Modern English Language 2 And 3 Year Seminar 2007 2008 Reading List
Modern English Language
2nd and 3rd year seminar
2007-2008
Reading List
Coursebook:
Bas Aarts, English syntax and argumentation, London: Palgrave, Modern Linguistics series. Second edition 2001.
General
B Aarts and A McMahon The handbook of English Linguistics. Malden MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2006.
Grammar (including reference works)
B Aarts Syntactic gradience: the nature of grammatical indeterminacy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
B Aarts, D Denison, E Keizer and G Popova (eds.) Fuzzy grammar: a reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2004.
D Biber, S Johansson, G Leech, S Conrad and E Finegan Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English,
London: Longman, 1999.
D Biber, S Conrad and G Leech Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English. London: Longman,
2002.
K Börjars and K Burridge Introducing English grammar. London: Arnold, 2000.
L Brinton The structure of modern English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2001.
K Brown and J Miller Syntax, London: Routledge, second edition, 1991.
N Burton-Roberts Analysing sentences, London: Longman, second edition, 1997.
S Chalker and E Weiner The Oxford dictionary of English grammar, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.
P Collins English grammar. London: Longman, 1998.
D Crystal Rediscover grammar, London: Longman, 1988.
D Crystal The Cambridge encyclopedia of the English language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, second
edition, 2003.
D Crystal The fight for English: how language pundits ate, shot, and left. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
D Crystal How language works: how babies babble, words change meaning and languages live or die. London:
Penguin, 2007.
D Freeborn A coursebook in English grammar, London: Macmillan, 1987.
S Gramley and K-M Pätzold A survey of modern English, London: Routledge, second edition, 2004.
S Greenbaum and G Nelson An introduction to English grammar, London: Longman, second edition, 2002.
S Greenbaum The Oxford English grammar, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
S Greenbaum and R Quirk A student’s grammar of English, London: Longman, 1990.
R Huddleston Introduction to the grammar of English, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. [An abridged
version is English grammar: an outline, Cambridge: CUP, 1988.]
R Huddleston and G Pullum The Cambridge grammar of the English language. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2002.
R Huddleston and G Pullum A student’s introduction to English grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2005.
J Hurford Grammar: a student’s guide, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
G Leech A Glossary of English Grammar, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
G Leech, M Deuchar and R Hoogenraad English grammar for today, London: Macmillan, second edition, 2005.
G Leech, B Cruickshank and R IvaniÄŤ An A-Z of English grammar and usage, London: Longman, second eidtion,
2001.
G Leech Meaning and the English verb, London: Longman, fourth edition, 2004.
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G Leech and J Svartvik A communicative grammar of English, third edition, London: Longman, 2002.
T McArthur (ed.) The Oxford companion to the English language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
M Morenberg Doing grammar, Oxford: Oxford University Press, third edition, 2002.
G Nelson, English: an essential grammar. London: Routledge, 2001.
F Palmer The English verb, second edition, London: Longman, 1987.
F Palmer Modality and the English modals, 2nd edition, London: Longman, 1990.
R Quirk, S Greenbaum, G Leech and J Svartvik A comprehensive grammar of the English language, London:
Longman, 1985.
L Truss Eats, shoots, and leaves: the zero tolerance approach to punctuation. London: Profile Books, 2003.
M Verspoor and K Sauter English sentence analysis. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2000
R Wardhaugh Understanding English grammar: a linguistic approach, Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.
Semantics and Pragmatics
P Grundy Doing pragmatics, London: Edward Arnold, second edition 2000.
J Hurford and B Heasley Semantics: a coursebook, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
C W Kreidler Introducing English semantics., London: Routledge, 1998.
G Leech Principles of pragmatics, London: Longman, 1983.
G Leech Semantics, 2nd edition, London: Penguin, 1981.
J Lyons Linguistic semantics: an introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
J Mey Pragmatics: an introduction, Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.
J Saeed Semantics, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, second edition, 2002.
Lexicology and Morphology
V Adams An introduction to modern English word-formation, London: Longman, 1973.
V Adams Complex words in English. London: Pearson Education, 2001.
J Aitchison Words in the mind: an introduction to the mental lexicon, third edition, Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.
L Bauer English word-formation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
L Bauer Introducing linguistic morphology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univereity Press, 1988.
Carstairs-McCarthy An introduction to English morphology: words and their structure. Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press, 2001.
H Jackson Words and their meaning, London: Longman, 1983.
F Katamba English words, London: Routledge, second edition 2005.
P Matthews Morphology, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
I Plag Word-formation in English, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Stylistics
D Crystal and D Davy Investigating English style, London: Longman, 1969.
J Hope and L Wright Stylistics: a practical coursebook, London: Routledge, 1995.
G Leech A linguistic guide to English poetry, London: Longman, 1969.
G Leech and M. Short Style in fiction: a linguistic guide to English fictional prose, London: Longman, 1981.
W Nash Designs in prose, London: Longman, 1980.
P Simpson, Language through literature, London: Routledge, 1997.
K Wales A dictionary of stylistics, London: Longman, second edition 2001.
Cohesion
J Soon Cha Linguistic cohesion in texts: theory and description. Seoul: Daehan Textbook Printing, 1985.
M A K Halliday and R Hasan Cohesion in English. London: Longman, 1976
R De Beaugrande and W. Dressler Introduction to text linguistics. London: Longman, 1981.
M Hoey On the surface of discourse. London: Allen and Unwin, 1983
G Leech and M Short Style in fiction: a linguistic guide to English fictional prose. London Longman, 1981.
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Usage
D Bolinger Language: the loaded weapon, London: Longman, 1980.
D Crystal Who cares about English usage?, London: Penguin, 1984.
E Gowers The complete plain words, 3rd ed, rev by S Greenbaum and J Whitcut, London: Penguin, 1987.
S Greenbaum Good English and the grammarian, London: Longman, 1988.
S Greenbaum and J Whitcut Guide to English usage, London: Longman, 1988.
J Kahn The right word at the right time, London: Reader’s Digest, 1985.
W Mittins, M Salu, M Edminson, S Coyne Attitudes to English usage, Oxford: OUP, 1970.
E Partridge Usage and abusage, London: Penguin, 1973.
R Quirk and G Stein English in use, London: Longman, 1990.
E Weiner Guide to contemporary usage, London: Sphere, 1985. [=The Oxford guide to English usage.]
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