Top Ten Field Defining Papers for Generative Syntax

Which works define the field of generative syntax?

The following list is the set of the top ten books, theses, book chapters and journal articles in generative syntax ordered in terms of total citations from Google Scholar. I have left out the following:

a. Works by Noam Chomsky, which have much higher citation rates than the works below.

b. Textbooks.

c. Edited books containing different authors.

d. Works in adjacent subdisciplines, such as semantics or phonology.

Summary:

I would roughly divide these into three classes:

A. Classic

Ross 1967

B. Argument Structure

Fillmore 1968, Levin 1993, Baker 1988, Grimshaw 1990

C. Cartography

Kayne 1994, Rizzi 1997, Abney 1987, Cinque 1999, Pollock 1989

1. Citations: 12,843

Fillmore, Charles J. 1968. The Case for Case. In Emmon Back and Robert T. Harms (eds.), Universals in Linguistic Theory, 1-88. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York.

2. Citations: 10,610

Kayne, Richard. 1994. The Antisymmetry of Syntax. MIT Press, Cambridge.

3. Citations: 10,253

Rizzi, Luigi. 1997. The Fine Structure of the Left Periphery. In Liliane Haegeman (ed.), Elements of Grammar: Handbook of Generative Syntax. Springer.

4. Citations: 10,199

Levin, Beth. 1993. English Verb Classes and Alternations: A Preliminary Investigation. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

5. Citations: 9,244

Ross, John Robert. 1967. Constraints on Variables in Syntax. Doctoral dissertation, MIT. Cambridge.

6. Citations: 9,242

Baker, Mark. 1988. Incorporation: A Theory of Grammatical Function Changing. Chicago University Press, Chicago.

7. Citations: 8,018

Abney, Steven. 1987. The English Noun Phrase in its Sentential Aspect. Doctoral dissertation, MIT. Cambridge.

8. Citations: 7,910

Cinque, Guglielmo. 1999. Adverbs and Functional Heads: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

9. Citations: 7,204

Pollock, Jean-Yves. 1989. Verb Movement, Universal Grammar and the Structure of IP. Linguistic Inquiry 20, 366-424.

10. Citations: 6,962

Grimshaw, Jane. 1990. Argument Structure. MIT Press, Cambridge.