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| 4 | Syntactic processing: Evidence from dutch | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 1987 | 241 |
| 5 | Foot and word in prosodic morphology: The Arabic broken plural | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 1990 | 202 |
| 6 | Object positions | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 1991 | 192 |
| 7 | Empty categories, case, and configurationality | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 1984 | 186 |
| 8 | Theoretical and developmental issues in the syntax of subjects: Evidence from near-native Italian | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 2007 | 186 |
| 9 | Warlpiri and the grammar of non-configurational languages | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 1983 | 182 |
| 10 | The Scale of Finiteness and the Calculus of Control | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 2004 | 182 |
| 11 | Similarity Avoidance and the OCP | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 2004 | 172 |
| 13 | A prosodic theory of epenthesis | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 1989 | 167 |
| 17 | Multiple agree with clitics: person complementarity vs. omnivorous number | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 2011 | 155 |
| 18 | The representation of third person and its consequences for person-case effects | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 2007 | 151 |
| 19 | Case and grammatical functions: The Icelandic passive | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 1985 | 144 |
| 20 | Coordination and how to distinguish categories | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 1985 | 144 |
| 21 | Bengali intonational phonology | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 1991 | 139 |
| 22 | On multiple questions and multiple WH fronting | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 1988 | 138 |
| 23 | The role of agreement in clitic-doubled constructions | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 1988 | 134 |
| 24 | The lexical integrity principle: Evidence from Bantu | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 1995 | 129 |
| 25 | From Old French to the theory of pro-drop | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 1987 | 128 |
| 28 | Combinatory grammars and parasitic gaps | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 1987 | 121 |
| 29 | Spec of IP and spec of VP: Two subjects in Austronesian languages | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 1992 | 118 |
| 30 | Subjects, topics and the interpretation of referential pro | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 2007 | 118 |
| 31 | The proper treatment of measuring out, telicity, and perhaps even quantification in english | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 1996 | 116 |
| 32 | On the syntactic category of pronouns and agreement | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 1995 | 113 |
| 33 | Long Distance Agreement in Hindi-Urdu | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 2005 | 113 |
| 34 | Two modalities of case assignment: case in Sakha | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 2010 | 110 |
| 35 | The gradual emergence of phonological form in a new language | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 2011 | 110 |
| 37 | The Domain of Agreement | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 2005 | 104 |
| 38 | Anticausativization | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 2008 | 103 |
| 39 | Positive Polarity – Negative Polarity | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 2004 | 101 |
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| 41 | Partial and multiple Wh-movement | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 1989 | 94 |
| 42 | Where did all the arguments go?: argument-changing properties of classifiers in asl | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 2004 | 94 |
| 43 | On the syntax of disjunction scope | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 1985 | 92 |
| 44 | Contrastive Focus Reduplication in English (The Salad-Salad Paper) | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 2004 | 92 |
| 45 | Clause structure and V-movement in the languages of the Balkans | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 1994 | 91 |
| 47 | Movement of Wh-phrases in Japanese | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 1993 | 89 |
| 48 | Two kinds of null arguments in American Sign Language | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 1986 | 88 |
| 50 | Prosody–Syntax Interaction in the Expression of Focus | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 2005 | 88 |