| 1995 | - | The minimalist program - Chomsky | :: | 38 |
| 1981 | - | Lectures on government and binding - Chomsky | :: | 37 |
| 2000 | - | Grammatical Acquisition: Inductive Bias and Coevolution of Language and the Language Acquisition Device - Briscoe | :: | 36 |
| 1998 | - | Fitness and the selective adaptation of language - Kirby | :: | 33 |
| 1986 | - | Knowledge of language: Its nature, origin, and use - Chomsky | :: | 32 |
| 1984 | - | The Language Bioprogram Hypothesis - Bickerton | :: | 30 |
| 1988 | - | Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics - Thomason,Kaufman | :: | 14 |
| 1988 | - | Creole languages and the bioprogram - Bickerton | :: | 6 |
| 1998 | - | Contact languages: Pidgins and creoles - Sebba | :: | 5 |
| 1994 | - | Pidgins and creoles: An introduction - Arends,Muysken,Smith | :: | 4 |
| 1997 | - | A typology of contact languages - Thomason | :: | 4 |
| 1996 | - | Growing artificial societies - Epstein,Axtell | :: | 3 |
| 1999 | - | How to acquire language without positive evidence: What acquisitionists can learn from creoles - Bickerton | :: | 3 |
| 1971 | - | Language in social groups - Gumperz | :: | 2 |
| 1994 | - | Turtles, termites, and traffic jams: Explorations in massively parallel microworlds - Resnick | :: | 2 |
| 1992 | - | The sociohistorical matrix of creolization - Bickerton | :: | 2 |
| 1999 | - | Bilingual selection of syntactic knowledge - Satterfield | :: | 2 |
| 1971 | - | Dynamic models of segregation - Schelling | :: | 1 |
| 2000 | - | The origin of the syntax and semantics of property items in Surinamese plantation creole - Migge | :: | 1 |
| 1969 | - | Models of segregation - Schelling | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | Demographic factors in the formation of Sranan - Arends | :: | 1 |
| 1987 | - | Language contact in a plantation environment - Siegel | :: | 1 |
| 1990 | - | Decentralized, dispersed exchange without an auctioneer: A simulation study - Albin,Foley | :: | 1 |