| Change in contemporary English: A grammatical study GN Leech, M Hundt, C Mair, N Smith Cambridge University Press, 2009 | 1123 | 2009 |
| Corpus linguistics with BNCweb: A practical guide S Hoffmann, S Evert, N Smith, D Lee, Y Berglund-Prytz | 357 | 2008 |
| Changes in the modals and semi-modals of strong obligation and epistemic necessity in recent British English N Smith Topics in English linguistics 44, 241-266, 2003 | 198 | 2003 |
| Tagging the Bard: Evaluating the accuracy of a modern POS tagger on Early Modern English corpora P Rayson, DE Archer, A Baron, J Culpeper, N Smith Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics conference: CL2007, 2007 | 117 | 2007 |
| The present perfect in British and American English: Has there been any change, recently M Hundt, N Smith ICAME journal 33 (1), 45-64, 2009 | 112 | 2009 |
| Recent grammatical change in written English 1961-1992: some preliminary findings of a comparison of American with British English G Leech, N Smith The changing face of corpus linguistics, 185-204, 2006 | 108 | 2006 |
| Extending the possibilities of corpus-based research on English in the twentieth century: A prequel to LOB and FLOB G Leech, N Smith ICAME Journal 29, 83-98, 2005 | 88 | 2005 |
| Short term diachronic shifts in part-of-speech frequencies: a comparison of the tagged LOB and F-LOB corpora C Mair, M Hundt, GN Leech, N Smith International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 7 (2), 245-264, 2002 | 85 | 2002 |
| VARD versus WORD: A comparison of the UCREL variant detector and modern spellcheckers on English historical corpora P Rayson, D Archer, N Smith Corpus Linguistics 2005, 2005 | 78* | 2005 |
| Ever moving on? The progressive in recent British English. N Smith New frontiers of corpus research, 317-330, 2002 | 76 | 2002 |
| Manual to accompany the British National Corpus (Version 2) with improved word-class tagging G Leech, N Smith Lancaster, England: Lancaster University, 2000 | 72 | 2000 |
| Corpus tools and methods, today and tomorrow: Incorporating linguists’ manual annotations N Smith, S Hoffmann, P Rayson Literary and Linguistic Computing 23 (2), 163-180, 2008 | 65 | 2008 |
| Change and constancy in linguistic change: How grammatical usage in written English evolved in the period 1931-1991 G Leech, N Smith Corpus Linguistics: Refinements and Reassessments, 173-200, 2009 | 62 | 2009 |
| Verb structures in twentieth-century British English N Smith, G Leech The verb phrase in English: Investigating recent language change with …, 2013 | 47 | 2013 |
| A corpus-based investigation of recent change in the use of the progressive in British English N Smith Lancaster University, 2005 | 38 | 2005 |
| Recent change and variation in the British English use of the progressive passive N Smith, P Rayson ICAME Journal 31, 129-159, 2007 | 35 | 2007 |
| Tagging historical corpora-the problem of spelling variation P Rayson, D Archer, A Baron, N Smith Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, 2007 | 35 | 2007 |
| Issues in Transcribing a Corpus of Children's Hanwritten Projects N Smith, T McEnery Literary and linguistic computing 13 (4), 217-225, 1998 | 31 | 1998 |
| Manual of information for the part-of-speech-tagged, post-edited ‘Brown’corpora L Hinrichs, N Smith, B Waibel ICAME Journal 34, 189-231, 2010 | 24 | 2010 |
| A quirky progressive? A corpus-based exploration of the will+ be+-ing construction in recent and present day British English N Smith Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics 2003 Conference 16, 714-723, 2003 | 20 | 2003 |
