OA linguistics textbooks
Here are some free textbooks that can be used in class. Enjoy!
Syntax
My Syntax made easy, very basic syntax for beginners (with an Italian and an Arabic version)
Syntax made easy. How to read (and draw) syntactic trees​
Sintassi semplice. Come leggere (e disegnare) i diagrammi ad albero
أساسيات التركيب الميسّرSyntax Made Easy, Arabic version
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Mike Barrie's Generative Syntax textbook series
Barrie, Michael. 2024
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Kyle Johnson. 2024. Transformational grammar. UMass
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Mark Newson et al. 2004. Basic English syntax with exercises.
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Mary Dalrymple (ed.). 2023. Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar. LangSciPress
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Stefan Müller. 2023. Grammatical theory: From transformational grammar to constraint-based approaches. (Textbooks in Language Sciences 1). Berlin: Language Science
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Computational linguistics
Lelia Glass, Markus Dickinson, Chris Brew, Detmar Meurers. 2024. Language and computers. (Textbooks in Language Sciences 14). Berlin: Language Science Press.
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Daniel Jurafsky & James H. Martin. 2025. Speech and Language Processing An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition with Language Models Third Edition draft.
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Corpus linguistics
Anatol Stefanowitsch. 2020. Corpus linguistics: A guide to the methodology. (Textbooks in Language Sciences 7). Berlin: Language Science Press.
Descriptive linguistics
John Lynch, 1998. Pacific languages: an introduction. UHP.
Fieldwork
Felicity Meakins, Jennifer Green, Myfany Turpin. 2018. Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork. Routledge.
General linguistics
Catherine Anderson; Bronwyn Bjorkman; Derek Denis; Julianne Doner; Margaret Grant; Nathan Sanders; and Ai Taniguch. 2022. Essentials of Linguistics, 2nd edition.
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Bruce Hayes. 2021. Introductory Linguistics
Historical linguistics
Míša Hejná & George Walkden. 2022. A history of English. (Textbooks in Language Sciences 9). Berlin: Language Science Press.
History of Linguistics
Stephen R. Anderson. 2021. Phonology in the Twentieth Century : Second edition, revised and expanded. (History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences 5). Berlin: Language Science Press.
Language Revitalization
Justyna Olko and Julia Sallabank. 2021. Revitalizing Endangered Languages. CUP
Phonology
Marc van Oostendorp's phonology textbook series
​Van Oostendorp, Marc. 2025
Morphology and Syntax
​​Doner, Julianne. 2025. The Linguistics Analysis of Word and Sentence Structures. Winnipeg: Department of Linguistics, University of Manitoba.
Quantitative methods and statistics
Hugo Quené & Huub van der Bergh. 2024. Quantitative methods and statistics
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Morgan Sonderegger. 2022. Regression Modeling for Linguistic Data. McGill
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