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Baker, Mark C. The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammar. New York: Basic Books, 2001.

Deutscher, Guy. The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention. New York: Holt, 2006.

Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1980. Afterword 2003.

Lakoff, George. Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1987.

McWhorter, John. Lexicon Valley. Podcast

---------. "The Viking Conquest of English: and "How the Words of Modern Enlgihs Emerged" in Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths of Language Usage The Great Courses.

Ohio State Univ. Linguistics Department. Language Files 9

Oxford English Dictionary Online Version (accessible throug hpublic and RIT libraries)

Pinker, Stephen. Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Lanaguage. New York: HarperCollins, 1999

Shipley, Joseph T. The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1984.

Sweetser, Eve. From Etymology to Pragmatics: Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Structure. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. 

     Press, 1990.

Wierzbicka, Anna. English: Meaning and Culture. New York and Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2006.

--------. Experience, Evidence, & Sense: The Hidden Cultural Legacy of English. New York and Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2010.

--------. Semantics, Culture, and Cognition: Universal Human Concepts in Culture-Specific Configurations. 

    New York and Oxford: : Oxford University Press, 1992.