What are some good resources in beginning linguistics?
I have a fondness for the well-known textbook An Introduction to Language by Victoria Fromkin and Robert Rodman. I also like April MS McMahon’s Understanding Language Change for an introduction to historical linguistics. (dos) I have a suggestion for a book I found particularly helpful. The book in question is The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, Second Edition, by David Crystal. It covers a wide variety of subjects from noun cases, language statistics, articulation to even language dysfunctions and acquisition.