| Case and grammatical functions: The Icelandic passive A Zaenen, J Maling, H Thráinsson Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 3 (4), 441-483, 1985 | 949 | 1985 |
| The syntax of Icelandic H Thráinsson (No Title), 2007 | 746 | 2007 |
| Two heads aren’t always better than one JD Bobaljik, H Thráinsson Syntax 1 (1), 37-71, 1998 | 612 | 1998 |
| On Complementation in Icelandic H Thráinsson Garland, 1979 | 604* | 1979 |
| VP-internal structure and object shift in Icelandic C Collins, H Thráinsson Linguistic inquiry, 391-444, 1996 | 410 | 1996 |
| On the (non-) universality of functional categories H Thráinsson Minimal ideas: Syntactic studies in the minimalist framework, 253-281, 1996 | 368 | 1996 |
| On Icelandic word order once more H Thráinsson Modern Icelandic Syntax, 3-40, 1990 | 288 | 1990 |
| Object shift and scrambling H Thráinsson The handbook of contemporary syntactic theory, 148-202, 2001 | 270 | 2001 |
| On the Phonology of Icelandic Pre-aspiration1 H Thráinsson Nordic Journal of linguistics 1 (1), 3-54, 1978 | 230 | 1978 |
| Reflexives and subjunctives in Icelandic H Thráinsson Sixth Annual Meeting of the North Eastern Linguistics Society 6, 225-239, 1976 | 178 | 1976 |
| Jógvan í Lon Jacobsen, and Zakaris Svabo Hansen. 2004 H Thráinsson, HP Petersen Faroese. An overview and reference grammar, 0 | 173 | |
| Icelandic H Thráinsson The Germanic Languages, 142-189, 2013 | 162 | 2013 |
| Long-distance reflexives and the typology of NPs H Thráinsson Long-distance anaphora, 49-75, 1991 | 162 | 1991 |
| V1, V2, V3 in Icelandic H Thráinsson Verb second phenomena in Germanic languages, 169-174, 1986 | 142 | 1986 |
| Faroese: An overview and reference grammar H Thráinsson, HP Petersen, ZS Hansen Fróðskapur Books, 508-508, 2023 | 140 | 2023 |
| Minimal ideas W Abraham, C Zwart, H Thráinsson, SD Epstein John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1996 | 139 | 1996 |
| Object shift in double object constructions and the theory of Case C Collins, H Thráinsson | 139 | 1993 |
| Prepositions and minimalist case-marking J Rooryck, H Thráinsson, S Epstein, S Peter Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax Volume II, 226-256, 1996 | 119 | 1996 |
| On the structure of infinitival complements H Thráinsson Harvard working papers in linguistics 3, 181-213, 1993 | 104 | 1993 |
| On auxiliaries, AUX and VPs in Icelandic H Thráinsson Topics in Scandinavian syntax, 235-265, 1986 | 91 | 1986 |
