History of Science and Linguistics

    Greene, John. 1974.  The history of science and the history of linguistics. In Hymes (ed.), Studies in the history of Linguistics: Traditions and paradigms, 487-501.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Panini and Indian Linguistics

    Kiparsky, Paul.  1995.  Paninian linguistics.  In Koerner and Asher (eds.), Concise history of the language sciences:  From the Sumerians to the cognitivists, 59-65.  New York: Pergamon

Classical Linguistics – Greece and Rome

    Taylor, Daniel. 1995.  Classical linguistics: An overview.  In Koerner and Asher (eds.), Concise history of the language sciences:  From the Sumerians to the cognitivists, 83-90.  New York: Pergamon. 

Medieval Linguistics

    Covington, Michael.  1986.  Grammatical theory in the Middle Ages.  In Bynon and Palmer (eds.), Studies in the history of Western Linguistics in honour of R. H. Robins, 23-42.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

17-18th c. Linguistics

    Simone, Raffaele.  1994.  The early modern period.  In Lepschy (ed.), History of linguistics, 149-176, 203-236.  London and New York: Longman. 
   Jones, Sir William.  1786.  Excerpts from Works I with commentary by Winfred Lehmann.  In Lehmann (ed.), A reader in nineteenth-century historical Indo-European linguistics, 7-20.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 

19th c. Linguistics to Saussure

     Bopp, Franz.  1816.  Excerpts from Über die Conjugationssystem der Sanskritsprache, translation with commentary by Winfred Lehmann.  In Lehmann (ed.), A reader in nineteenth-century historical Indo-European linguistics, 38-45.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 
    Kiparsky, Paul.  1974.  From paleogrammarians to neogrammarians.  In Hymes (ed.), Studies in the history of Linguistics: Traditions and paradigms, 331-345.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
     Grimm, Jacob.  1893.  Excerpts from Deutsche Grammatik, translation with commentary by Winfred Lehmann.  In Lehmann (ed.), A reader in nineteenth-century historical Indo-European linguistics, 46-60.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 
    Verner, Karl.  1875.  Excerpts from "Eine Ausnahme der estern Lautverschiebung", translation with commentary by Winfred Lehmann.  In Lehmann (ed.), A reader in nineteenth-century historical Indo-European linguistics, 132-163.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 

Saussure

    Joseph, John.  1995.  Saussurean tradition in linguistics.  In Koerner and Asher (eds.), Concise history of the language sciences:  From the Sumerians to the cognitivists, 233-239.  New York: Pergamon.
    Saussure, Ferdinand de.  1916. Cours de linguistique générale, edited by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye with the collaboration of Albert Riedlinger.  Translation 1966 by Wade Baskin.  New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. (pp. 1-23, 65-78, 101-122)

Prague School

    Sampson, Geoffrey.  1980.  Functional linguistics: The Prague School.  Chapter in Sampson, Schools of linguistics, 103-129.  Stanford: Stanford University Press. 

Hjelmslev and the Copenhagen School

    Fudge, Erik.  1995.  The Glossematic School of linguistics.  In Koerner and Asher (eds.), Concise history of the language sciences:  From the Sumerians to the cognitivists, 262-267.  New York: Pergamon.
    Hjelmslev, Louis.  1948.  Structural analysis of language.  Studia Linguistica 1.69-78.  Reprinted in Essais linguistiques, 27-35.  Copenhague: Nordisk Sprog-og Kulturforlag.

Firth and the London School

    Palmer, Frank. R. 1995.  Firth and the London School of linguistics.  In Koerner and Asher (eds.), Concise history of the language sciences:  From the Sumerians to the cognitivists, 268-272.  New York: Pergamon.
    Halliday, Michael A. K.  1995.  Systemic theory.  In Koerner and Asher (eds.), Concise history of the language sciences:  From the Sumerians to the cognitivists, 272-275.  New York: Pergamon.

American Structural Linguistics

    Fought, John.  1995.  American structuralism.  In Koerner and Asher (eds.), Concise history of the language sciences:  From the Sumerians to the cognitivists, 295-306.  New York: Pergamon.
    Stuart, C.I.J.M. 1963.  Franz Boas and the goals of linguistic theory.  Foreword to Franz Boas' Introduction to the handbook of American Indian languages, vii-xiv.  Reprinted by Georgetown University Press (Washington, D.C.).  Boas' work originally appeared in 1911, in bulletin 40, part 1, Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology. 
    Sapir, Edward.  1933.  The psychological reality of phonemes.  Reprinted in Mandelbaum (ed.), 1949, Selected writings of Edward Sapir in language, culture, and personality, 46-59.  Berkeley: University of California Press.
    Sampson, Geoffrey.  1980.  The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Chapter in Sampson, Schools of linguistics, 81-102.  Stanford: Stanford University Press. 

On the Eve of Generative Grammar

    Newmeyer, Frederick.  1986.  The state of American linguistics in the mid 50s.  Chapter in Newmeyer, Linguistic theory in America , 1-15.  New York: Academic Press.
    Murray, Stephen.  1980.  Gatekeepers and the "Chomskian revolution".  Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 16.73-88.
    Culicover, Peter, and Ray Jackendoff. To appear. Chapter 2: The logical structure of syntactic theory, pp. 1-12, in Syntax Made Simple(r). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

Early Generative Grammar

    Harlow, Stephen.  1995.  Evolution of transformational grammar.  In Koerner and Asher (eds.), Concise history of the language sciences:  From the Sumerians to the cognitivists, 326-342.  New York: Pergamon.
    Newmeyer, Frederick.  1986b.  The opposition to autonomous linguistics.  Chapter in Newmeyer, The politics of linguistics, 101-126.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 
    Newmeyer, Frederick.  1986a.  From Syntactic structures to Aspects of the theory of syntax.  Chapter in Newmeyer, Linguistic theory in America , 55-80.  New York: Academic Press.
    Newmeyer, Frederick.  1986c.  Has there been a 'Chomskyan revolution' in linguistics?  Language 62.1-18.

Generative Semantics and the Linguistic Wars

    McCawley, James.  1995.  Generative semantics.  In Koerner and Asher (eds.), Concise history of the language sciences:  From the Sumerians to the cognitivists, 343-347.  New York: Pergamon.
    Newmeyer, Frederick.  1996.  The steps to generative semantics.  Chapter in Newmeyer, Generative linguistics: A historical perspective, 101-113.  New York: Routledge.
    Newmeyer, Frederick.  1996.  The end of generative semantics.  Chapter in Newmeyer, Generative linguistics: A historical perspective, 113-126.  New York: Routledge.
    Huck, Geoffrey, and John Goldsmith.  1995.  Gaps in the paradigm.  Chapter in Huck and Goldsmith, Ideology and linguistic theory: Noam Chomsky and the deep structure debates, 5-58.  New York: Routledge. 

The Further Development of Generative Grammar

    Newmeyer, Frederick.  1986a.  The extended standard theory.  Chapter in Newmeyer, Linguistic theory in America , 139-169.  New York: Academic Press.
    Newmeyer, Frederick.  1986a.  The new consensus and the new rift in generative syntax.  Chapter in Newmeyer, Linguistic theory in America , 171-196.  New York: Academic Press.
    Newmeyer, Frederick.  1986a.  Current approaches to syntax.  Chapter in Newmeyer, Linguistic theory in America , 197-229.  New York: Academic Press.
    Newmeyer, Frederick.  1986c.  Has there been a 'Chomskyan revolution' in linguistics?  Language 62.1-18.
    Culicover, Peter, and Ray Jackendoff. To appear. Chapter 2: The logical structure of syntactic theory, pp. 13-45, in Syntax Made Simple(r). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

Current issues I:  Optimality Theory

    McCarthy, John J.  2002.  The core of Optimality Theory.  In McCarthy, A thematic guide to Optimality Theory, 3-31.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 
    McCarthy, John J.  2002.  The context of Optimality Theory.  In McCarthy, A thematic guide to Optimality Theory, 48-65.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 
    Newmeyer, Frederick.  2001.  Optimality and functionality: A critique of functionally-based optimality-theoretic syntax.  Unpublished ms., University of Washington. 

Current issues II:  Functionalism vs. Formalism

    Noonan, Michael.  1999.  Non-structuralist syntax.  In Darnell et al. (eds.), Functionalism and formalism in linguistics.  Volume I: General papers, 13-31.  Amsterdam, John Benjamins Publishing Company. 
    Lasnik, Howard.  1999.  On the locality of movement.  In Darnell et al. (eds.), Functionalism and formalism in linguistics.  Volume I: General papers, 33-54.  Amsterdam, John Benjamins Publishing Company. 
    Newmeyer, Frederick.  1999.  Some remarks on the functionalist-formalist controversy in linguistics.  In Darnell et al. (eds.), Functionalism and formalism in linguistics.  Volume I: General papers, 469-486.  Amsterdam, John Benjamins Publishing Company. 
    Newmeyer, Frederick.  1994.  A note on Chomsky on form and function.  Journal of Linguistics 30.245-251. 
    Newmeyer, Frederick.  2001.  Formal linguistics and functional explanation: Bridging the gap.  University of South Carolina Linguistics Colloquium (April 6, 2001).  Videotape and handout. 

Current issues III:  The Minimalist Program

    Chomsky, Noam.  2000.  New horizons in the study of language.  Chapter in Chomsky, New horizons in the study of language and mind, 3-18.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    Martin, Roger, and Juan Uriagereka.  2000.  Some possible foundations of the minimalist program.  In Martin, et al. (eds.), Step by step: Essays on minimalist syntax in honor of Howard Lasnik, 1-29.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
    Newmeyer, Frederick.  2001.  Against triggered movement.  Unpublished ms., University of Washington.
    Culicover, Peter, and Ray Jackendoff. To appear. Chapter 2: The logical structure of syntactic theory, pp. 45-65, in Syntax Made Simple(r). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

Anderson, Stephen.  1985.  Phonology in the twentieth century: Theories of rules and theories of representations.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 

Andresen, Julie Tetel.  1990.  Linguistics in America 1769-1924.  New York: Routledge.

Archangeli, Diana, and Terence Langendoen, eds..  1997.  Optimality theory: An overview.  Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. 

Barsky, Robert.  1997.  Noam Chomsky: A life of dissent.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Bloomfield, Leonard.  1933.  Language.  New York: Henry Holt and Company.

Boas, Franz. 1911.  Introduction to the handbook of American Indian languages.  Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology, bulletin 40, part 1. Reprinted 1963, Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. 

Chomsky, Noam.  1957.  Syntactic structures.  The Hague: Mouton and Company.

Chomsky, Noam.  1965.  Aspects of the theory of syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Chomsky, Noam.  1986.  Knowledge of language: Its nature, origin and use.  New York: Praeger.

Chomsky, Noam.  2000.  New horizons in the study of language and mind.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Darnell, Michael, et al., eds..  1999.  Functionalism and formalism in linguistics.  Volume I: General papers.  Amsterdam, John Benjamins Publishing Company. 

George, Alexander ed.  Reflections on Chomsky.  Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 

Harris, Randy.  1993.  The linguistic wars.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Harris, Zelig.  1962.  String analysis of sentence structure.  The Hague: Mouton and Company.

Huck, Geoffrey, and John Goldsmith.  1995.  Ideology and linguistic theory: Noam Chomsky and the deep structure debates.  New York: Routledge. 

Hymes, Dell, ed..  1974.  Studies in the history of Linguistics: Traditions and paradigms.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Ivic, Milka.  1965.  Trends in Linguistics.  The Hague: Mouton and Company.

Joos, Martin, ed..  1966.  Readings in linguistics I: The development of descriptive linguistics in America 1925-1956 (4th edition).  Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 

Lehmann, Winfred, ed..  1967.  A reader in nineteenth-century historical Indo-European linguistics.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 

Lyons, John.  1968.  Introduction to theoretical linguistics.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lyons, John.  1970.  Chomsky. London: William Collins and Company.

Martin, Roger, et al., eds..  2000.  Step by step: Essays on minimalist syntax in honor of Howard Lasnik.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

McCawley, James.  1982.  Thirty million theories of grammar.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 

Newmeyer, Frederick.  1986a. Linguistic theory in America (2nd edition).  New York: Academic Press.

Newmeyer, Frederick.  1986b.  The politics of linguistics.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 

Newmeyer, Frederick, ed..  1988.  Linguistics: The Cambridge survey.  Volume I.  Linguistic theory: Foundations.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

Newmeyer, Frederick.  1996.  Generative linguistics: A historical perspective.  New York: Routledge.

Robins, Robert H.  1997.  A short history of linguistics.  London and New York: Longman.

Sampson, Geoffrey.  1980.  Schools of linguistics.  Stanford: Stanford University Press. 

Sapir, Edward.  1921.  Language: An introduction to the study of speech.  New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company.

Saussure, Ferdinand de.  1916. Cours de linguistique générale, publié par Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye avec la collaboration de Albert Riedlinger.  Paris: Payot. 

Tesar, Bruce, and Paul Smolensky.  2000.  Learnability in optimality theory.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Trubetskoy, N. S.  1969.  Principles of Phonology (translated by Christiane Baltax from Grundzüge der Phonologie, 1958).  Berkeley: University of California Press.

Whorf, Benjamin Lee.  1956.  Language, thought, and reality (ed. by John Carroll).  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Additional readings pertaining to sections of the syllabus:
 
• History of Science and Linguistics
 
    Pullum, Geoffrey.  1991.  A memo from the vice chancellor.  Chapter in Pullum, The great Eskimo vocabulary hoax, 182-189.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
 
• Panini and Indian Linguistics

    Cardona, George.  1994.  Indian linguistics.  In Lepschy (ed.), History of linguistics, Volume I: The Eastern traditions, 25-60.  New York: Longman. 
    Staal, Fritz.  1995.  Indian theories of meaning.  In Koerner and Asher (eds.), Concise history of the language sciences:  From the Sumerians to the cognitivists, 66-71.  New York: Pergamon.
    Deshpande, Madhav. 1995.  Ancient Indian phonetics.  In Koerner and Asher (eds.), Concise history of the language sciences:  From the Sumerians to the cognitivists, 72-77.  New York: Pergamon. 
On morphological "blocking" [Kiparsky 1995:63]:
    Aronoff, Mark.  1976.  Word formation in generative Grammar.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
On (non-)derivation of nominalizations [Kiparsky 1995:63]:
    Chomsky, Noam.  1970.  Remarks on nominalizations.  In Jacobs and Rosenbaum (eds.), Readings in English transformational grammar, 184-221.

• Classical Linguistics – Greece and Rome

    Robins, Robert H.  1997.  Greece.  Chapter in Robins, A short history of linguistics, 12-57.  London and New York: Longman.
    Householder, Fred W.  1995.  Aristotle and the Stoics on language.  In Koerner and Asher (eds.), Concise history of the language sciences:  From the Sumerians to the cognitivists, 90-93.  New York: Pergamon. 

• 19th c. Linguistics to Saussure

    Rask, Rasmus.  1818.  Excerpts from "Undersøgelse", translation with commentary by Winfred Lehmann.  In Lehmann (ed.), A reader in nineteenth-century historical Indo-European linguistics, 29-37.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 
    Percival, W. Kieth.  1974.  Rask's view of linguistic development and phonetic correspondences.  In Hymes (ed.), Studies in the history of Linguistics: Traditions and paradigms, 307-314.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Early Generative Grammar

    Newmeyer, Frederick.  1986a.  The Chomskyan revolution.  Chapter in Newmeyer, Linguistic theory in America , 17-53.  New York: Academic Press.

• Generative Semantics and the Linguistic Wars

    Huck, Geoffrey, and John Goldsmith.  1995.  What happened to generative semantics?  Chapter in Huck and Goldsmith, Ideology and linguistic theory: Noam Chomsky and the deep structure debates, 79-89.  New York: Routledge. 
    Newmeyer, Frederick.  1996.  Review of Geoffrey J. Huck and John A. Goldsmith, Ideology and linguistic theory: Noam Chomsky and the deep structure debates.  Chapter in Newmeyer, Generative linguistics: A historical perspective, 127-137.  New York: Routledge.

• The Further Development of Generative Grammar

    Newmeyer, Frederick.  1976.  Relational grammar and autonomous syntax.  CLS 12.506-515.

• Current issues II:  Optimality Theory
 
    Tesar, Bruce, and Paul Smolensky.  2000. Learnability in optimality theory.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.  (pp. 1-32) (click here for a review by Larry LaFond, Southern Illinois U)
    Legendre, Geraldine, Jane Grimshaw, and Sten Vikner, eds.  2001.  Optimality-theoretic syntax.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 
      
• Current issues III:  The Minimalist Program
 
    Hornstein, Norbert.  2001.  Move! A Minimalist Theory of Construal.  Oxford, Blackwell.  (click here for a review by Dan Hall, U of Toronto)
    Johnson,David, and Shalom Lappin.  1997.  A Critique of the Minimalist Program.  Linguistics and Philosophy 20.273-333.