| Syntax at the edge: Cross-clausal phenomena and the syntax of Passamaquoddy B Bruening Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001 | 448 | 2001 |
| QR obeys Superiority: Frozen scope and ACD B Bruening Linguistic inquiry 32 (2), 233-273, 2001 | 437 | 2001 |
| By Phrases in Passives and Nominals B Bruening Syntax 16 (1), 1-41, 2013 | 418 | 2013 |
| Ditransitive asymmetries and a theory of idiom formation B Bruening Linguistic inquiry 41 (4), 519-562, 2010 | 275 | 2010 |
| Word formation is syntactic: Adjectival passives in English B Bruening Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 32, 363-422, 2014 | 228 | 2014 |
| Precede-and-command revisited B Bruening Language, 342-388, 2014 | 184 | 2014 |
| Double object constructions disguised as prepositional datives B Bruening Linguistic inquiry 41 (2), 287-305, 2010 | 179 | 2010 |
| Affected experiencers S Bosse, B Bruening, M Yamada Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 30, 1185-1230, 2012 | 150 | 2012 |
| University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics B Bruening | 122 | 2009 |
| Wh-in-Situ Does Not Correlate with Wh-Indefinites or Question Particles B Bruening Linguistic Inquiry 38 (1), 139-166, 2007 | 108 | 2007 |
| The lexicalist hypothesis: Both wrong and superfluous B Bruening Language, 1-42, 2018 | 98 | 2018 |
| Raising to object and proper movement B Bruening ms., University of Delaware, 2001 | 84 | 2001 |
| Wh-questions in Vietnamese B Bruening, T Tran Journal of East Asian Linguistics 15 (4), 319-341, 2006 | 78 | 2006 |
| Differences between the Wh-Scope-Marking and Wh-Copy Constructions in Passamaquoddy B Bruening Linguistic Inquiry 37 (1), 25-49, 2006 | 78 | 2006 |
| The Algonquian inverse is syntactic: Binding in Passamaquoddy B Bruening Manuscript, University of Delaware, 2005 | 77 | 2005 |
| Language-particular syntactic rules and constraints: English locative inversion and do-support B Bruening Language, 43-84, 2010 | 71 | 2010 |
| Defects of defective intervention B Bruening Linguistic Inquiry 45 (4), 707-719, 2014 | 70 | 2014 |
| Selection, idioms, and the structure of nominal phrases with and without classifiers B Bruening, X Dinh, L Kim Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 3 (1), 2018 | 68 | 2018 |
| No argument–adjunct asymmetry in reconstruction for Binding Condition C B Bruening, E Al Khalaf Journal of Linguistics 55 (2), 247-276, 2019 | 59 | 2019 |
| Two types of wh-scope marking in Passamaquoddy B Bruening Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 22 (2), 229-305, 2004 | 54 | 2004 |
