Linguistics Olympiad: Training Guide

A complete first course in linguistics written by seven university instructors, covering phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and language in society. This revised second edition adds chapters on language, power and identity, with practice exercises in every chapter.

Catherine Anderson et al.

Lecture notes from a university introduction to linguistics, moving step by step from phonetics and phonology to morphology, syntax and semantics. Clear and rigorous, with a strong focus on how linguists analyze real data.

Marcus Kracht

Edward Sapir's 1921 classic on what language is, how languages differ and how they change over time. A short, elegant book that still shapes how linguists think about sounds, grammar, language and culture.

Edward Sapir

Leonard Bloomfield's first book, written in 1914 for general readers and beginning students. It explains the nature of speech, sound change, word structure and the growth of languages, and set the stage for modern linguistics.

Leonard Bloomfield