| The course of actualization H De Smet Language, 601-633, 2012 | 230 | 2012 |
| Coming to terms with subjectivity HD Smet, JC Verstraete Walter de Gruyter 17 (3), 365-392, 2006 | 217 | 2006 |
| Analysing reanalysis H De Smet Lingua 119 (11), 1728-1755, 2009 | 213 | 2009 |
| A corpus of Late Modern English Texts H De Smet ICAME Journal, 2005 | 212 | 2005 |
| Spreading patterns: diffusional change in the English system of complementation H De Smet Oxford University Press, 2013 | 168 | 2013 |
| The changing functions of competing forms: Attraction and differentiation HD Smet, F D’hoedt, L Fonteyn, KV Goethem Cognitive Linguistics 29 (2), 197-234, 2018 | 100 | 2018 |
| How gradual change progresses: The interaction between convention and innovation H De Smet Language Variation and Change 28 (1), 83-102, 2016 | 92 | 2016 |
| On multiple source constructions in language change F Van de Velde, H De Smet, L Ghesquière Studies in Language. International Journal sponsored by the Foundation …, 2013 | 87 | 2013 |
| English -ing-clauses and their problems: The structure of grammatical categories H De Smet Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 48 (6), 1153-1193, 2010 | 73 | 2010 |
| Functional motivations in the development of nominal and verbal gerunds in Middle and Early Modern English1 H De Smet English Language & Linguistics 12 (1), 55-102, 2008 | 68 | 2008 |
| The role of analogy in language change: supporting constructions H De Smet, O Fischer The changing English language: Psycholinguistic perspectives, 240-268, 2017 | 66 | 2017 |
| Between subordinate and insubordinate. Paths toward complementizer-initial main clauses MS Sansiñena, H De Smet, B Cornillie Journal of Pragmatics 77, 3-19, 2015 | 56 | 2015 |
| On multiple source constructions in language change H De Smet, F Van de Velde, L Ghesquière John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015 | 50 | 2015 |
| Diachronic aspects of complementation: Constructions, entrenchment and the matching-problem H De Smet, H Cuyckens SHEL, Date: 2004/05/06-2004/05/07, Location: Ann Arbour, MI, 1-37, 2007 | 49 | 2007 |
| A European database of descriptors of English electronic texts HJ Diller, H De Smet, J Tyrkkö The European English Messenger 19, 21-35, 2011 | 48 | 2011 |
| How nouns turn into adjectives: The emergence of new adjectives in French, English and Dutch through debonding processes K Van Goethem, H De Smet Languages in Contrast 14 (2), 251-277, 2014 | 47 | 2014 |
| Does innovation need reanalysis? H De Smet Usage-based approaches to language change, 23-48, 2014 | 44 | 2014 |
| Grammatical interference H De Smet Gradience, Gradualness and Grammaticalization. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 75-104, 2010 | 44 | 2010 |
| Diffusional change in the English system of complementation: gerunds, participles and for... to-infinitives H De Smet Unpublished dissertation. University Leuven, 2008 | 37 | 2008 |
| A brief history of English syntax O Fischer, H De Smet, W van der Wurff Cambridge University Press, 2017 | 36 | 2017 |
