| A relevance theory perspective on grammaticalization S Nicolle Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York 9 (1), 1-36, 1998 | 168 | 1998 |
| Experimental pragmatics and what is said: A response to Gibbs and Moise S Nicolle, B Clark Cognition 69 (3), 337-354, 1999 | 158 | 1999 |
| A relevance-theoretic account of be going to S Nicolle Journal of Linguistics 33 (2), 355-377, 1997 | 78 | 1997 |
| The grammaticalization of tense markers: A pragmatic reanalysis S Nicolle Tense, Mood and Aspect, 47-65, 2007 | 64 | 2007 |
| Pragmatic aspects of grammaticalization S Nicolle The Oxford handbook of grammaticalization, 401-412, 2011 | 62 | 2011 |
| A grammar of Digo: A Bantu language of Kenya and Tanzania S Nicolle SIL International, 2013 | 47 | 2013 |
| Be going to and will: a monosemous account1 S Nicolle English Language & Linguistics 2 (2), 223-244, 1998 | 45 | 1998 |
| Conceptual and procedural encoding: Criteria for the identification of linguistically encoded procedural information S Nicolle Proceedings of the University of Hertfordshire relevance theory workshop 45, 56, 1997 | 43 | 1997 |
| Diachrony and grammaticalization S Nicolle The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect, 370-397, 2012 | 36 | 2012 |
| Phatic interpretations: standarisation and conventionalisation S Nicolle, B Clark Revista alicantina de estudios ingleses, No. 11 (Nov. 1998); pp. 183-191, 1998 | 32 | 1998 |
| Conditional constructions in African languages S Nicolle Studies in African Linguistics, 1-15, 2017 | 22 | 2017 |
| Comparative study of Eastern Bantu narrative texts S Nicolle SIL International, 2015 | 21 | 2015 |
| Communicated and non-communicated acts in relevance theory S Nicolle Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics …, 2000 | 21 | 2000 |
| Go-and-V, come-and-V, go-V and come-V: A corpus-based account of deictic movement verb constructions S Nicolle English Text Construction 2 (2), 185-208, 2009 | 20 | 2009 |
| Semantic-pragmatic change in Bantu-no demonstrative forms S Nicolle Africana Linguistica 18, 193-233, 2012 | 18 | 2012 |
| Mgombato: Digo-English-Swahili Dictionary J Mwalonya, A Nicolle, S Nicolle, J Zimbu BTL (East Africa), 2004 | 16 | 2004 |
| Distal aspects in Bantu languages S Nicolle K. Jaszcolt & K. Turner (eds.) Meaning Through Language Contrast 2, 3-22, 2003 | 16 | 2003 |
| The grammaticalisation of movement verbs in Digo and English S Nicolle Revue de sémantique et pragmatique 11, 47-67, 2002 | 14 | 2002 |
| Discourse functions of demonstratives in Eastern Bantu narrative texts S Nicolle Studies in African Linguistics 43 (2), 113-132, 2014 | 13 | 2014 |
| Digo narrative discourse S Nicolle SIL Language and Culture Documentation and Description 26, 2015 | 12 | 2015 |
