| The origins of consonant-vowel metathesis J Blevins, A Garrett Language 74 (3), 508-556, 1998 | 385 | 1998 |
| Ancestry-constrained phylogenetic analysis supports the Indo-European steppe hypothesis W Chang, C Cathcart, D Hall, A Garrett Language 91 (1), 194-244, 2015 | 359 | 2015 |
| Phonetic bias in sound change A Garrett, K Johnson UC Berkeley PhonLab Annual Report 7 (7), 2011 | 299 | 2011 |
| The evolution of metathesis J Blevins, A Garrett Phonetically based phonology, 117-156, 2004 | 286 | 2004 |
| The origin of NP split ergativity A Garrett Language, 261-296, 1990 | 224 | 1990 |
| Convergence in the formation of Indo-European subgroups: phylogeny and chronology A Garrett Phylogenetic methods and the prehistory of languages, 139-151, 2006 | 139 | 2006 |
| The syntax of Anatolian pronominal clitics AJ Garrett Harvard University, 1990 | 131 | 1990 |
| Wackernagel’s Law and unaccusativity in Hittite A Garrett Approaching second: Second position clitics and related phenomena, 85-133, 1996 | 118 | 1996 |
| Sound change A Garrett The Routledge handbook of historical linguistics, 227-248, 2015 | 94 | 2015 |
| Relative clause syntax in Lycian and Hittite A Garrett Die Sprache (Wiesbaden) 36 (1), 29-69, 1994 | 89 | 1994 |
| Paradigmatic uniformity and markedness A Garrett Linguistic universals and language change, 125-143, 2008 | 83 | 2008 |
| Reduplication and infixation in Yurok: Morphology, semantics, and diachrony A Garrett International Journal of American Linguistics 67 (3), 264-312, 2001 | 71 | 2001 |
| The historical syntax problem: Reanalysis and directionality A Garrett Grammatical change: Origins, nature, outcomes, 52-72, 2012 | 69 | 2012 |
| A new model of Indo-European subgrouping and dispersal A Garrett Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 146-156, 1999 | 69 | 1999 |
| Analogical morphophonology A Garrett, J Blevins | 63* | 2008 |
| On the origin of auxiliary do A Garrett English Language and Linguistics 2 (2), 283-330, 1998 | 62 | 1998 |
| Syntax and discourse in Old and Middle English word order A Van Kemenade, T Milicev, D Jonas, J Whitman, A Garrett Grammatical change: Origins, nature, outcomes, 239-254, 2012 | 57 | 2012 |
| Hittite enclitic subjects and transitive verbs A Garrett Journal of Cuneiform Studies 42 (2), 227-242, 1990 | 54 | 1990 |
| Descent and diffusion in language diversification: A study of Western Numic dialectology M Babel, A Garrett, MJ Houser, M Toosarvandani International Journal of American Linguistics 79 (4), 445-489, 2013 | 45 | 2013 |
| The evolution of Ponapeic nasal substitution J Blevins, A Garrett Oceanic Linguistics, 199-236, 1993 | 38 | 1993 |
