Reading List for the Preliminary Examination
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Advance reading
Mikael Parkvall. (2008) Limits of Language: Almost everything you didn't know about language and languages. Battlebridge, London
*Jean Aitchison (2011) The articulate mammal : an introduction to psycholinguistics, Routledge Classics, London
*Steven Pinker (2007) The language instinct : [how the mind creates language], Penguin Science, London. Also in Kindle and Audio CD.
General textbooks
Martin Atkinson, David Kilby, Iggy Roca (1988), Foundations of general linguistics, Unwin Hyman, London
Akmajian, Adrian (2010), Linguistics : an introduction to language and communication, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, Nina Hyams (2010), An introduction to language, Thomson/Heinle, Boston, Mass
Radford, Andrew, Martin Atkinson, David Britain, Harald Clahsen, Andrew Spencer (2009), Linguistics : an introduction, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
More specific works
Jean Aitchison ( 2002 - new edition imminent), Words in the mind : an introduction to the mental lexicon, Blackwell, Oxford
*Laurie Bauer ( 2003), Introducing linguistic morphology, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh
John Clark and Colin Yallop (2006), An introduction to phonetics and phonology, Blackwell textbooks in linguistics ; Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford
Alan Cruse ( 2010), Meaning in language : an introduction to semantics and pragmatics, Oxford textbooks in linguistics Oxford University Press, Oxford
*Michael Ashby and John Maidment ( 2005), Introducing phonetic science, Cambridge introductions to language and linguistics Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
David Caplan (1996), Language : structure, processing, and disorders, Issues in the biology of language and cognition MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass ;
International Phonetic Association (1999), Handbook of the International Phonetic Association :a guide to the use of the international phonetic alphabet, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Paul R. Kroeger (2005), Analyzing grammar : an introduction, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
John Lyons (1995), Linguistic semantics : an introduction, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
April M.S. McMahon (1994), Understanding language change, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Miriam Meyerhoff (2011), Introducing sociolinguistics, Routledge, London
Ishtla Singh (2000), Pidgins and Creoles : an introduction, Hodder Arnold, London
*Maggie Tallerman ( 2011), Understanding syntax, Understanding language series Hodder Arnold, London
Steven Pinker (2011), Words and rules : the ingredients of language, Harper Perennial, London
Ronald Wardhaugh (2009), An introduction to sociolinguistics, Blackwell textbooks in linguistics ; Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford
George Yule (1996), Pragmatics, Oxford introductions to language study Oxford University Press, Oxford
*Mark Aronoff and Kristen Fudeman (2011) What is Morphology? (Fundamentals of Linguistics), Wiley Blackwell, Oxford
*Andrew Carnie (2006) Syntax (A Generative Introduction), Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford
April M.S. McMahon (2002) An Introduction to English Phonology, Oxford University Press and at 4shared (free download)
Useful reference
David Crystal (1999), The Penguin dictionary of language, Penguin reference books Penguin, London
David Crystal (2003), The Cambridge encyclopedia of language, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
*P.H. Matthews (2007), The Concise Oxford dictionary of linguistics, Oxford paperback reference Oxford University Press, Oxford