General Interest

Abley, Mark. 2003. Spoken Here: Travels among Threatened Languages.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. (ISBN: 061823649X)

Barley, Nigel. 1986. The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut.
London: Penguin books. (ISBN: 0140095365)

Bauer, Laurie and Peter Trudgill (eds). 1998. Language Myths. New York:
Penguin Books. (ISBN: 0140260234)

Deutscher, Guy. 2005. The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of

Mankind's Greatest Invention. New York: Metropolitan Books. (ISBN: 0805079076)

Dixon, Robert M. W. 1983. Searching for Aboriginal Languages: Memoirs of a

Field Worker. New York: University of Queensland Press. (ISBN: 0702219339)

Pinker, Steven. 2000 [1994]. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates
Language. New York: Perennial Classics. (ISBN: 0060958332)

Sampson, Geoffrey. 2005. The 'Language Instinct' Debate. London: Continuum.

(ISBN: 0826473857)

Shopen, Timothy (ed). 1987. Languages and Their Speakers. Philadelphia:

University of Pennsylvania Press. (ISBN: 0812212509)

Shopen, Timothy (ed). 1987. Languages and Their Status. Philadelphia:

University of Pennsylvania Press. (ISBN: 0812212495)

Historical Background

Bloomfield, Leonard. [1933.] Language.

Boas, Franz. [1940.] Race, Language, and Culture.

Chomsky. Noam. 1965. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (Ch. 1, pp. 3-62.)
Cambridge: MIT Press.

de Saussure, Ferdinand. [1959.] A Course in General Linguistics.

Greenberg, Joseph H. 1957. Essays in Linguistics. Chicago: University of

Chicago Press.

Hockett, Charles F. 1958. A Course in Modern Linguistics. New York: Macmillan.

Humboldt, Wilhelm, Freiherr von. [1800.] On Language: The Diversity of

Human Language-structure and its Influence on the Mental Development of
Mankind.

Jesperson, Otto. [1924.] Philosophy of Grammar.

Pedersen, Holger. [1899.] The Discovery of Language.

Sapir, Edward. [1921.) Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech.

Current Issues

Bybee, Joan L. 2001. Phonology and Language Use. New York: Cambridge
University Press. (ISBN: 0521533783).

Bybee, Joan L., Revere Perkins, and William Pagliuca. 1994. The Evolution of
Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press. (ISBN: 0226086658).

Cameron, Deborah. 2001. Working with Spoken Discourse. Thousand Oaks:

Sage. (ISBN: 0761957731).

Comrie, Bernard. 1989. Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax

and Morphology, 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell. (ISBN: 063112618X).

Crowley, Terry. 1997. An Introduction to Historical Linguistics, 3rd ed. New York:
Oxford University Press. (ISBN: 0195583787).

Givn, Talmy. 2001. Syntax: An Introduction, 2nd ed. vols. I & II. Philadelphia:
Benjamins. (ISBN: 1588110664 & 1588110680).

Goldberg, Adele. 1995. Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to

Argument Structure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (ISBN: 0226300862).

Haspelmath, Martin. 2002. Understanding Morphology. New York: Oxford

University Press. (ISBN: 0340760265).

Hopper, Paul J and Elizabeth Closs Traugott. 2003. Grammaticalization, 2nd ed.
New York: Cambridge University Press. (ISBN: 0521804213)

Jackendoff, Ray. 2002. Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar,

Evolution. New York: Oxford University Press. (ISBN: 0198270127).

Ladefoged, Peter and Ian Maddieson. 1996. Sounds of the World's Languages.
Cambridge, Mass: Blackwell. (ISBN: 0631198156).

Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson. 2003 [1980]. Metaphors We Live By.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (ISBN: 0226468372).

Robins, R. H. 1997. A Short History of Linguistics, 4th ed. New York: Longman.
(ISBN: 0582249945).

Taylor, John R. 2003. Linguistic Categorization, 3rd ed. New York: Oxford
University Press. (ISBN: 0199266646).

Ungerer, Friedrich and Hans-Jorg Schmid. 1996. An Introduction to Cognitive

Linguistics. New York: Longman. (ISBN: 0582239664).

van Valin, Robert D. 2001. An Introduction to Syntax. New York: Cambridge

University Press. (ISBN: 0521635667)