| The semantics of the future B Copley Routledge, 2009 | 462 | 2009 |
| A force-theoretic framework for event structure B Copley, H Harley Linguistics and Philosophy 38, 103-158, 2015 | 132* | 2015 |
| The plan's the thing: Deconstructing futurate meanings B Copley Linguistic inquiry 39 (2), 261-274, 2008 | 99 | 2008 |
| Theories of causation should inform linguistic theory and vice versa B Copley, P Wolff Causation in grammatical structures 11, 57, 2014 | 80 | 2014 |
| What should" should" mean? B Copley Language Under Uncertainty Workshop, Kyoto University, January 2005, 2006 | 62 | 2006 |
| Causation in grammatical structures B Copley, F Martin Oxford University Press, 2014 | 37 | 2014 |
| Dispositional causation B Copley Glossa: a journal of general linguistics (2016-2021), 2018 | 34 | 2018 |
| Temporal orientation in conditionals B Copley Time and modality, 59-77, 2008 | 32 | 2008 |
| Causal chains for futurates B Copley Future times, future tenses, 72-86, 2014 | 30 | 2014 |
| Eliminating causative entailments with the force-theoretic framework: The case of the Tohono O’odham frustrative cem B Copley, H Harley Causation in grammatical structures, 120-151, 2014 | 30 | 2014 |
| Ordering and reasoning B Copley In Gajewski, Jon, Valentine Hacquard, Bernard Nickel, and Seth Yalcin (eds …, 2005 | 26* | 2005 |
| Aspect, scope, and future conditionals B Copley Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 8, 67-82, 2004 | 22 | 2004 |
| " Be Going To" as a Case of High Aspect B Copley Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 95-113, 2001 | 20 | 2001 |
| Force dynamics B Copley | 18 | 2019 |
| When the actual world isn’t inertial: Tohono O’odham cem B Copley Proceedings of SULA 3, 1-18, 2005 | 18* | 2005 |
| So-called epistemic should B Copley The grammatical and conceptual ingredients of what happens next, 269, 2004 | 18 | 2004 |
| Towards a teleological model for modals B Copley Paris working sessions on modality, goals, and events, 23-24, 2010 | 13 | 2010 |
| A linguistic argument for indeterministic futures B Copley North East Linguistics Society 32 (1), 5, 2002 | 13 | 2002 |
| Futurates, directors, and have causatives B Copley, H Harley Snippets 19 (July), 1, 2009 | 11 | 2009 |
| On the Syntax and Semantics of futurate readings B Copley MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 36, 2000 | 8 | 2000 |
