University College London
English Department
MA in English Linguistics
2014-2015
Preliminary reading list
Please read as many of the books listed below as you can. You are advised to start reading the books marked with an
asterisk (*).
General Linguistics
Matthews, P. (2003) Linguistics: a very short introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
English Grammar
Aarts, B. (2013) English syntax and argumentation, 4th edition, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
*Aarts, B. (2011) Oxford modern English grammar, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Aarts, B. (2014) Oxford dictionary of English grammar, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
*Huddleston, R. and G. K. Pullum (2005) A student’s introduction to English grammar, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Huddleston, R. (1984) Introduction to the grammar of English, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
English Corpus Linguistics
*McEnery, T. and A. Hardie (2011) Corpus linguistics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Meyer, C. (2002) English corpus linguistics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Phonetics and Phonology
*Carr, P. (2012) English phonetics and phonology: an introduction, 2nd edition, Oxford: Blackwell.
Roach, P. (2009) English phonetics and phonology: a practical course, 4th edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
English in Use
Cutting, J. (2007) Pragmatics and discourse, Abingdon: Routledge.
Merrison, A. J., A. Bloomer, P. Griffiths and C. J. Hall (2014) Introducing language in use: a coursebook, 2nd edition,
Abingdon: Routledge.
O’Keeffe, A., B. Clancy and S. Adolphs (2011) Introducing pragmatics in use, Abingdon: Routledge.
Saeed, J. (2009) Semantics, 3rd edition, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
English Words
Bauer, L. (2003) Introducing linguistic morphology, 2nd edition, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Katamba, F. (2004) English words: structure, history, usage, 2nd edition, Abingdon: Routledge.