Summer Reading Lists

1. Research mate in African linguistics: focus on Cameroon a fieldworker's tool for deciphering the stories Cameroonian languages have to tell; in honor of Professor Larry N. Hyman
    
2. Sprachmaschinen: Eine Philosophie der künstlichen Intelligenz by Roberto Simanowski 
    
3. A mind for language: an introduction to the innateness debate by Harry van der Hulst
    
4. Wordslut by Amanda Montell
    
5. The Art Language Invention by David J. Peterson
    
6. Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang
    
7. Science Fictions by Stuart J. Ritchie [scientific reading]
    
8. Introducing Linguistics: A Graphic Guide by Bill Mayblin and Robert L. Trask
    
9. Inventing languages: A practical introduction by Carolina González
    
10. Algospeak: how social media is transforming the future of language by Adam Aleksic
     
11. Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland by Martha Barnette
     
12. Der Urknall unserer Sprache by Laura Spinney
     
13. Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages by Guy Deutscher
     
14. Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch
     
15. Breaking the Bias of English: How English Disempowers Women and How to Fix It in Only Six Words! by Vivian R. Probst

• About Machine Learning, LLMS and more: https://vinija.ai/
   
• A way with words: https://waywordradio.org/

• Large Language Model Visualization: https://bbycroft.net/llm
   
• An Introduction to the Vocal Organs – With MRI video: https://youtu.be/SVKR3ESdAk8?si=IQxvqZeN9to0NAu7

1. The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek by Andrea Marcolongo
    
2. Signs of Civilisation: How punctuation changed history by  Bård Borch Michalsen
    
3. Atlas der vom Aussterben bedrohten Sprachen, von Arnfrid Schenk, Stefan Schnell
    
4. The AI Con, by Emily Bender and Alex Hanna
    
5. Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape by Manchan Magan
    
6. Babel by R. F. Kuang
    
7. Exercises in Style (Stilübungen) by Raymond Queneau
    
8. The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe
    
9. Research Mates in African Linguistics edited by Ngessimo M. Mutaka and Sammy B. Chumbow

• Arrival (2016)
• Am Anfang war das Wort (Fry's Planet Word) (2011)
• Die Glücklichen des Amazonas (The Language of Happiness) (2012)
• The Linguists (2008)
• Is the man who is tall happy? (2013)
• My beautiful broken brain (2014)
• The King’s Speech (2010)

• Sprachpfade
• tuwort
• Because Language
• A Language I Love Is…

• Heinrich Heine in your mother tongue
• Levy, Kim, and Fox. 2025. The Science of Language in the Era of Generative AI
• The love of books (How a complete library was saved during the war in Sarajevo)

1. Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World (Irene Vallejo)
    
2. The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams)
    
3. Is that a Fish in your ear? Translation the Meaning of Everything (David Bellos)
    
4. The Penguin Book of Oulipo (Edited by Philip Terry) 
    
5. Endangered Alphabets, an Essay on writing (Tim Brookes)
    
6. Poems from the Edge of Extinction: The Beautiful New Treasury of Poetry in Endangered Languages, in Association with the National Poetry Library
    
7. Just a Phrase I’m going Through, My life in language (David Crystal)
    
8. The language instinct (Steven Pinker)
    
9. Musicophilia (Oliver Sacks)
    
10. Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes 
     
11. Through the Language Glass (Guy Deutscher)
     available at ULB: https://katalog.ulb.hhu.de/Record/990023722890206443 and https://katalog.ulb.hhu.de/Record/990023885400206443
12. The Unfolding of Language (Guy Deutscher)
     
13. Language Myths (Laurie Bauer & Trudgill)
     
14. Heterogenia Linguistico: An Introduction to Interspecies Linguistics (Seno Salt)
     
15. The Linguistics Wars (Randy Allen Harris) 
     
16. The Semantics of Murder (Aifric Campbell)
     
17. The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy (John DeFrancis)
     
18. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: An edition printed in the International Phonetic Alphabet (Lewis Carroll, transcribed by Michael Everson)
     
19. The Awful German Language (Mark Twain) 
     
20. Babel (Gaston Durren)

• https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/
• https://jalammar.github.io
• https://agustinus.kristia.de/blog/ 

• Arrival
• Still Alice – Mein Leben ohne Gestern
• Hot Skull (Sicak kafa)
• My Fair Lady

• Lingthusiasm

• languagejones
• NativLang
• etymology_nerd 

Für Computerlinguistik:

• AI Coffee Break with Letitia
• Yannic Kilcher
• Serrano Academy