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Linguistics: Some Classic Works

A Subject Guide

Some Classic Works in the Axinn Library

Bloomfield, Leonard

Language. New York: H. Holt and Company, [c. 1933]. Call Number: P121 .B5. Location: Book Stacks.

Chomsky Noam

Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. Cambridge, M.I.T. Press [1965]. Call Number: P291 .C38. Location: Book Stacks and Reserve.

Chomsky, Noam and Halle, Morris

The Sound Patterns of English. New York, Harper and Row [1968]. Call Number: PE1133.C5. Location: Book Stacks.

Halliday, Michael

Language As Social Semiotic: The Social Interpretation of Language and Meaning. Baltimore: University Park Press, 1978. Call Number: P40.H34. Location: Book Stacks.

Harris, Zellig

Mathematical Structures of Language . Huntington, NY: R.E. Krieger Pub. Co., 1979. Call Number: P138.H37 1979. Location: Book Stacks.

Hjelmslev, Louis

Prolegomena to a Theory of Language. Translated by Francis J. Whitfield. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1963. Call Number: P105 .H514 1961. Location: Book Stacks.

Humboldt, Wilhelm

Linguistic Variability and Intellectual Development. Translated by George C. Buck and Frithjof A. Raven. Coral Gables, Fla., University of Miami Press, 1971. Call Number: P103 .H813. Location: Book Stacks.

Hymes, Dell, ed.

Language in Culture and Society; A Reader in Linguistics and Anthropology. New York, Harper and Row, 1964. Call Number: P123.H9 . Location: Book Stacks.

Jakobson, Roman

On Language. Edited by Linda R. Waugh and Monique Monville-Burston. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990. Call Number: P121 .J27 1990. Location: Book Stacks.

Labov, William

Language in the Inner City; Studies in the Black English Vernacular. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972. Call Number: PE3102.N4L3. Location: Book Stacks.

Sapir, Edward

Language, An Introduction to the Study of Speech. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1921. Call Number: P105.S2. Location: Book Stacks.

Whorf, Benjamin

Language, Thought, and Reality; Selected Writings. Edited and with an introd. by John B. Carroll. Cambridge, MA; Technology Press of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1956. Call Number: P27.W53. Location: Book Stacks.

 

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