Background Reading List for FHS Papers

A reading list for Paper A can be found here.

Consult the individual entries for each Paper B or contact the course convenor for additional readings for those papers.

Most titles are available in Oxford libraries. Click here to find which library holds a copy.

General

• Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, Nina Hyams. (2013) An introduction to language, 10th edition. Wadsworth, Boston. (currently not electronically available)
• Carol Genetti. (2014) How Languages Work: An Introduction to Language and Linguistics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44OXF_INST/rl48sd/alma991025395692107026

Phonetics and phonology

• International Phonetic Association. (1999) Handbook of the International Phonetic Association: A guide to the use of the international phonetic alphabet. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44OXF_INST/rl48sd/alma991025432136007026
• Peter Ladefoged. (2004) Vowels and consonants: An introduction to the sounds of languages. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. (not electronically available)
• Iggy Roca. (1994) Generative phonology. Linguistic theory guides, Routledge, London. (not electronically available)

Morphology

• Martin Haspelmath and Andrea D. Sims. (2010) Understanding morphology. Hodder Education, London. https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44OXF_INST/rl48sd/alma991027219334007026
• Rochelle Lieber. (2010) Introducing morphology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44OXF_INST/rl48sd/alma991025395714107026

Syntax

• Andrew Carnie. (2012) Syntax: a Generative Introduction, third edtion. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. (not electronically available)
• Yehuda N. Falk. (2001) Lexical-functional grammar: an introduction to parallel constraint-based syntax. CSLI Publications, Stanford. (not electronically available)
• Paul R. Kroeger. (2004) Analyzing syntax. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44OXF_INST/9gb1d2/alma990205292010107026
• Koenraad Kuiper and Jacqui Nokes. (2013) Theories of Syntax: Concepts and case studies. Palgrave, London. https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44OXF_INST/9gb1d2/alma991022205782907026

Semantics and pragmatics

• Daniel Altshuler, Terence Parsons and Roger Schwarzschild. (2019) A course in semantics. MIT Press, Cambridge. (not electronically available)
• John L. Austin. (1975) How to Do Things with Words, Second Edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford. https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44OXF_INST/rl48sd/alma991022155623307026
• Jerry R. Hobbs. (1990) Literature and Cognition. CSLI, Palo Alto. (not electronically available)
• H. Paul Grice. (1989) Studies in the Way of Words. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. (not electronically available)
• Paul Portner. (2005) What is Meaning? Blackwell, Oxford. (not electronically available)

Sociolinguistics

• Nikolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski. (2009) The New Sociolinguistics Reader. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. (not electronically available)
• Christina Bratt Paulston. (2003) Sociolinguistics: the essential readings. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. (not electronically available)
• Miriam Meyerhoff. (2011) Introducing sociolinguistics. Routledge, London. https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44OXF_INST/rl48sd/alma991022155623307026

Historical linguistics

• Jean Aitchison. (2013) Language change: progress or decay? Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. (previous edition available electronically on SOLO https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44OXF_INST/rl48sd/alma991025395680407026)
• Lyle Campbell. (1998) Historical linguistics: an introduction. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44OXF_INST/rl48sd/alma991027278168207026
• April M. S. McMahon. (1994) Understanding language change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44OXF_INST/rl48sd/alma990206111230107026
• R. L.Trask (1996), Historical linguistics, Hodder Arnold, London https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44OXF_INST/rl48sd/alma991025535413707026

Psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics

• David Caplan. (1987) Neurolinguistics and linguistic aphasiology: An introduction. Cambridge studies in speech science and communication, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44OXF_INST/rl48sd/alma990219055270107026
• David Caplan. (1996) Language: Structure, processing, and disorders. Issues in the biology of language and cognition, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=48840
• Guasti, M.T. (2017). Language Acquisition: The Growth of Grammar. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. (the 2002 1^st edition is available online) https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44OXF_INST/9gb1d2/alma991027362394507026
• Lenneberg, E.H. (1967) Biological foundations of language. Wiley, New York. (not electronically available)
• Levelt, W.J.M. (1989). Speaking: From intention to articulation. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44OXF_INST/9gb1d2/alma991022096345307026
• Plunkett, Kim. (1998) Language acquisition and connectionism. Psychology Press, Hove (not electronically available)
• Sedivy, J. (2020). Language in Mind: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics. 2^nd edition. New York : Sinauer Associates (the 2014 Palgrave Macmillan 1^stedition is available electronically in the Bodleian Libraries reading room PCs) (not electronically available)
• Traxler, M. and Gernsbacher, M.A. (2011). Handbook of Psycholinguistics. 2^nd edition. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science. https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44OXF_INST/9gb1d2/alma991022105983307026