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Building a Linguistic Library
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| Author: | Richard Lavin | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
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General Linguistics
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Some time ago, I requested suggestions from list members regarding how to
spend 1700 dollars to build up a basic linguistics collection from nothing at a University library. Apologies for the long delay in following this up, but I've been given a year to spend the money so have been taking my time. Here is a summary of the suggestions I received. I should like to thank the following people for taking the trouble to offer their help (titles omitted): B.P. Hemananda, Adam Werle, Alex Monaghan, Khaled Rifaat, Bec Lindsay, and Linda Coleman. Thanks also to Richard Sproat for reminding me that thanking each individual privately, as I did some time ago, is not enough. - -------------------------- ''The Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics would be one of the first places I'd look for solid, classic treatments of specific topics. One could get solid (if inevitably dated) presentations of a range of areas from that series. For added material on discourse analysis, I'd consider _The Discourse Reader_, edited by Adam Jaworski & Nikolas Coupland (Routledge, 1999). It's a compendium of some of the classic articles and stances in D.A. Steven Davis' edited volume, _Pragmatics: A Reader_ (Oxford, 1991), contains a number of essential readings that any library should have. I would also make sure I had the latest update of Sperber & Wilson's _Relevance_. Personally, I'd consider Deborah Tannen's edited volume _Framing in Discourse_ essential, but much would depend on the specific emphasis of the program you're constructing.'' - ---------------------- ''Zentella, Ana Celia. ''Growing Up Blingual''. Halliday, MAK. ''Introduction to Functional Grammar''. Foley, William. ''Introduction to Anthropological Linguistics''. Bergvall, Victoria L., Bing, Janet M. and Freed, Alice F. (Eds) ''Rethinking Language and Gender Research: Theory and Practice''. Cameron, Deborah. ''Verbal Hygeine''. Campbell, L. ''Historical Linguistics.'' '' (Bec Lindsay said these titles inspired her in her studies.) - ---------------------- ''may i suggest the two CUP series ''Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics'' and ''Cambridge Studies in Linguistics''? they have two great advantages: they're broad-ranging, and they're cheap! (nearly all available softbound). you obviously wouldn't want to buy all of them, but there are some excellent ones written by big names: TEXTBOOKS Allwood, Andersson & Dahl: Logic in Linguistics Chambers & Trudgill: Dialectology Cruttenden: Intonation Fry: The Physics of Speech Kager: Optimality Theory Kempson: Semantic Theory Laver: Principles of Phonetics Levinson: Pragmatics etc. STUDIES Clark: The Lexicon in Acquisition Coleman: Phonological Representations Ladd: Intonational Phonology Lass: Historical Linguistics and Language Change McMahon: Lexical Phonology and the History of English etc.'' - ------------------------ ''I would think that some of the Handbooks published by Blackwell would be indispensable, e.g. 'The Handbook of Contemporary Phonological Theory' ed. John Goldsmith, 'The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory' ed. Shalom Lappin, etc.'' - ------------------------ The following site was suggested as a good place to track down books, though I've found it difficult to access: http://tn-speech.essex.ac.uk/tn-speech/ - ------------------------- MY COMMENTS: Notice that the only item or series mentioned twice was the Cambridge Studies in Linguistics series. I was kind of hoping that there would be a few titles coming up again and again as absolute must-read classics, that I would feel compelled to buy. It seems, though, that the field is so fragmented that there is no longer such a thing as a text recognized universally as 'core'. The money has to be spent pretty quickly, so I decided to get a smattering of books on syntax, which I still consider a core sub-field, and also general linguistics, and spend most of the rest on phonology, including computational phonology, my own main interest, leaving other fields to future faculty. For what it's worth, here are some of the titles I've already decided on, leaving out titles with too specialist a focus: Speech and Language Processing, Jurafsky & Martin The Handbook of Logic and Language, van Benthen & ter Meulen The Handbook of Linguistics, Aronoff & Rees-Miller The Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory, Baltin & Collins The Linguistics Encyclopedia, Malmkjaer The Handbook of Phonological Theory, Goldsmith Phonological Theory: the essential readings, Goldsmith Syntactic Theory and the Structure of English, Radford Linguistics: an introduction to linguistic theory, Fromkin et al. A Coursebook in Phonology, Roca Prosodic Features and Prosodic Structure: the Phonology of Suprasegmentals, Fox (NOTE:This seems to be not very well-known outside the UK, but could well be the best survey available of theories of prosody.) Optimality Theory: Phonology, Syntax and Acquisition, Dekkers et al Intonational Phonology, Ladd Generative and Non-linear Phonology, Durand Richard Lavin rick@rslavin.net Kyushu Tokai University |
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| LL Issue: | 12.2451 | |
| Date Posted: | 03-Oct-2001 | |
| Original Query: | Read original query | |
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