English Language Studies
Preliminary Reading List, Semester 1 2010-11
Students taking ELS will study both modules listed below in semester 1:
EN 1001 Approaches to Language Study
Textbook:
Mullaney, Louise and Stockwell, Peter (2010). Introducing English Language. A
Resource Book for Students. Abingdon: Routledge.
Please buy this for the start of the module.
Recommended additional book:
Wray, Alison and Bloomer, Aileen (2006). Projects in Linguistics. A Practical Guide to
Researching Language. 2nd edition. London: Hodder Arnold.
This book will be helpful for your degree in general and we recommend that you buy
this.
EN 1002 – Understanding Language I: Morphology and Syntax
Set textbook:
Thomas, Linda (1993). Beginning Syntax (Oxford: Blackwell).
Please buy this book for the start of the module.
Additional bibliography:
You might find these books helpful during the course of the module; you don’t need to
buy them, though.
Bauer, Laurie. Introducing Linguistic Morphology. 2nd edition. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press, 2003).
Booij, Geert. The Grammar of Words: An Introduction to Linguistic Morphology
(Oxford: OUP, 2004).
Burton-Roberts, Noel. Analysing Sentences: An Introduction to English Syntax. 2nd edn.
(London: Longman, 1997).
Carnie, Andrew. Syntax: A Generative Introduction. 2nd edition. (Oxford: Blackwell,
2007).
Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew. An Introduction to English Morphology: Words and their
Structure (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2001).
Crystal, David. Linguistics (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971).
Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. 2nd edn.
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman and Nina Hyams. An Introduction to Language. 8th
edn. (London: Wadsworth, 2006).
Jackson, Howard. Grammar and Vocabulary. A Resource Book for Students (London:
Routledge, 2002).
Leech, Geoffrey. Introducing English Grammar (London: Penguin, 1992).
Lieber, Rochelle. Introducing Morphology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2010).
Lucas, Bill and Edward Fennel (eds.). Kitchen Table Lingo (London: Virgin Books, 2008).
Matthews, Peter H. Morphology: An Introduction to the Theory of Word-Structure
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974).
Tallerman, Maggie. Understanding Syntax. 2nd edn. (London: Hodder, 2005).