| Gurindji Kriol: A mixed language emerges from code-switching P McConvell, F Meakins Australian journal of linguistics 25 (1), 9-30, 2005 | 239 | 2005 |
| State of Indigenous languages in Australia-2001 P McConvell, N Thieberger Department of the Environment and Heritage, 2001 | 181 | 2001 |
| Gaps in Australia's Indigenous language policy: Dismantling bilingual education in the Northern Territory J Simpson, J Caffery, P McConvell Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), 2009 | 165 | 2009 |
| Mix-im-up: Aboriginal code-switching, old and new P McConvell Codeswitching: Anthropological and sociolinguistic perspectives 48, 97-149, 1988 | 164 | 1988 |
| Backtracking to Babel: the chronology of Pama‐Nyungan expansion in Australia P McConvell Archaeology in Oceania 31 (3), 125-144, 1996 | 130 | 1996 |
| Does lateral transmission obscure inheritance in hunter-gatherer languages? C Bowern, P Epps, R Gray, J Hill, K Hunley, P McConvell, J Zentz PloS one 6 (9), e25195, 2011 | 120 | 2011 |
| The origin of subsections in Northern Australia P McConvell Oceania 56 (1), 1-33, 1985 | 108 | 1985 |
| 7 The enigma ofPama-Nyungan expansion in Australia N Evans, P McConvell | 102 | 1998 |
| Archaeology and linguistics: Aboriginal Australia in global perspective P McConvell, N Evans (No Title), 1997 | 77 | 1997 |
| Understanding language shift: A step towards language maintenance P McConvell Language in Australia, 143-155, 1991 | 77 | 1991 |
| Cultural domain separation: Two-way street or blind alley? Stephen Harris and the neo-Whorfians on Aboriginal education P McConvell Australian Aboriginal Studies, 13-24, 1991 | 62 | 1991 |
| Mixed languages as outcomes of code-switching: Recent examples from Australia and their implications P McConvell Journal of language contact 2 (1), 187-212, 2008 | 61 | 2008 |
| Wanderwörter in languages of the Americas and Australia H Haynie, C Bowern, P Epps, J Hill, P McConvell Ampersand 1, 1-18, 2014 | 59 | 2014 |
| Nasal cluster dissimilation and constraints on phonological variables in Gurindji and related languages P McConvell | 59 | 1988 |
| Neutralisation and degrees of respect in Gurindji P McConvell Languages of kinship in Aboriginal Australia 86, 106, 1982 | 58 | 1982 |
| Domains and codeswitching among bilingual Aborigines P McConvell Australia, meeting place of languages, 1985 | 53 | 1985 |
| Language mixing and language shift in Indigenous Australia P McConvell Children's language and multilingualism: Indigenous language use at home and …, 2008 | 52 | 2008 |
| New genetic and linguistic analyses show ancient human influence on baobab evolution and distribution in Australia H Rangan, KL Bell, DA Baum, R Fowler, P McConvell, T Saunders, ... PloS one 10 (4), e0119758, 2015 | 49 | 2015 |
| Language shift and language spread among hunter-gatherers P McConvell Hunter-gatherers: An interdisciplinary perspective, 143-169, 2001 | 46 | 2001 |
| The functions of split-Wackernagel clitic systems: Pronominal clitics in the Ngumpin languages (Pama-Nyungan family, Northern Australia) P McConvell Approaching second: Second position clitics and related phenomena, 299-331, 1996 | 46 | 1996 |
