1. Introductory

• Adrian Akmajian, Richard Demers, Ann Farmer, Robert Harnish. (2010) Linguistics: An introduction to language and communication. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
• Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, Nina Hyams. (2013) An introduction to language, 10th edition.  Wadsworth, Boston.

2. Reference

• Asher, R.E., Simpson, J.M.V. (eds) 1994. The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 10 vols. Pergamon.
• Frawley, W. (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. 4 vols. OUP, 2003 (1st edn, ed. W. Bright, 1991)
• Crystal, D. 2008. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6th edition. Blackwell.
• Matthews, P. 2007. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. 2nd ed. OUP.
• Pinker, S. 1994. The Language Instinct. The New Science of Language and Mind. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
• Trask, R.L. 1993. A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics. Routledge.
• Linguistics Abstracts, Blackwell. This periodical contains classified abstracts in English of linguistics articles appearing in more than 140 journals from over 20 countries. Some survey articles.
• Bibliographie Linguistique (Permanent Committee of Linguists). Utrecht: Spectrum.
• Brown, Keith (ed.) 2006. Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. Elsevier. Electronic resource

3. Journals

Check also the list of journals in Part II under A. Syntax, since most of them also have more general articles.

@ marks those journals which are available on-line in Oxford, via OU-Ejournals on  OxLip+

• @Language, Journal of the Linguistic Society of America.
  
  Something for everyone. Includes significant review articles.
• @Journal of Linguistics CUP.
  
  Journal of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain.
• @Transactions of the Philological Society
  
  The oldest linguistic journal. Articles on historical, descriptive and general linguistics.
• The Linguistic Review
  
  Journal of GLOW (Generative Linguists of the Old World).
• @Language and Cognitive Processes.
• @Lingua
  
  Linguistics, Syntax and phonology but also other subjects. Review articles.
• Linguistic Typology.Typologically oriented work on phonology, morphology, syntax, historical linguistics, and other areas.
• @Cognition
  
  A leading journal of cognitive science, with articles on linguistics and psycholinguistics.
• @Computational Linguistics
• @Language and Speech
  
  Covers empirically strong research on all areas of linguistics.
• Word: journal of the International Linguistic Association