| Nonmanuals: their grammatical and prosodic roles R Pfau, J Quer na, 2010 | 372* | 2010 |
| Sign language R Pfau De Gruyter Mouton, 2012 | 337 | 2012 |
| Modality-independent and modality-specific aspects of grammaticalization in sign languages R Pfau, M Steinbach Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2006 | 156 | 2006 |
| Pluralization in sign and in speech: A cross-modal typological study R Pfau, M Steinbach Walter de Gruyter 10 (2), 135-182, 2006 | 140 | 2006 |
| The linguistics of sign languages AE Baker, T Schermer, R Pfau, B Bogaerde The Linguistics of Sign Languages, 1-393, 2016 | 135 | 2016 |
| Sign language typology: The contribution of rural sign languages C De Vos, R Pfau Annu. Rev. Linguist. 1 (1), 265-288, 2015 | 126 | 2015 |
| Grammar as processor R Pfau Grammar as Processor, 1-391, 2009 | 117 | 2009 |
| Verb agreement G Mathur, C Rathmann Sign language: An international handbook, 136-157, 2012 | 116 | 2012 |
| Grammaticalization in sign languages R Pfau, M Steinbach | 115 | 2011 |
| Event representations constrain the structure of language: Sign language as a window into universally accessible linguistic biases B Strickland, C Geraci, E Chemla, P Schlenker, M Kelepir, R Pfau Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (19), 5968-5973, 2015 | 113 | 2015 |
| V-to-Neg raising and negative concord in three sign languages P Roland Lisa BRUNETTI Italian Focus and elliptic effects p. 3 João COSTA & Maria …, 2002 | 109 | 2002 |
| Applying morphosyntactic and phonological readjustment rules in natural language negation R Pfau Modality and structure in signed and spoken languages, 263-295, 2002 | 101 | 2002 |
| What’sa wh-word got to do with it EO Aboh, R Pfau Mapping the left periphery: The cartography of syntactic structures 5, 91-124, 2011 | 100 | 2011 |
| Grammaticalization of auxiliaries in sign languages M Steinbach, R Pfau TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS STUDIES AND MONOGRAPHS 188, 303, 2007 | 100 | 2007 |
| On classifying classification as a class of inflection in German Sign Language S Glück, R Pfau Proceedings of ConSole 6 (1), 59-74, 1998 | 93 | 1998 |
| SignGram Blueprint: A guide to sign language grammar writing J Quer, C Cecchetto, C Donati De Gruyter, 2017 | 84 | 2017 |
| Relative clauses in German Sign Language: extraposition and reconstruction R Pfau, M Steinbach PROCEEDINGS-NELS 35 (2), 507, 2005 | 83 | 2005 |
| 16. Coordination and subordination G Tang, P Lau Sign Language, 340-365, 2012 | 82 | 2012 |
| Can't you see the difference? Sources of variation in sign language structure P Perniss, R Pfau, M Steinbach Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs 188, 1, 2007 | 80 | 2007 |
| The syntax of sign language agreement: Common ingredients, but unusual recipe R Pfau, M Salzmann, M Steinbach Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 3 (1), 2018 | 77 | 2018 |
