| Semantic relations and the lexicon: antonymy, synonymy and other paradigms ML Murphy Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003 | 1263* | 2003 |
| Lexical meaning ML Murphy Cambridge University Press, 2010 | 505* | 2010 |
| Antonyms in English: Construals, constructions and canonicity S Jones, ML Murphy, C Paradis, C Willners Cambridge University Press, 2012 | 221* | 2012 |
| Using corpora to investigate antonym acquisition S Jones, ML Murphy International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 10 (3), 401-422, 2005 | 108 | 2005 |
| Key terms in semantics ML Murphy, A Koskela A&C Black, 2010 | 101 | 2010 |
| Antonyms in children's and child-directed speech ML Murphy, S Jones First language 28 (4), 403-430, 2008 | 98 | 2008 |
| Googling for ‘opposites’: A web-based study of antonym canonicity S Jones, C Paradis, ML Murphy, C Willners Corpora 2 (2), 129-155, 2007 | 94 | 2007 |
| Discourse functions of antonymy: a cross-linguistic investigation of Swedish and English ML Murphy, C Paradis, C Willners, S Jones Journal of pragmatics 41 (11), 2159-2184, 2009 | 90 | 2009 |
| Antonyms as lexical constructions: or, why paradigmatic construction is not an oxymoron ML Murphy Constructions, 2006 | 88 | 2006 |
| Routine politeness in American and British English requests: use and non-use of please ML Murphy, RD Felice Journal of Politeness Research 15 (1), 77-100, 2019 | 42 | 2019 |
| The elusive bisexual: Social categorization and lexico-semantic change ML Murphy Queerly phrased: Language, gender, and sexuality, 35-57, 1997 | 42 | 1997 |
| What We Talk About When We Talk About Synonyms: (and What it Can Tell Us About Thesauruses) ML Murphy International Journal of Lexicography 26 (3), 279-304, 2013 | 40 | 2013 |
| The prodigal tongue: The love-hate relationship between American and British English L Murphy Penguin, 2018 | 35 | 2018 |
| Polysemy and homonymy A Koskela, ML Murphy Elsevier, 2006 | 31 | 2006 |
| Knowledge of words versus knowledge about words: The conceptual basis of lexical relations ML Murphy The lexicon-encyclopedia interface, 317-348, 2000 | 24 | 2000 |
| Defining people: race and ethnicity in South African English dictionaries ML Murphy International Journal of Lexicography 11 (1), 1-33, 1998 | 21 | 1998 |
| Hyponymy and hyperonymy ML Murphy Elsevier, 2006 | 20 | 2006 |
| Antonymy and incompatibility ML Murphy Elsevier, 2006 | 18 | 2006 |
| Defining racial labels: Problems and promise in American dictionaries ML Murphy Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 13 (1), 43-64, 1991 | 17 | 1991 |
| Meaning relations in dictionaries: Hyponymy, meronymy, synonymy, antonymy, and contrast ML Murphy | 16 | 2015 |
