Today we take some time to suggest a few books that conlangers should check out.

Linguistics Books

Heine, B., & Kuteva, T. (2002). World lexicon of grammaticalization . Cambridge University Press.

. Cambridge University Press. Bybee, J., Perkins, R., & Pagliuca, W. (1994). The evolution of grammar: Tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world . University of Chicago Press.

Dixon, R. M. (2012). Basic Linguistic Theory (Volumes 2 and 3). Oxford University Press.

The Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics (“Red Books”) and the Oxford Linguistics collection. (Somehow we mixed these two together)

Not Quite Linguistics

Watkins, C. (1995). How to kill a dragon: aspects of Indo-European poetics (Vol. 11). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Florian, C. (1996). The Blackwell encyclopedia of writing systems. Oxford: Blackwell, 174.

Grammars of Inspiration and Magnificence

Any Germanic grammar by Henry Sweet and Joseph Wright

Aikhenvald, A. Y. (2008). The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea . OUP Oxford.

Young, R. W., & Morgan, W. (1980). The Navajo language: A grammar and colloquial dictionary (Vol. 3). University of New Mexico Press.

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