| Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics SG Thomason, T Kaufman Univ of California Press, 2023 | 10496* | 2023 |
| Contact explanations in linguistics S Thomason The handbook of language contact, 31-49, 2020 | 306 | 2020 |
| Contact as a source of language change SG Thomason The handbook of historical linguistics, 687-712, 2017 | 278 | 2017 |
| Contact languages: A wider perspective SG Thomason John Benjamins Publishing, 1997 | 256 | 1997 |
| Social and linguistic factors as predictors of contact-induced change S Thomason Journal of language contact 2 (1), 42-56, 2008 | 227 | 2008 |
| Language contact and deliberate change S Thomason Journal of language contact 1 (1), 41-62, 2007 | 210 | 2007 |
| A typology of contact languages SG Thomason Creole Language Library 19, 71-90, 1997 | 197 | 1997 |
| Endangered languages: An introduction SG Thomason Cambridge University Press, 2015 | 176 | 2015 |
| Social factors and linguistic processes in the emergence of stable mixed languages SG Thomason na, 2003 | 127 | 2003 |
| Linguistic areas and language history SG Thomason Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics 28, 311-327, 2000 | 118 | 2000 |
| Pronoun borrowing SG Thomason, DL Everett Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 301-316, 2001 | 105 | 2001 |
| Chinook Jargon in areal and historical context SG Thomason Language, 820-870, 1983 | 105 | 1983 |
| Phonetic structures of Montana Salish E Flemming, P Ladefoged, S Thomason Journal of Phonetics 36 (3), 465-491, 2008 | 101 | 2008 |
| On mechanisms of interference SG Thomason TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS STUDIES AND MONOGRAPHS 100, 181-208, 1997 | 93 | 1997 |
| Language mixture: Ordinary processes, extraordinary results SG Thomason Spanish in four continents: Studies in language contact and bilingualism, 15-33, 1995 | 93 | 1995 |
| Contact-induced typological change SG Thomason Language typology and language universals/Sprachtypologie und sprachliche …, 2001 | 88 | 2001 |
| On the unpredictability of contact effects SG Thomason Estudios de sociolingüistíca 1 (1), 173-182, 2000 | 76 | 2000 |
| Genetic relationship and the case of Ma'a Mbugu SG Thomason Studies in African Linguistics 14 (2), 195-232, 1983 | 70 | 1983 |
| Language change and language contact SG Thomason Encyclopedia of language and linguistics 6 (2), 339-346, 2006 | 66 | 2006 |
| Mednyj Aleut SG Thomason Creole language library 17, 449-468, 1996 | 65 | 1996 |
