Textbooks for the course, available at the BU Bookstore, Barnes and Noble*
REQUIRED	Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, and Nina Hyams, An Introduction to Language. New York: Harcourt Brace College Publishers. Eighth Edition (new!) 2007. ISBN 1-4130-1773-8. List price: $97.95. BU Bookstore (Barnes & Noble) price is expected to be $ 100.70. You will find this less expensively over the Internet. Be sure to get the latest edition.
REQUIRED	The Ohio State University Department of Linguistics, Language Files: Materials for an Introduction to Language and Linguistics. Ohio State University Press. Tenth Edition (new!) 2007. ISBN 978-0814251638. List price is $40.95. It will probably cost $ 45.50 (new) at the BU Bookstore. You will find it less expensively on the WWW.
	Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language. Perennial (HarperCollins). 2000. ISBN 0-06-095833-2. List price $15.95. It will cost $ 15.00 at the BU Bookstore ( subject to change). RECOMMENDED
*Note that you can reserve your books on-line! which is not a bad idea, because, although enough books were ordered for students in this class, these books are very popular, and other people tend to buy them, causing shortages... You can also compare prices at http://www.bookhq.com/ or http://www.chambal.com/ or other sites on the WWW. You *will* find these books less expensively on the Internet.