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Background Reading List for FHS Papers

A reading list for Paper A can be found here.

Consult the individual entries for each Paper B or contact the course convenor for additional readings for those papers.

Most titles are available in Oxford libraries. Click here to find which library holds a copy.

General

  • Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, Nina Hyams. (2013) An introduction to language, 10th edition. Wadsworth, Boston. (currently not electronically available)
  • Carol Genetti. (2014) How Languages Work: An Introduction to Language and Linguistics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. (not electronically available)

Phonetics and phonology

Morphology

Syntax

Semantics and pragmatics

Sociolinguistics

Historical linguistics

Psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics