| External possession I Barshi, DL Payne External possession, 1-580, 1999 | 444 | 1999 |
| Endangered languages: Current issues and future prospects DL Payne Journal of Linguistics 35 (3), 618-624, 1999 | 250 | 1999 |
| Pragmatics of word order flexibility DL Payne Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility, 1-326, 1992 | 190 | 1992 |
| Information structuring in Papago narrative discourse DL Payne Language, 783-804, 1987 | 186 | 1987 |
| A basic bivariate structure of personality attributes evident across nine languages G Saucier, AG Thalmayer, DL Payne, R Carlson, L Sanogo, ... Journal of Personality 82 (1), 1-14, 2014 | 185 | 2014 |
| Yagua DL Payne, TE Payne International Journal of American Linguistics 84 (S1), S109-S127, 2018 | 184 | 2018 |
| The pragmatics of word order: Typological dimensions of verb initial languages DL Payne Walter de Gruyter, 1990 | 156 | 1990 |
| Amazonian linguistics: Studies in lowland South American languages DL Payne University of Texas Press, 2014 | 150 | 2014 |
| Phonetic correlates of tongue root vowel contrasts in Maa SG Guion, MW Post, DL Payne Journal of Phonetics 32 (4), 517-542, 2004 | 116 | 2004 |
| Noun classification systems of Amazonian languages DC Derbyshire, DL Payne Amazonian linguistics: Studies in lowland South American languages, 243-271, 1990 | 116 | 1990 |
| The tupí-guaraní inverse D Payne Voice: Form and function 27, 313-340, 1994 | 110 | 1994 |
| Morphological characteristics of lowland South American languages DL Payne Amazonian linguistics: studies in lowland South American languages, 213-241, 1990 | 98 | 1990 |
| Aspects of the grammar of Yagua: A typological perspective DL Payne (No Title), 1985 | 70 | 1985 |
| A typological grammar of Panare: A Cariban language of Venezuela TE Payne, DL Payne A Typological Grammar of Panare, 2012 | 62 | 2012 |
| Nominal classification in the North West Amazon: Issues in areal diffusion and typological characterization F Seifart, DL Payne International Journal of American Linguistics 73 (4), 381-387, 2007 | 59 | 2007 |
| Genitive classifiers R Carlson, D Payne Proceedings of the 4th Annual Pacific Linguistics Conference, 87-119, 1989 | 56 | 1989 |
| Noun classification in Yagua DL Payne Noun classes and categorization, 113-131, 1986 | 53 | 1986 |
| Noun classification in the Western Amazon DL Payne Language Sciences 9 (1), 21-44, 1987 | 51 | 1987 |
| Verb initial languages and information order DL Payne Word order in discourse 30, 449, 1995 | 50 | 1995 |
| Personality structure in east and west Africa: Lexical studies of personality in Maa and Supyire-Senufo. AG Thalmayer, G Saucier, L Ole-Kotikash, D Payne Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 119 (5), 1132, 2020 | 48 | 2020 |
