Further Reading:
Here are some books that you might find interesting or useful. These are
books that I have
read myself and found well-written and useful. Needless to say that this
is my own opinion
and that other people would recommend other books.
The notation and terminology might be very different from that in the class.
Most books
also are more advanced, offering more in-depth analysis.
Light Reading:
Umberto Eco: The Search for the Perfect Language (The Making of
Europe), Blackwell, 1997
Leanne Hinton: Flutes of Fire. Essays on Californian Indian Languages
Heyday Books,
Berkeley, California.
Steven Pinker: The Language Instinct. Penguin Books.
General:
Leonard Bloomfield: Language. The University of Chicago Press.
John Lyons: Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics. Cambridge University
Press.
Phonetics and Phonology:
Colin Ewen and Harry van der Hulst: The Phonological Structure of Words.
An Introduction.
Cambridge University Press.
Richard Hogg and C. B. McCully: Metrical Phonology. A coursebook.
Cambridge University
Press.
Morphology:
Laurie Bauer: Introducing Linguistic Morphology. Edinburgh University
Press.
Igor Melčuk: Cours de Morphologie Générale. Vols 1 -5.
Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal.
[Unfortunately it is written in French.]
Syntax:
Jamal Ouhalla: Introducing Transformational Grammar. From Principles and
Parameters to
Minimalism. Arnold/Hodder
Headlines.
David Perlmutter: Syntactic Argumentation and the Structure of English.
University of California
Press.
Robert van Valin and Randy LaPolla: Syntax. Structure, Meaning and
Function. Cambridge
University Press.
Semantics:
Emmon Bach: Informal Lectures on Formal Semantics. State University
of New York Press.
John Lyons: Semantics. Vol. 1 and 2. Cambridge University Press.
Henriette de Swart: Introduction to Natural Language Semantics. Cambridge
University Press.
Language Diversity:
David Crystal: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language,
Cambridge University Press.
Winfred Lehman: Historical Linguistics, Routledge, London.