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M.A. Reading List

The M.A. Reading List, prepared and approved by the department faculty, is divided into the seven area options of the comprehensive examination. By design, each area contains a maximum of six major books or articles. Upon deciding on an area, you should consult with an appropriate faculty member in order to select another five major books or articles to include on the list for that area. We expect students to have a general knowledge of the contents and approach presented in the books and a more detailed knowledge of the arguments and data contained in the articles.

The following list is subject to change. You should make sure you have the most recent list upon beginning your M.A. studies. The comprehensive exam will be based on the list in effect upon your initial enrollment as a graduate student.

Syntax and Discourse

  1. Cook, Vivian, and Mark Newson. 1996. Chomsky's universal grammar: An introduction. 2nd ed. Pp. 1-132. Oxford: Blackwell.
  2. Du Bois, John W. 1987. The discourse basis of ergativity. Language 63.805-955.
  3. Goldberg, Adele E. 1995. Constructions: A construction grammar approach to argument structure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  4. Hopper, Paul J., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1980. Transitivity in grammar and discourse. Language 56.251-99.
  5. Mithun, Marianne. 1986. The evolution of noun incorporation. Language 62.847-94.
  6. Shopen, Timothy (ed.). 1985. Language typology and syntactic description. Vol. 1: Clause structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Semantics and Pragmatics

  1. Fauconnier, Gilles. 1994. Mental spaces: Aspects of meaning construction in natural language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. Kemmer, Suzanne, and Arie Verhagen. 1994. The grammar of causatives and the conceptual structure of events. Cognitive Linguistics 5.115-57.
  3. Lakoff, George. 1987. Women, fire and dangerous things: What categories reveal about the mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  4. Langacker, Ronald W. 1991. Concept, image, and symbol: The cognitive basis of grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
  5. Schiffren, Deborah. 1994. Approaches to discourse. Oxford: Blackwell.

Phonology and Phonetics

  1. Browman, Catherine P., and Louis M. Goldstein. 1992. Articulatory phonology: An overview. Phonetica 49.155-180.
  2. Bybee, Joan. 1996. Usage-based phonology. Paper presented at the Symposium on Formal and Functional Theories, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
  3. Clements, G. N. 1985. The geometry of phonological features. Phonology Yearbook 2.225-252.
  4. Goldsmith, John. 1990. Autosegmental phonology and metrical phonology. Oxford: Blackwell.
  5. Kiparsky, Paul. 1982. Lexical morphology and phonology. In Linguistics in the morning calm, ed. I.-S. Yang, 3-91. Seoul: Hanshin.
  6. Vennemann, Theo. 1988. Preference laws for syllable structure. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Morphology and Grammaticization

  1. B ybee, Joan L. 1985. Morphology: A study of the relation between meaning and form. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  2. Bybee, Joan, William Pagliuca, and Revere Perkins. 1994. The evolution of grammar: Tense, aspect and modality in the languages of the world. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  3. Heine, Bernd, Ulrike Claudi, and Frederike Hunnemeyer. 1991. From cognition to grammar: Evidence from African languages. In Approaches to grammaticalization, Vol. I. ed. E. Traugott and B. Heine, 149-87. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  4. Hopper, Paul J., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1984. The discourse basis for lexical categories in universal grammar. Language 60.703-52.
  5. Klima, Edward, and Ursula Bellugi. The signs of language. Chapter 12, The structured use of space and movement: Morphological processes. Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University Press.

Psycholinguistics

  1. Bloom, Paul. 1993. Language acquisition: Core readings. Chapters 1.1, 1.2, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.3, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1. Cambridge: MIT Press.
  2. Caramazza, Alfonzo. 1990. Cognitive neuropsychology and neurolinguistics: Advances in models of cognitive function and impairment. Hillsdale, NJ: LEA.
  3. Osherson, Daniel N., and Howard Lasnik. 1990. Language: An invitation to cognitive science, Vol. 1. Foreword & Chapters 4, 5 & 6. Cambridge: MIT Press.
  4. Schreuder, Robert, and Bert Weltens. 1993. The bilingual lexicon. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
  5. Slobin, Dan I. 1979. Psycholinguistics. 2nd ed. Scott, Forsman and Co.
  6. Tomasello, Michael, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, and Ann Cale Kruger. 1993. Imitative learning of actions on objects by children, chimpanzees, and enculturated chimpanzees. Child Development 64.1688-1705.

Sociolinguistics

  1. Biber, Douglas, and Edward Finegan (eds.). 1994. Sociolinguistic perspectives on register. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Especially chapters 1, 2, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14].
  2. Chambers, J. K. 1995. Sociolinguistic theory: Linguistic variation and its social significance. Oxford: Blackwell.
  3. Fishman, Joshua A. 1991. Reversing language shift: Theoretical and empirical foundations of assistance to threatened languages. Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters.
  4. Graddol, David, and Joan Swann. 1991. Gender Voices. Oxford: Blackwell.
  5. Labov, William. 1994. Principles of linguistic change. Vol. I. Internal factors. Oxford: Blackwell.
  6. Thomason, Sarah Grey, and Terrence Kaufman. 1991. Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Computational Linguistics

The reading list for Computational Linguistics is selected by the candidate in consultation with and the approval of the Department's Graduate Advisor.