| The romance languages M Harris, N Vincent Routledge, 2003 | 418 | 2003 |
| The development of the auxiliaries habere and esse in Romance N Vincent Studies in the Romance verb, 71-96, 1982 | 238 | 1982 |
| Directionality and word order change in the history of English I Roberts Diachronic and Comparative Syntax, 104-138, 2018 | 216 | 2018 |
| The emergence of the D-system in Romance N Vincent Parameters of morphosyntactic change, 149-169, 1997 | 163 | 1997 |
| Italian N Vincent The Romance Languages, 279-313, 2003 | 158 | 2003 |
| Paradigms, periphrases and pronominal inflection: a feature-based account K Börjars, N Vincent, C Chapman Yearbook of morphology 1996, 155-180, 1996 | 142 | 1996 |
| Latin N Vincent The Romance Languages, 26-78, 2003 | 136 | 2003 |
| The evolution of c-structure: prepositions and PPs from Indo-European to Romance N Vincent Walter de Gruyter 37 (6), 1111-1153, 1999 | 127 | 1999 |
| Parameters of morphosyntactic change A Van Kemenade, N Vincent Cambridge University Press, 1997 | 120 | 1997 |
| Exaptation and grammaticalization N Vincent AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE SERIES 4 …, 1995 | 105 | 1995 |
| Is sound change teleological N Vincent Recent developments in historical phonology 4, 409, 1978 | 78 | 1978 |
| On the grammar of inflected non-finite forms (with special reference to Old Neapolitan) N Vincent Copenhagen studies in language 22, 135-158, 1998 | 77 | 1998 |
| Analogy reconsidered N Vincent North-Holland; New York, 1974 | 75 | 1974 |
| Linguistic areas: convergence in historical and typological perspective Y Matras, AMS McMahon, N Vincent Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 | 64 | 2006 |
| Grammaticalization and directionality K Börjars, N Vincent | 59 | 2011 |
| On constructing a theory of grammatical change K Börjars, N Vincent, G Walkden | 58 | 2015 |
| The interaction of periphrasis and inflection: Some Romance examples N Vincent Historical development of auxiliaries. Berlin, New York, Amsterdam, Mouton …, 1987 | 58 | 1987 |
| Non-linear phonology in diachronic perspective; stress and word structure in Latin and Italian N Vincent Certamen phonologicum, 421-432, 1988 | 54 | 1988 |
| Growing syntax: The development of a DP in North Germanic K Börjars, P Harries, N Vincent Language 92 (1), e1-e37, 2016 | 53 | 2016 |
| Iconic and symbolic aspects of syntax: prospects for reconstruction N Vincent Linguistic reconstruction and Indo-European syntax. Amsterdam: John …, 1980 | 49 | 1980 |
