FHS Reading List

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. (not electronically available)

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 (currently not electronically available)
• Peter Ladefoged. (2004) Vowels and consonants: An introduction to the sounds of languages. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/o3iafp/oxfaleph020909299
• Iggy Roca. (1994) Generative phonology. Linguistic theory guides, Routledge, London. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/o3iafp/oxfaleph021902070

Morphology

• Martin Haspelmath and Andrea D. Sims. (2010) Understanding morphology. Hodder Education, London. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/o3iafp/oxfaleph020567267
• Rochelle Lieber. (2010) Introducing morphology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/o3iafp/oxfaleph001122411

Syntax

• Andrew Carnie. (2012) Syntax: a Generative Introduction, third edtion. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/o3iafp/oxfaleph019576234
• 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. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/o3iafp/oxfaleph020529201
• Koenraad Kuiper and Jacqui Nokes. (2013) Theories of Syntax: Concepts and case studies. Palgrave, London. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/o3iafp/oxfaleph021900948

Semantics and pragmatics

• Daniel Altshuler, Terence Parsons and Roger Schwarzschild. (2019) A course in semantics. MIT Press, Cambridge. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/89vilt/oxfaleph021734421
• John L. Austin. (1975) How to Do Things with Words, Second Edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/n28kah/oxfaleph019320980
• Jerry R. Hobbs. (1990) Literature and Cognition. CSLI, Palo Alto. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/89vilt/oxfaleph010746062
• H. Paul Grice. (1989) Studies in the Way of Words. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/n28kah/oxfaleph019867172
• Paul Portner. (2005) What is Meaning? Blackwell, Oxford. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/89vilt/oxfaleph015795783

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. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/o3iafp/oxfaleph001038429

Historical linguistics

• Jean Aitchison. (2013) Language change: progress or decay? Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. (previous edition available electronically on SOLO http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/o3iafp/oxfaleph020565937 )
• Lyle Campbell. (1998) Historical linguistics: an introduction. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/o3iafp/oxfaleph020572831
• April M. S. McMahon. (1994) Understanding language change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/o3iafp/oxfaleph020611123
• R. L.Trask (1996), Historical linguistics, Hodder Arnold, London http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/o3iafp/oxfaleph020412839

Psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics

• David Caplan. (1987) Neurolinguistics and linguistic aphasiology: An introduction. Cambridge studies in speech science and communication, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. (ebook on order, check SOLO)
• 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) http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/n28kah/oxfaleph000813262
• Lenneberg, E.H. (1967) Biological foundations of language. Wiley, New York. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/89vilt/oxfaleph010142925
• Levelt, W.J.M. (1989). Speaking: From intention to articulation. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/n28kah/oxfaleph017842002
• 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) http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/n28kah/oxfaleph021480779
• Traxler, M. and Gernsbacher, M.A. (2011). Handbook of Psycholinguistics. 2^nd edition. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/89vilt/oxfaleph000865026