| Contact languages: Ecology and evolution in Asia U Ansaldo Cambridge University Press, 2009 | 266 | 2009 |
| The evolution of Singapore English: Finding the matrix U Ansaldo Amsterdam/PhiladelphiaJohn Benjamins, 2004 | 132 | 2004 |
| Deconstructing creole U Ansaldo, L Lim, S Matthews Deconstructing Creole, 1-304, 2007 | 126 | 2007 |
| The role of typology in language creation EO Aboh, U Ansaldo Deconstructing creole, 39-66, 2006 | 106 | 2006 |
| The native speaker and the mother tongue N Love, U Ansaldo Language Sciences 32 (6), 589-593, 2010 | 96 | 2010 |
| Languages in Contact UA Lisa Lim Cambridge University Press, 2016 | 86* | 2016 |
| Phonetic absence as syntactic prominence U Ansaldo, L Lim Fischer, O, 2004 | 74 | 2004 |
| Deconstructing creole: The rationale U Ansaldo, S Matthews Typological Studies in Language 73, 1, 2007 | 72 | 2007 |
| Typical creoles and simple languages: The case of Sinitic U Ansaldo, SJ Matthews Linguistic typology, 2001 | 69 | 2001 |
| The Asian typology of English: Theoretical and methodological considerations U Ansaldo English World-Wide 30 (2), 133-148, 2009 | 66 | 2009 |
| The sociolinguistic history of the Peranakans U Ansaldo, L Lim, S Mufwene Deconstructing creole, 203-226, 2007 | 65 | 2007 |
| 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 | 56 | 1999 |
| The Minnan substrate and creolization in Baba Malay U Ansaldo, S Matthews Journal of Chinese Linguistics 27 (1), 38-68, 1999 | 55 | 1999 |
| Surpass comparatives in Sinitic and beyond: typology and grammaticalization U Ansaldo Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 48 (4), 919-950, 2010 | 51 | 2010 |
| Sri Lanka Malay revisited U Ansaldo Lessons from documented endangered languages 78, 13, 2008 | 50 | 2008 |
| Contact and Asian varieties of English U Ansaldo The handbook of language contact, 498-517, 2010 | 44 | 2010 |
| 3. Nouns and noun phrases L Wee, U Ansaldo Singapore English, 57, 2004 | 43 | 2004 |
| China coast pidgin: Texts and contexts U Ansaldo, S Matthews, G Smith Journal of Pidgin and Creole languages 25 (1), 63-94, 2010 | 39 | 2010 |
| The origins of Macanese reduplication U Ansaldo, S Matthews CREOLE LANGUAGE LIBRARY 27, 1-20, 2004 | 34 | 2004 |
Stephen MatthewsProfessor in Linguistics, University of Hong KongVerified email at hku.hk
