LINGUISTICS IN THE PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
Starred titles are obligatory.
ADVANCE READING
Mikael Parkvall. (2006) Limits of Language: Almost everything you didn't know about
language and languages. London: Battlebridge.
*Jean Aitchison (1998) The articulate mammal : an introduction to
psycholinguistics, Routledge, London
*Steven Pinker (1995) The language instinct : [how the mind creates
language], HarperPerennial, New York
GENERAL TEXTBOOKS
Martin Atkinson, David Kilby, Iggy Roca (1988), Foundations of general
linguistics, Unwin Hyman, London
Adrian Akmajian (2001), Linguistics : an introduction to language and communication, MIT
Press, Cambridge, Mass.
Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, Nina Hyams (2003), An introduction to
language, Thomson/Heinle, Boston, Mass
Radford, Andrew (1999), Linguistics : an introduction, Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge
MORE SPECIFIC WORKS
Jean Aitchison (2003), Words in the mind : an introduction to the mental
lexicon, Blackwell, Oxford
*Laurie Bauer (2003), Introducing linguistic morphology, Edinburgh University
Press, Edinburgh
John Clark and Colin Yallop (1995), An introduction to phonetics and phonology, Blackwell
textbooks in linguistics ; Blackwell, Oxford
Alan Cruse (2004), Meaning in language : an introduction to semantics and
pragmatics, Oxford textbooks in linguistics Oxford University Press, Oxford
*Michael Ashby and John Maidment (2005), Introducing phonetic
science, Cambridge introductions to language and linguistics Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge
David Caplan (1992), Language : structure, processing, and disorders, Issues in the biology
of language and cognition MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass ;
International Phonetic Association (1999), Handbook of the International Phonetic
Association :a guide to the use of the international phonetic alphabet, Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge
Paul R. Kroeger (2005), Analyzing grammar : an introduction, Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge
John Lyons (1995), Linguistic semantics : an introduction, Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge
April M.S. McMahon (1994), Understanding language change, Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge
Miriam Meyerhoff (2006), Introducing sociolinguistics, Routledge, London
Ishtla Singh (2000), Pidgins and Creoles : an introduction, Arnold, London
*Maggie Tallerman (2005), Understanding syntax, Understanding language
series Hodder Arnold, London
Steven Pinker (1999), Words and rules : the ingredients of language, Science
masters Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London
Ronald Wardhaugh (1998), An introduction to sociolinguistics, Blackwell textbooks in
linguistics ; Blackwell, Oxford
George Yule (1996), Pragmatics, Oxford introductions to language study Oxford University
Press, Oxford
USEFUL REFERENCE
David Crystal (1999), The Penguin dictionary of language, Penguin reference
books Penguin, London
David Crystal (1997), The Cambridge encyclopedia of language, Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge
*P.H. Matthews (1997), The concise Oxford dictionary of linguistics, Oxford paperback
reference Oxford University Press, Oxford