MODL1060
Recommended reading
Dr Bethan Davies
b.l.davies@leeds.ac.uk
Tutor information is taken from the Module Catalogue
Preliminary reading (to try before teaching starts)
Bauer, L. & Trudgill, P. 1998. Language myths. London: Penguin.
Crystal, D. 1997. The Cambridge encyclopedia of language. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1 and 2. Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva
McGregor, W. 2009. Linguistics : An introduction. London: Continuum.
Pinker, S. 1994. The language instinct. London: Penguin. Chapters 1, 2 and 12. Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva
Pinker, S. 1999. Words and rules : the ingredients of language. London: Wiedenfeld & Nicolson.
Yule, G. (various editions) The study of language. Cambridge: CUP.
Required reading
Bauer, L. 2007. The linguistics student's handbook. Edinburgh: EUP.
Genetti, C. ed. 2014. How languages work : an introduction to language and linguistics. Cambridge: CUP.
Phonetics
Ashby, M. & Maidment, J. 2005. Introducing phonetic science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ladefoged, P. 2006. A course in phonetics. 5th edition. Boston: Thomson and Wadsworth.
Ladefoged, P. 2004. Vowels and consonants. 2nd edition. London: Blackwell.
Catford, J. C. 2001. A practical introduction to phonetics. 2nd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Roach, P. 2001. Phonetics. Oxford University Press.
Phonology
Ashby, M. & Maidment, J. 2005 Introducing phonetic science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 9.
Katamba, F. 1989. An introduction to phonology. London: Longman.
Gussman, E. 2002. Phonology : theory and analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
McMahon, A. M. S. 2002. An introduction to English phonology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Roca, I. and W. Johnson 1999. A course in phonology. Oxford: Blackwell.
Spencer, A. 1996. Phonology : theory and description . Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
Morphology
Bauer, L. 1983. English word-formation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bauer, L. 1988. Introducing linguistic morphology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Katamba, F. 1993. Morphology.Basingstoke: Macmillan.
Matthews, P.R. 1974. Morphology : an introduction to the theory of word-structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Syntax
Fabb, N. 2005. Sentence structure. 2nd ed. London: Routledge. [Special recommendation!]
Brown, E.K. & Miller, J.E. 1991. Syntax: A linguistic introduction to sentence structure. London: HarperCollins.
Comrie, B. 1976. Tense. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Comrie, B. 1976. Aspect : an introduction to the study of verbal aspect and related problems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lyons, J. 1968. Introduction to theoretical linguistics.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 7 Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva
Palmer, F.R. 1971. Grammar. London: Penguin.
Palmer, F.R. 1986. Mood and modality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Payne, T.E. 1997. Describing morphosyntax : a guide for field linguists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Radford, A. 1988. Transformational grammar : a first course. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Shopen, T. ed. 1985. Language typology and syntactic description. (3 volumes) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Tallerman, M. 1998. Understanding syntax. London: Arnold.
This list was last updated on 24/08/2018