| xxxx | - | Constraints on constraints, or the limits of functional adaptation - Kirby | :: | 4 |
| 2002 | - | The learning guided evolution of natural language - Turkel | :: | 13 |
| 1999 | - | Linguistic Diversity - Nettle | :: | 15 |
| 1999 | - | Function, Selection and Innateness: the Emergence of Language Universals - Kirby | :: | 62 |
| 1998 | - | Fitness and the selective adaptation of language - Kirby | :: | 31 |
| 1997 | - | Functionalism and formalism in linguistics: proceedings of the 23rd UWM linguistics symposium - Moravcsik | :: | 1 |
| 1997 | - | Unambiguous triggers - Fodor | :: | 6 |
| 1997 | - | Language acquisition: the bioprogram hypothesis and the Baldwin Effect - Briscoe | :: | 7 |
| 1997 | - | Language Form and Language Function, chapter Langauge Typology and its Difficulties - Newmeyer | :: | 1 |
| 1997 | - | Competing motivations and emergence: explaining implicational hierarchies - Kirby | :: | 11 |
| 1997 | - | The evolution of incremental learning: language, development and critical periods - Kirby,Hurford | :: | 8 |
| 1997 | - | Noise-induced enhancement of parameter setting - Turkel | :: | 1 |
| 1996 | - | Internal and external factors affecting language change: A computational model - Clark | :: | 7 |
| 1995 | - | The Logical Problem of Language Change - Niyogi,Berwick | :: | 24 |
| 1994 | - | Linguistic Inquiry - Gibson,Triggers | :: | 5 |
| 1994 | - | A performance theory of order and constituency - Hawkins | :: | 20 |
| 1994 | - | Adaptive explanations for language universals: a model of Hawkins' performance theory - Kirby | :: | 8 |
| 1993 | - | A Computational Model of Language Learnability and Language Change - Clark,Roberts | :: | 24 |
| 1992 | - | The selection of syntactic knowledge - Clark | :: | 11 |
| 1992 | - | The Greenbergian word order correlations - Dryer | :: | 12 |
| 1991 | - | Introduction to Government and Binding Theory - Haegeman | :: | 11 |
| 1991 | - | Functional explanation in linguistics and the origins of language - Newmeyer | :: | 23 |
| 1990 | - | Typology and universals - Croft | :: | 20 |
| 1990 | - | A parsing theory of word order universals - Hawkins | :: | 6 |
| 1990 | - | Evolution, learning, and culture: computational metaphors for adaptive algorithms - Belew | :: | 8 |
| 1988 | - | Explaining language universals - Hawkins | :: | 11 |
| 1987 | - | Language and Number: the emergence of a cognitive system - Hurford | :: | 23 |
| 1987 | - | How learning can guide evolution - Hinton,Nowlan | :: | 29 |
| 1986 | - | Knowledge of Language - Chomsky | :: | 19 |
| 1986 | - | Introduction to the Theory of Grammar - Riemsdijk,Williams | :: | 3 |
| 1984 | - | The Grammatical Basis of Linguistic Performance: Language Use and Acquisition - Berwick,Weinberg | :: | 6 |
| 1981 | - | Language Universals and Linguistic Typology - Comrie | :: | 11 |
| 1967 | - | Biological Foundations of Language - Lenneberg | :: | 16 |
| 1963 | - | Some universals of grammar with particular reference to the order of meaningful elements - Greenberg | :: | 11 |
| 1896 | - | A new factor in evolution - Baldwin | :: | 29 |