Linguistics books recommended by reddit

The most-mentioned books on r/linguistics.

Language Files
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The Language Instinct
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Syntax
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Indo-European Language and Culture
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The Unfolding of Language
15 users
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue
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Empires of the Word
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Describing Morphosyntax
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An Introduction to Language
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Metaphors We Live By
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The Linguistics Wars
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Historical linguistics
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The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language
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The Power of Babel
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African American English
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
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Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics
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Language Myths
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Through the Language Glass
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A Course in Phonetics
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An Introduction to Historical Linguistics
6 users
Women, Fire and Dangerous Things
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Trask's Historical Linguistics
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A History of the Spanish Language
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The Languages of Native North America
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Handbook of the International Phonetic Association
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The Sounds of the World's Languages
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Introductory Phonology
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Speech and Language Processing
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When Languages Die
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Linguistics
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Introducing Phonology
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Romance Languages
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In the Land of Invented Languages
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The World's Writing Systems
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Core Syntax
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A Practical Introduction to Phonetics
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The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the...
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Investigations in Universal Grammar
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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
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English with an Accent
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The atoms of language
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IN SEARCH OF THE INDO-EUROPEANS
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Breaking the Maya Code
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Accents of English
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Language Typology and Syntactic Description
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A Student's Introduction to English Grammar
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
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Dying Words
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Constructing a Language
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Because Internet
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Writing Systems
4 users
Cognitive Linguistics
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Bastard Tongues
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage
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Words on the Move
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Linguistics
4 users
Mathematical Methods in Linguistics
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth
3 users
The First Word
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The Art of Language Invention
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Linguistics
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Music, Language, and the Brain
3 users
The Bantu languages
3 users
Language Universals and Linguistic Typology
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Searching for Aboriginal Languages
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Elements of acoustic phonetics
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English Verb Classes and Alternations
3 users
Linguistic Fieldwork
3 users
Historical Linguistics
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The Mother Tongue
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The Loom of Language
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The Symbolic Species
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A History of the French Language
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The History of Basque
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Quantitative Corpus Linguistics with R
3 users
Patterns In The Mind
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A Guide to Old English
3 users
Mandarin Chinese
3 users
Accents of English
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Historical linguistics
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The Languages of Japan
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Understanding Minimalism
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Minimalist syntax
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Introduction to Government and Binding Theory
3 users
Linguistics
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Talkin and Testifyin
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A History of the Japanese Language
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The Study of Language
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An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics
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The Everyday Language of White Racism
3 users
The origins and development of the English language
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Wordcrime
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English Accents and Dialects
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The Stories of English
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The Adventure of English
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Mathematical Linguistics
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Introducing Linguistics
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The atlas of North American English
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The Green Book of Language Revitalization in Practice
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