MODL1060
Recommended reading
Dr Leendert Plug
L.Plug@leeds.ac.uk
Tutor information is taken from the Module Catalogue
General reading about language and linguistics
Bauer, L. 2007. The linguistics student's handbook. Edinburgh: EUP.
Bauer, L. & Trudgill, P. 1998. Language myths. London: Penguin.
Crystal, D. 1997. The Cambridge encyclopedia of language. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 1 is available as an Online Course Reading. Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva
Genetti, C. ed. 2014. How languages work : an introduction to language and linguistics. Cambridge: CUP.
Pinker, S. 1994. The language instinct. London: Penguin. Chapter 1 is available as an Online Course Reading. Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva
Yule, G. (various editions) The study of language. Cambridge: CUP.
Core textbooks for this module
McGregor, W. 2009. Linguistics : An introduction. London: Continuum.
Fabb, N. 2005. Sentence structure. 2nd edition. London: Routledge.
Further textbooks on phonetics and phonology
Ashby, P. 1995. Speech sounds. London: Routledge.
Collins, B. & I.M. Mees 2008. Practical phonetics and phonology. 2nd edition. London: Routledge.
Davenport, M. & J. Hannahs 2005. Introducing phonetics and phonology. London: Hodder Arnold. 2nd edition.
Knight, R. 2012. Phonetics : a coursebook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ladefoged, P. & Johnson, K. 2015. A course in phonetics. 7th edition. Stamford: Cengage Learning.
McMahon, A. M. S. 2002. An introduction to English phonology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Ogden, R. 2009. An introduction to English phonetics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Further textbooks on morphology
Bauer, L. 2003. Introducing Linguistic Morphology. 2nd edition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Katamba, F. 2006. Morphology. 2nd edition. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
Lieber, R. 2009. Introducing morphology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Matthews, P.R. 1974. Morphology : an introduction to the theory of word-structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Further textbooks on syntax
Carnie, A. 2013. Syntax: A Generative Introduction 3rd edition. Blackwell.
Larson, R.K. 2010. Grammar as science. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Radford, A. 1988. Transformational grammar : a first course. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Tallerman, M. 2011. Understanding Syntax. 3rd edition. Hodder.
This list was last updated on 08/09/2021