Department of English, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Kortmann, Mair, Halford, Matthews
October 2006
SELECTED READING LIST LINGUISTICS
The following titles provide a good survey of the discipline as a whole and of those branches of linguistics the majority of
(English) linguistics courses are about. In general, you will be well advised if you turn to one of the Cambridge Textbooks in
Linguistics (the famous red paperback series by Cambridge University Press [short: CUP]) or, at a more advanced stage, to
one of the Handbooks published by Blackwell since the late 1990s.
Bibliographies
Annotated bibliography of English Studies. Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger. (every six months on CD-ROM; online demo version
http://abes.swets.nl; full version: http://www.ub.uni-freiburg.de/hylib/suche-EP.cgi?nd=10239, ReDI password necessary)
Bibliographie linguistischer Literatur = Bibliography of linguistic literature. Frankfurt/M.: Klostermann. (annually or online:
http://www.ub.uni-freiburg.de/hylib/suche-EP.cgi?nd=10279; ReDI password necessary)
Linguistic bibliography = Bibliographie linguistique. The Hague.(annually) (http://www.kb.nl/kb/blonline/)
MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures. Ed. by Modern Language
Association. New York. (annually; online: http://www.ub.uni-freiburg.de/hylib/suche-EP.cgi?nd=10017; ReDI password
necessary)
Dictionaries and encyclopaedias
Aronoff, Mark/Janie Rees-Miller. 2001. The Handbook of linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell.
Asher, R.E., ed. 1994. The encyclopedia of language and linguistics. 10 vols. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
Bußmann, Hadumod. 2002³. Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft. Stuttgart: Kröner.
Bußmann, Hadumod. 1999². Routledge dictionary of language and linguistics. London: Routledge.
Bright, William, ed. 2003². An international encyclopaedia of linguistics. 4 vols. Oxford/New York: OUP.
Brown, Keith, ed. 2005². Encyclopedia of language and linguistics. 14 vols. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Collinge, Neville E. 1990. An encyclopaedia of language. London: Routledge.
Crystal, David. 1997². The Cambridge encyclopedia of language. Cambridge: CUP.
Crystal, David. 1992. An encyclopedic dictionary of language and languages. Oxford: Blackwell.
Crystal, David. 20035. A dictionary of linguistics and phonetics. Oxford: Blackwell.
Herbst, Thomas et al. 1991. Terminologie der Sprachbeschreibung: Ein Lernwörterbuch für das Anglistikstudium. Ismaning:
Hueber.
Malmkjaer, Kirsten. 2001². The linguistics encyclopedia. London: Routledge.
Richards, Jack et al.2002³. Dictionary of language teaching and applied linguistics. London/Munich: Longman.
Smelser, Neil J./Paul B. Baltes, eds. 2001. International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences. Amsterdam:
Elsevier. www.iesbs.com
Trask, R.L. 1993. A dictionary of grammatical terms in linguistics. London: Routledge.
English language and linguistics
Aarts, Bas/April McMahon, eds. 2006. Handbook of English linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell.
Ahrens, Rüdiger/Wolf-Dietrich Bald/Werner Hüllen, Hrsg. 1995. Handbuch Englisch als Fremdsprache. Berlin: Schmidt.
Bolton, W.F./David Crystal, eds. 1987. The English language. London: Sphere.
Brinton, Laurel J. 2000. The structure of modern English: A linguistic introduction. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins.
Crystal, David. 2002². The English language. London: Penguin.
Crystal, David. 2003². The Cambridge encyclopedia of the English language. Cambridge: CUP.
Gramley, Stephan E./Kurt-Michael Pätzold. 2003². A survey of modern English. London: Routledge.
Kuiper, Konraad/W. Scott Allan. 2004². An introduction to English language: Sound, word, sentence. London: Macmillan.
Leisi, Ernst/Christian Mair. 1999. Das heutige Englisch. Heidelberg: Winter.
Mair, Christian. 1995. Englisch für Anglisten: Eine Einführung in die englische Sprache. Tübingen: Stauffenburg.
McArthur, Tom, ed. 1992. The Oxford companion to the English language. Oxford: OUP.
McArthur, Tom. 2003. Oxford Guide to World English. Oxford: OUP.
McCrum, Robert et al. 2003. The story of English. London: Penguin (paperback).
Strevens, Peter. 1972. British and American English. London: Collier-Macmillan.
Trudgill, Peter/Jean Hannah. 20024. International English: A guide to varieties of standard English. London: Arnold.
Viereck, Wolfgang/Karin Viereck/Heinrich Ramisch. 2002. Dtv-Atlas englische Sprache. München: DTV.
(see also under Sociolinguistics, Historical linguistics and Corpus linguistics)
Introductions and surveys
Aitchison, Jean. 19995. Linguistics: An introduction. London: Hodder & Stoughton.
Akmajian, Adrian et al. 20015. Linguistics: An introduction to language and communication. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Fasold, Ralph W./Jeff Connor-Linton, eds. 2006. An introduction to language and linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Stress.
Fromkin, Victoria/Robert Rodman. 20027. An introduction to language. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College.
Kortmann, Bernd. 2001. Linguistik: Essentials. Berlin: Cornelsen.
Kortmann, Bernd. 2005. English linguistics: Essentials. Berlin: Cornelsen.
Meyer, Paul Georg. 2005³. Synchronic English linguistics: An introduction. Tübingen: Narr.
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Newmeyer, Frederick, ed. 1988. Linguistics: The Cambridge survey. 4 vols. Cambridge: CUP.
O'Grady, William et al., eds. 20014. Contemporary linguistics: An introduction. New York: St. Martin's Press.
Yule, George. 20063. The study of language: An introduction. Cambridge: CUP.
Phonetics and phonology
Clark, John/Colin Yallop. 19952 . An introduction to phonetics and phonology. Oxford: Blackwell.
Cruttenden, Alan. 1997². Intonation. Cambridge: CUP.
Giegerich, Heinz J. 1992. English phonology. Cambridge: CUP.
Gimson, Alfred C. 19965. An introduction to the pronunciation of English. Rev. by Alan Cruttenden. London: Arnold.
Hardcastle, W.J./John Laver, eds. 1999. Handbook of phonetic sciences. Oxford: Blackwell.
Jacobs, Haike/Carlos Gussenhoven. 1998. Understanding phonology. London: Arnold.
Ladefoged, Peter. 20015. A course in phonetics. Boston: Heinle & Heinle.
Ladefoged, Peter. 2005². Vowels and consonants: An introduction to the sounds of languages. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell.
Ladefoged, Peter/Ian Maddieson. 2002. The sounds of the world's languages. Oxford: Blackwell.
Lass, Roger. 1984. Phonology: An introduction to basic concepts. Cambridge: CUP.
Laver, John. 1994. Principles of phonetics. Cambridge: CUP.
McMahon, April. 2002. An introduction to English phonology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
O'Connor, Joseph D. 19882. Better English pronunciation. Cambridge: CUP.
Roach, Peter. 2000³. English phonetics and phonology. A practical guide. Cambridge: CUP.
Shockey, Linda. 2002. Sound patterns of spoken English. Oxford: Blackwell.
Skandera, Paul/Peter Burleigh. 2005. A manual of English phonetics and phonology. Tübingen: Narr.
Wells, John. 1982 [1995]. Accents of English. 3 vols. Cambridge: CUP.
Morphology and Word-Formation
Adams, Valerie. 1992. An introduction to modern English word-formation. London: Longman.
Aronoff, Mark/Kirsten Fudeman. 2005. What is morphology?. Oxford: Blackwell.
Bauer, Laurie. 1983. English word-formation. Cambridge: CUP.
Bauer, Laurie. 2001. Morphological productivity. Cambridge: CUP.
Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew. 1992. Current morphology. London: Routledge.
Fischer, Roswitha. 1998. Lexical change in present-day English: A corpus-based study of the motivation, institutionalization,
and productivity of creative neologisms. Tübingen: Narr.
Haspelmath, Martin. 2002. Understanding morphology. London: Arnold.
Katamba, Francis. 1993. Morphology. London: Macmillan.
Matthews, Peter H. 19912. Morphology. Cambridge: CUP.
Plag, Ingo. 2003. Word-formation in English. Cambridge: CUP.
Schmid, Hans-Jörg. 2005. Englische Morphologie und Wortbildung: eine Einführung. Berlin: Schmidt.
Spencer, Andrew. 1998. The handbook of morphology. Oxford: Blackwell.
Stockwell, Robert P./Donka Minkova. 2001. English words:History and structure. Cambridge: CUP.
Grammar and syntax
Aarts, Bas. 1997. English syntax and argumentation. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
Baltin, Mark/Chris Collins. 2000. The handbook of contemporary syntactic theory. Oxford: Blackwell.
Biber, Douglas et al. 1999. The Longman grammar of spoken and written English. London: Longman.
Brown, Keith/Jim Miller, eds. 1996. Concise encyclopedia of syntactic theories. Oxford: Pergamon.
Downing, Angela/Philip Locke. 2002. A university course in English grammar. London: Routledge.
Givón, Talmy. 1993. English grammar: A function-based introduction. 2 vols. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins.
Greenbaum, Sidney. 1996. The Oxford English grammar. Oxford: OUP.
Greenbaum, Sidney/Randolph Quirk. 1990. A student's grammar of the English language. Harlow: Longman.
Haegeman, Liliane/Jacqueline Guéron. 1999. English grammar: a generative perspective. Oxford: Blackwell.
Huddleston, Rodney. 1984. Introduction to the grammar of English. Cambridge: CUP.
Huddleston, Rodney/Geoffrey K. Pullum. 2002. The Cambridge grammar of the English language. Cambridge: CUP.
Huddleston, Rodney/Geoffrey K. Pullum. 2004. A student’s introduction to English grammar. Cambridge: CUP.
Hurford, James R. 1994. Grammar: A student's guide. Cambridge: CUP.
McCawley, James D. 1998². The syntactic phenomena of English. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press.
Quirk, Randolph et al. 1985. A comprehensive grammar of the English language. London: Longman.
Radford, Andrew. 1997. Syntactic theory and the structure of English: A minimalist approach. Cambridge: CUP.
Semantics
Allan, Keith. 1986. Linguistic meaning. 2 vols. London: Routledge.
Croft, William/D. Alan Cruse. 2004. Cognitive linguistics. Cambridge: CUP.
Cruse, David A. 2004². Meaning in language: An introduction to semantics and pragmatics. Oxford: OUP.
Cruse, Alan et al., eds. 2002. Lexikologie/Lexicology. [HSK]. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter.
Davis, Steven et al., eds. 2004. Semantics: A reader. New York: OUP.
Evans, Vybyan/Melanie Green. 2006. Cognitive linguistics: An introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Hurford, James R./Brendan Heasley. 1983. Semantics: A coursebook. Cambridge: CUP.
Lappin, Shalom, ed. 1995. The Handbook of semantics. Oxford: Blackwell.
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Leisi, Ernst. 19852. Praxis der englischen Semantik. Heidelberg: Winter.
Löbner, Sebastian. 2002. Understanding semantics. London: Arnold.
Lyons, John. 1977. Semantics. 2 vols. Cambridge: CUP.
Lyons, John. 1995. Linguistic semantics: An introduction. Cambridge: CUP.
Saeed, John. 2003². Semantics. Oxford: Blackwell.
Taylor, John R. 2003³. Linguistic categorization: Prototypes in linguistic theory. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Ungerer, Friedrich/Hans-Jörg Schmid. 2003. An introduction to cognitive linguistics. London: Longman.
Pragmatics/Text Linguistics
Blakemore, Diane. 1992. Understanding utterances: An introduction to pragmatics. Oxford: Blackwell.
Blakemore, Diane. 2002. Relevance and linguistic meaning: the semantics and pragmatics of discourse markers. Cambridge: CUP.
Brown, Gillian/George Yule. 1983. Discourse analysis. Cambridge: CUP.
Brown, Penelope/Stephen C. Levinson. 2002. Politeness: Some universals of language usage. Cambridge: CUP.
Bublitz, Wolfram. 2001. Englische Pragmatik: Eine Einführung. Berlin: Schmidt.
Cutting, Joan. 2002. Pragmatics and discourse: a resource book for students. London: Routledge.
DeBeaugrande, Robert/Wolfgang Ulrich Dressler. 1981. Introduction to text linguistics. London: Longman.
Davis, Stephen, ed. 1991. Pragmatics: A reader. Oxford: OUP .
Green, Georgia M. 1996². Pragmatics and natural language understanding. Hillsdale: Erlbaum.
Horn, Laurence R./Gregory Ward, eds. 2004. The handbook of pragmatics. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Leech, Geoffrey N. 1989. Principles of pragmatics. London: Addison-Wesley .
Levinson, Stephen C. 1983. Pragmatics. Cambridge: CUP.
Mey, Jacob L. 2001². Pragmatics: An introduction. Oxford: Blackwell.
Schiffrin, Deborah. 1994. Approaches to discourse. Oxford: Blackwell.
Sperber, Dan/Deidre Wilson. 1996². Relevance: Communication and cognition. Oxford: Blackwell.
Verschueren, Jef. 1999. Understanding pragmatics. London: Arnold.
Psycholinguistics and Second Language Acquisition
Aitchison, Jean. 19893. The articulate mammal: An introduction to psycholinguistics. London: Unwin Hyman.
Aitchison, Jean. 19942. Words in the mind. Oxford: Blackwell.
Baker, Colin. 20064. Foundations of bilingual education and bilingualism. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
Bialystok, Ellen. 2001. Bilingualism in development: Language, literacy and cognition. Cambridge: CUP.
Clark, Eve. 2003. First language acquisition. Cambridge: CUP.
Doughty, Catherine/Michael Long, eds. 2003. The handbook of second language acquisition. Malden: Blackwell.
Ellis, Rod. 1996. The study of second language acquisition. Oxford: OUP.
Ellis, Rod. 1998. Second language acquisition. Oxford: OUP.
Field, John. 2004. Psycholinguistics. The key concepts. New York: Routledge.
Gass, Susan M/Larry Selinker. 2001². Second language acquisition: An introductory course. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Gillen, Julia. 2003. The language of children. London: Routledge.
Hoff, Erica. 20043. Language development. Belmont: Wadsworth Pub. Comp.
Mitchell, Rosamond/Florence Myles. 2004. Second language learning theories. London: Arnold.
Ritchie, William C./Tej K. Bhatia, eds. 1996. Handbook of second language acquisition. San Diego: Academic Press.
Saville-Troike, Muriel. 2006. Introducing second language acquisition. Cambridge: CUP.
Sociolinguistics
Algeo, John. 2001. Cambridge history of the English language. Vol. 6: English in North America. Cambridge: CUP.
Burchfield Robert W., ed. 1994. Cambridge history of the English language. Vol. 5: English in Britain and overseas: Origins and
development. Cambridge: CUP.
Cameron, Deborah, ed. 1998². The feminist critique of language: A reader. London & New York: Routledge.
Chambers, J.K. 2003². Sociolinguistic theory. Oxford: Blackwell.
Chambers, J.K./Peter Trudgill. 1998.2 Dialectology. Cambridge: CUP.
Chambers, J.K./Peter Trudgill/Natalie Schilling-Estes, eds. 2002. Handbook of language variation and change. Oxford:
Blackwell.
Cheshire, Jenny, ed. 1991. English around the world: Sociolinguistic perspectives. Cambridge: CUP.
Coates, Jennifer. 20043. Women, men and language. A sociolinguistic account of gender differences in language. London:
Longman.
Coupland, Nikolas/Adam Jaworski, eds. 1997. Sociolinguistics: A reader and coursebook. London: Macmillan.
Downes, William. 1998². Language and society. Cambridge: CUP.
Eckert, Penelope/Sally McConnell-Ginet. 2003. Language and gender. Cambridge: CUP.
Finegan, Edward/John R. Rickford, eds. 2004. Language in the USA: Themes for the 21st century. Cambridge: CUP.
Holm, John A. 1988-89. Pidgins and creoles. 2 vols. Cambridge: CUP.
Joseph, John E. 2004. Language and identity. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Kortmann, Bernd/Edgar Schneider/Kate Burridge/Raj Mesthrie/Clive Upton, eds. 2004. A handbook of varieties of English,
2. Vols. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. (+ CD-ROM)
Milroy, James/Lesley Milroy, eds. 1993. Real English: The grammar of English dialects in the British Isles. London: Longman.
Mufwene, Salikoko S./John R. Rickford/John Baugh/Guy Bailey, eds. 1998. African-American English. Structure, history and use.
London/New York: Routledge.
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Romaine, Suzanne. 2000². Language in society: An introduction to sociolinguistics. Oxford: OUP.
Thomas, Linda et al., eds. 2004². Language, society and power. London: Routledge.
Trudgill, Peter. 1999². The dialects of England. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell.
Trudgill, Peter/J.K. Chambers, eds. 1991. Dialects of English: Studies in grammatical variation. London: Longman.
Wolfram, Walt/Natalie Schilling-Estes. 1998. American English: dialects and variation. Oxford: Blackwell.
(for case studies of individual varieties see the series Varieties of English around the world (Benjamins))
Historical linguistics and the history of English
Aitchison, Jean. 2001³. Language change: progress or decay? Cambridge: CUP.
Bauer, Laurie. 1994. Watching English change. London: Longman.
Baugh, Albert C./Thomas Cable. 20025. A history of the English language. London: Routledge.
Bailey, Richard W. 1992. Images of English: A Cultural History of the Language. Cambridge: CUP.
Beal, Joan. 2004. English in modern times: 1700-1945. London: Arnold.
Berndt, Rolf. 1984. A history of the English language. Leipzig: Verlag Enzyklopädie.
Cambridge history of the English language. 1992. Vol. 1: The beginnings to 1066, ed. Richard M. Hogg; Vol. 2: 1066-1476,
ed. Norman F. Blake; Vol.3: 1476-1776, ed. Roger Lass; Vol. 4: 1776-1997, ed. Suzanne Romaine. Cambridge: CUP.
Crowley, Terry. 1992. An introduction to historical linguistics. Oxford: OUP.
Denison, David. 1993. English historical syntax. London: Longman.
Dillard, J.L. 1992. A history of American English. London: Longman.
Fennell, Barbara A. 2001. A history of English: a sociolinguistic approach. Oxford: Blackwell.
Fischer, Olga et al. 2000. The syntax of Early English. Cambridge: CUP.
Freeborn, Dennis. 1998². From Old English to Standard English. London: Macmillan.
Harris, Alice C./Lyle Campbell. 1995. Historical syntax in cross-linguistic perspective. Cambridge: CUP.
Hickey, Raymond, ed. 2003. Motives for language change. Cambridge: CUP.
Hock, Hans Henrich/Joseph, Brian D. 1996. Language history, language change, language relationship. Berlin: Mouton de
Gruyter.
Hopper, Paul J./Elizabeth C. Traugott. 2003². Grammaticalization. Cambridge: CUP.
Joseph, Brian D./Richard D. Janda, eds. 2003. The handbook of historical linguistics. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Jucker, Andreas H. 2000. History of English and English historical linguistics. Stuttgart: Klett.
Knowles, Gerry. 1997. A cultural history of the English language. London: Arnold.
Labov, William. 1994/2001. Principles of linguistic change, 2 vols. Oxford: Blackwell.
Lehmann, Winfred P. 1993³. Historical linguistics: An introduction. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
McMahon, April. 1994. Understanding language change. Cambridge: CUP.
Milroy, James. 1992. Linguistic variation and change: On the historical sociolinguistics of English. Oxford: Blackwell.
Nevalainen, Terttu/Helena Raumolin-Brunberg. 2003. Historical sociolinguistics: language change in Tudor and Stuart
England. London: Longman.
Nevalainen, Terttu. 2006. An introduction to Early Modern English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Traugott, Elizabeth Closs/Richard B. Dasher. 2002. Regularity in semantic change. Cambridge: CUP.
History of linguistics
Auroux, Sylvain et al., eds. 2000-2001. History of the language sciences: An international handbook on the evolution of the
study of language from the beginnings to the present. [HSK]. 2 vols. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter.
Amsterdamska, Olga. 1987. Schools of thought: The development of linguistics from Bopp to Saussure. Dordrecht: Reidel.
Harris, Roy, ed. 1988. Linguistic thought in England 1914-1945. London: Duckworth.
Harris, Roy/Talbot J. Taylor. 1989. Landmarks in linguistic thought. Vol. 1: The Western tradition from Socrates to
Saussure. London: Routledge.
Joseph, John Earl/Nigel Love/Talbot J. Taylor, eds. 2001. Landmarks in linguistic thought. Vol. 2: The Western tradition in
the twentieth century. London: Routledge.
Helbig, Gerhard. 19898. Die Geschichte der neueren Sprachwissenschaft. Opladen: Westfälischer Verlag.
Helbig, Gerhard. 1986. Entwicklung der Sprachwissenschaft seit 1970. Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut.
Hoffmann, Ludger, ed. 1996. Sprachwissenschaft. Ein Reader. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter.
Hymes, Dell/John Fought. 1981. American structuralism. The Hague: Mouton.
Lass, Roger. 1995. Old English: A historical linguistic companion. Cambridge: CUP.
Matthews, Peter. 1994. Grammatical theory in the United States from Bloomfield to Chomsky. Cambridge: CUP.
Newmeyer, Frederick J. 1986. Linguistic theory in America. New York: Academic Press.
Newmeyer, Frederick J. 1996. Generative linguistics. A historical perspective. London/New York: Routledge.
Newmeyer, Frederick J. 1998. Language form and language function. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Sampson, Geoffrey. 1998. Schools of linguistics: Competition and evolution. London: Hutchinson.
Corpus Linguistics
Biber, Douglas/Susan Conrad/Randi Reppen. 1998. Corpus linguistics. Investigating language structure and use. Cambridge:
CUP.
McEnery, Tony/Andrew Wilson. 2001. Corpus linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Meyer, Charles F. 2002. English Corpus linguistics: An introduction. Cambridge: CUP.
Kennedy, Graeme. 1998. An introduction to corpus linguistics. London: Longman.