Department of Linguistics
Reading Lists for Linguistics Papers
Reference Books
Recommended books you can consult in order to check specialist words and expressions that turn up in textbooks and in lectures.
Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos Parts IB and II and Linguistics Preliminary Examination (Old Regulations)
- General Linguistics (to be taught for the last time in 2009/2010)
- Language Variation (to be taught for the last time in 2009/2010)
Linguistics Tripos Part I
- Sounds and words (PDF 352 KB)
- Structures and meanings (PDF 418 KB)
- Language, brain and society (PDF 352 KB)
- History and varieties of English (PDF 356 KB)
Linguistics Tripos (compulsory paper)
- Paper 5 (New Regulations)/Paper 1 (Old Regulations): Linguistic Theory
Linguistics Tripos Part II and MML Tripos Part II.
- Phonetics
- Foundations of Speech Communication
- Phonology and Morphology
- Syntax
- Semantics and Pragmatics (PDF 172 KB)
- Historical Linguistics
- History of Ideas on Language (new from 2010/2011)
- The Structure of English (to be taught for the last time in 2009/2010)
Recommended reading for students wishing to answer the linguistics questions on language essay papers
