| Cognitive linguistics W Croft, DA Cruse Cambridge University Press, 2004 | 8914 | 2004 |
| Radical construction grammar: Syntactic theory in typological perspective W Croft OUP Oxford, 2001 | 7162 | 2001 |
| Typology and universals W Croft Cambridge University Press, 2003 | 6071 | 2003 |
| Explaining language change: An evolutionary approach W Croft Pearson Education, 2000 | 3215 | 2000 |
| The role of domains in the interpretation of metaphors and metonymies W Croft Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York 4 (4), 335-370, 1993 | 1450 | 1993 |
| Semantic theory RM Kempson Cambridge University Press, 1977 | 1312 | 1977 |
| Language is a complex adaptive system: Position paper “Five Graces Group”, C Beckner, R Blythe, J Bybee, MH Christiansen, ... Language learning 59, 1-26, 2009 | 1276 | 2009 |
| Verbs: Aspect and causal structure W Croft OUP Oxford, 2012 | 1085 | 2012 |
| Corpus-based approaches to metaphor and metonymy W Bisang, HH Hock, W Winter, A Stefanowitsch, ST Gries Mouton de Gruyter, 2006 | 922 | 2006 |
| Domains and image schemas TC Clausner, W Croft Cognitive linguistics 10, 1-32, 1999 | 777 | 1999 |
| Revising Talmy’s typological classification of complex event constructions WA Croft, J Barðdal, WB Hollmann, V Sotirova, C Taoka Contrastive studies in construction grammar, 201-236, 2010 | 443 | 2010 |
| Toward a social cognitive linguistics WA Croft New directions in cognitive linguistics, 395-420, 2009 | 422 | 2009 |
| Lexical rules vs. constructions: A false dichotomy WA Croft Motivation in language: Studies in honor of Günter Radden, 49-68, 2011 | 408 | 2011 |
| Phonological development: Toward a “radical” templatic phonology M Vihman, W Croft De Gruyter Mouton 45 (4), 683-725, 2007 | 407 | 2007 |
| Case marking and the semantics of mental verbs W Croft Semantics and the Lexicon, 55-72, 1993 | 394 | 1993 |
| Autonomy and functionalist linguistics W Croft Language, 490-532, 1995 | 389 | 1995 |
| Parts of speech as language universals and as language-particular categories W Croft Empirical approaches to language typology, 65-102, 2000 | 387 | 2000 |
| The evolution of negation W Croft Journal of linguistics 27 (1), 1-27, 1991 | 370 | 1991 |
| Event structure in argument linking W Croft The projection of arguments: Lexical and compositional factors 2163, 1998 | 369 | 1998 |
| Semantic universals in classifier systems W Croft Word 45 (2), 145-171, 1994 | 363 | 1994 |
