | Language and Species - Bickerton | :: | 87 |
| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 168 |
| 1985 | - | Morphology: A study of the relation between meaning and form - Bybee | :: | 10 |
| 1977 | - | Noun phrase accessibility and universal grammar - Keenan,Comrie | :: | 6 |
| 1963 | - | Some universals of language with special reference to the order of meaningful elements - Greenberg | :: | 2 |
| 1960 | - | The origin of speech - Hockett | :: | 24 |