| Contact languages: Ecology and evolution in Asia U Ansaldo Cambridge University Press, 2009 | 286 | 2009 |
| Deconstructing creole U Ansaldo, L Lim, S Matthews John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007 | 129 | 2007 |
| The evolution of Singapore English: Finding the matrix U Ansaldo Singapore English: A grammatical description, 127-150, 2008 | 128 | 2008 |
| The role of typology in language creation: A descriptive take EO Aboh, U Ansaldo Deconstructing creole, 39-66, 2008 | 111 | 2008 |
| The native speaker and the mother tongue N Love, U Ansaldo Language Sciences 32 (6), 589-593, 2010 | 103 | 2010 |
| Languages in Contact UA Lisa Lim Cambridge University Press, 2016 | 101* | 2016 |
| Phonetic absence as syntactic prominence: Grammaticalization in isolating tonal languages U Ansaldo, L Lim Up and down the cline–The nature of grammaticalization, 345-362, 2008 | 80 | 2008 |
| The Asian typology of English: Theoretical and methodological considerations U Ansaldo English World-Wide 30 (2), 133-148, 2009 | 69 | 2009 |
| The sociolinguistic history of the Peranakans: What it tells us about'creolization' U Ansaldo, L Lim, SS Mufwene Deconstructing creole, 203-226, 2008 | 67 | 2008 |
| Typical creoles and simple languages: The case of Sinitic U Ansaldo, SJ Matthews | 67 | 2001 |
| Deconstructing creole: The rationale U Ansaldo, S Matthews Deconstructing creole, 1-18, 2008 | 65 | 2008 |
| Identity alignment and language creation in multilingual communities U Ansaldo Language Sciences 32 (6), 615-623, 2010 | 58 | 2010 |
| Comparative constructions in Sinitic: Areal typology and patterns of grammaticalization U Ansaldo Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University, 1999 | 58 | 1999 |
| Surpass comparatives in Sinitic and beyond: Typology and grammaticalization U Ansaldo Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 48 (4), 919-950, 2010 | 55 | 2010 |
| THE MINNAN SUBSTRATE AND CREOLIZATION IN BABA MALAY/巴巴马来的闽南底层和混合 洪柏陶， 马诗帆 Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 38-68, 1999 | 54 | 1999 |
| Sri Lanka Malay revisited: genesis and classification U Ansaldo Lessons from documented endangered languages, 13-42, 2008 | 51 | 2008 |
| China coast pidgin: Texts and contexts U Ansaldo, S Matthews, G Smith Journal of Pidgin and Creole languages 25 (1), 63-94, 2010 | 50 | 2010 |
| Nouns and noun phrases L Wee, U Ansaldo Singapore English: A grammatical description, 57-74, 2008 | 47 | 2008 |
| Contact and Asian varieties of English U Ansaldo The handbook of language contact, 498-517, 2010 | 45 | 2010 |
| The origins of Macanese reduplication U Ansaldo, S Matthews Creoles, contact, and language change: Linguistic and social implications, 1-19, 2008 | 37 | 2008 |
Stephen MatthewsProfessor in Linguistics, University of Hong KongVerified email at hku.hk
