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Fabb, Nigel (2012) Poetic form as meaning in Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Journal of Literary Semantics, 41 (2). pp. 105-119. ISSN 0341-7638

Fabb, Nigel and Halle, Morris (2012) Counting in metrical verse. In: Cognitive literary studies. University of Texas Press, Austin, pp. 163-182. ISBN 978-0-292-73558-3

Fabb, Nigel and Halle, Morris (2012) Dylan Thomas's meters. In: Of Grammar, Words, and Verses. Language Faculty and Beyond . John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, pp. 67-86. ISBN 978 90 272 0825 5

Halle, Morris and Fabb, Nigel (2011) Grouping in the stressing of words, in metrical verse, and in music. In: Language and Music as Cognitive Systems. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 4-21. ISBN 978-0-19-955342-6

Fabb, Nigel (2011) Art, languages of. In: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. Cambridge University Press, New York, pp. 106-108. ISBN 9780521866897

Fabb, Nigel and Halle, Morris (2011) Meter. In: The cambridge encyclopedia of the language sciences. Cambridge University Press, New York, pp. 495-497. ISBN 9780521866897

Fabb, Nigel (2011) Poetic form, universals of. In: The Cambridge encyclopedia of the language sciences. Cambridge University Press, New York, pp. 624-627. ISBN 9780521866897

Fabb, Nigel (2011) Spirit possession in Ma’di culture. In: Narrating Our Future. Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society, Cape Town, pp. 120-145. ISBN 978-1-920287-09-2

Fabb, Nigel (2011) Verse Line. In: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. Cambridge University Press, New York, pp. 908-909. ISBN 978-0-521-86689-7

Fabb, Nigel and Versace, Stefano (2011) A database as a method of raising typological questions about poetic form. In: Proceedings of conference on language documentation & linguistic theory 3. School of Oriental and African Studies, London, pp. 289-296. ISBN 9780728603981

Fabb, Nigel (2010) The non-linguistic in poetic language. A generative approach. Journal of Literary Theory, 4 (1). pp. 1-18. ISSN 1862-5290

Fabb, Nigel (2010) Is literary language a development of ordinary language? Lingua, 120 (5). pp. 1219-1232. ISSN 0024-3841

Fabb, Nigel and Halle, Morris (2009) Pairs and triplets : A theory of metrical verse. In: Towards a typology of poetic forms. John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, pp. 167-192. ISBN 9027208190

Fabb, Nigel (2009) Why is verse poetry? In: Poetry Nation Review. Carcanet Press, pp. 52-57. ISBN 1 847770 28 2

Fabb, Nigel (2009) Teaching & Learning Guide for: Linguistics in the Study and Teaching of Literature. Language and Linguistics Compass, 3 (5). pp. 1349-1356. ISSN 1749-818X

Fabb, Nigel (2009) Symmetric and asymmetric relations, and the aesthetics of form in poetic language. European English Messenger, 18 (1). pp. 50-59. ISSN 0960 4545

Fabb, Nigel (2009) Formal interactions in poetic meter. In: Versatility in Versification: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Metrics. Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics, 74 . Peter Lang, New York, pp. 147-165. ISBN 9781433105784

Fabb, Nigel (2008) Linguistics in the Study and Teaching of Literature. Language and Linguistics Compass, 2 (6). pp. 1135-1147. ISSN 1749-818X

Fabb, Nigel and Halle, Morris (2008) Meter in poetry: A new theory. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 978-0-521-88564-5

Fabb, Nigel and Furniss, Thomas and Durant, Alan and Montgomery, Martin and Mills, Sara (2007) Ways of Reading : Advanced Reading Skills for Students of English Literature. Routledge, London. ISBN 978-0-415-34634-4

Fabb, Nigel (2006) Generated metrical form and implied metrical form. In: Formal Approaches to Poetry. Phonology and Phonetics . Mouton De Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 77-91. ISBN 978-3-11-018522-5

Fabb, Nigel (2006) Linguistics: Approaches. In: Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier, pp. 240-245. ISBN 0-08-044299-4

Fabb, N.A.J. and Halle, M. (2006) Metrical Complexity in Christina Rossetti's Verse. College Literature, 33 (2). pp. 91-114. ISSN 0093-3139

Fabb, Nigel and Halle, Morris (2006) Telling the numbers : a unified account of syllabo-tonic English and syllabic Polish and French verse. Research in Language, 4. pp. 5-30. ISSN 1731-7533

Fabb, Nigel and Hutchison, Ian (2005) And Rimmain yoor obeddeend omble zervand : the invented spelling system of William Baillie of Dunain (1789-1869). Transactions of the Philological Society, 103 (3). pp. 323-338. ISSN 0079-1636

Fabb, Nigel and Durant, Alan (2005) How to Write Essays and Dissertations : A guide for English literature students. Pearson Education, Harlow. ISBN 9780582784550

Fabb, Nigel (2005) Sentence Structure. Language Workbooks (2nd). Routledge, London. ISBN 978-0-415-34182-0

Fabb, Nigel (2004) Form as fiction. Belgian Journal of English Language and Literature, New serie (2). pp. 63-73.

Fabb, N. (2004) Review of Ian MacKenzie paradigms of reading: relevance theory and deconstruction. [Review]

Blackings, Mairi and Fabb, Nigel (2003) A grammar of Ma'di. Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] . Mouton De Gruyter, Berlin. ISBN 9783110179408

Fabb, Nigel (2003) Metrical rules and the notion of ‘maximum’ : a reply to Derek Attridge. Language and Literature, 12 (1). pp. 73-80. ISSN 0963-9470

Fabb, Nigel (2002) Complex implied form, leisure pursuits, and cultural studies. In: Changing Philologies. Museum Tusculanum Press, pp. 105-120. ISBN 87 7289 790 2

Fabb, Nigel (2002) Language and literary structure : the linguistic analysis of form in verse and narrative. Cambridge University Press, UK. ISBN 9780521792943

Fabb, Nigel A.J. (2002) The metres of 'Dover Beach'. Language and Literature, 11 (2). pp. 99-117. ISSN 0963-9470

Fabb, N. (2001) Weak monosyllables in iambic verse and the communication of metrical form. Lingua, 111 (11). pp. 771-790. ISSN 0024-3841

Fabb, Nigel (2001) Language and literature. In: International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences. Elsevier, pp. 8282-8287. ISBN 0080430767

Fabb, Nigel (2000) Linguistics and literature. In: The Handbook of Linguistics. Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics . Blackwell, Malden MA, pp. 446-465. ISBN 978-1405102520

Montgomery, Martin and Durant, Alan and Mills, Sara and Fabb, Nigel and Furniss, Thomas (2000) Ways of Reading : Advanced reading skills for students of English literature. Routledge, London. ISBN 0415222060

Fabb, Nigel (1999) Relative clauses. In: Concise Encyclopedia of Grammatical Categories. Elsevier, pp. 319-323. ISBN 008043164X

Fabb, Nigel (1999) Verse constituency and the locality of alliteration. Lingua, 108 (4). pp. 223-245. ISSN 0024-3841

Fabb, Nigel (1998) Compounding. In: The Handbook of Morphology. Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 66-83. ISBN 0-631-18544-5

Fabb, Nigel (1997) Linguistics and literature : language in the verbal arts of the world. Blackwell, Oxford. ISBN 0631192433

Fabb, Nigel (1995) The density of response : a problem for literary criticism and cognitive science. In: Linguistic Approaches to Literature. English Language Research, Birmingham, pp. 143-157. ISBN 0 7044 1581 X

Fabb, Nigel (1994) Sentence Structure. Routledge, London. ISBN 0-415-08569-1

Fabb, Nigel and Durant, Alan (1993) How to write essays, dissertations and theses in literary studies. Longman, Harlow. ISBN 0-582-08977-8

Fabb, Nigel and Furniss, Thomas and Montgomery, Martin and Mills, Sara and Durant, Alan (1992) Ways of Reading : Advanced reading skills for students of English literature. Routledge, London. ISBN 0-415-05320-X

Fabb, Nigel (1992) Reduplication and object movement in Ewe and Fon. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 13 (1). pp. 1-40.

Fabb, Nigel (1992) Things to make and do : some new ways of teaching undergraduate literature. In: Channels of Communication. University of Glasgow, pp. 203-212. ISBN 0-85-261335-0

Fabb, Nigel (1992) The licensing of Fon verbs. Journal of West African Languages, 21. pp. 1-9.

Fabb, Nigel (1990) The language of signs. In: The Guinness Encyclopedia. Guinness World Records Limited, pp. 610-611. ISBN 9780851123134

Fabb, Nigel and Durant, Alan (1990) Literary Studies in Action. Interface . Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-02945-2

Fabb, Nigel (1990) The difference between English restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses. Journal of Linguistics, 26 (1). pp. 57-77. ISSN 0022-2267

Fabb, Nigel (1988) English suffixation is constrained only by selectional restrictions. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 6 (4). pp. 527-539.

Fabb, Nigel (1988) Saussure and literary theory : from the perspective of linguistics. Critical Quarterly, 30 (2). pp. 58-72. ISSN 0011-1562

MacCabe, Colin and Fabb, Nigel and Attridge, Derek and Durant, Alan, eds. (1988) The Linguistics of Writing : Arguments between Language and Literature. Routledge, Manchester. ISBN 0416018513

Fabb, Nigel (1988) Doing affixation in the GB syntax. In: Morphology and Modularity. Publications in language sciences . Foris Publications, Dordrecht, pp. 129-145. ISBN 90-6765-394-2

Fabb, Nigel (1987) Dreaming Shakespeare : locating Gregory's Girl. Critical Quarterly, 29 (2). pp. 100-107. ISSN 0011-1562

Fabb, Nigel and Durant, Alan (1987) Ten years on in the linguistics of writing. Prose Studies, 10 (1). pp. 51-71. ISSN 0144-0357

Fabb, Nigel (1983) Linguistics for 10-year olds. In: MIT working papers in linguistics. MIT linguistics department, pp. 45-61.