| 1991 | - | How to Set Parameters: Arguments from Language Change - Lightfoot | :: | 33 |
| 1989 | - | Reflexes of grammar in patterns of language change - Kroch | :: | 29 |
| 1993 | - | A Computational Model of Language Learnability and Language Change - Clark,Roberts | :: | 25 |
| 1994 | - | Triggers - Gibson,Wexler | :: | 23 |
| 1991 | - | Introduction to Government and Binding Theory - Haegeman | :: | 12 |
| 1994 | - | The Informational Complexity of Learning From Examples - Niyogi | :: | 8 |
| 1982 | - | Grammatical theory and the quantitative study of syntactic change - Kroch | :: | 3 |
| 1989 | - | Function and grammar in the history of english: Periphrastic ''do - Kroch | :: | 2 |
| 1982 | - | A law of change in language - et | :: | 1 |