General

• Meibauer, Jörg [and others]: Introduction to German Linguistics. 2nd ed. Stuttgart [et al:] Metzler 2007.
• Linke, Angelika /Nussbaumer, Markus/Portmann, Paul R.: Academic records in linguistics. 5th ed. Tübingen (Niemeyer, series "Germanistische Linguistik RGL" No. 121) 2004.

Original texts

• Hoffmann, Ludger (ed.): Linguistics. A reader. 2nd ed. Berlin [et al.]: de Gruyter 2000.

General

• Bartsch, Renate / Vennemann, Theo: Fundamentals of language theory. A linguistic introduction. Tübingen: Niemeyer 1982.

Markedness/naturalness theory

• Wurzel, Wolfgang U.: Inflectional morphology and naturalness. A contribution to morphological theorising. 2nd ed. Berlin: Akademie-Verl. 2001.

Valence theory

• Ágel, Vilmos: Valence theory. Tübingen: Narr 2000.

• Volli, Ugo: Semiotics. An introduction to its basic concepts. Tübingen [and others]: Francke 2002.

Phonology

• Pompino-Marschall, Bernd: Introduction to phonetics. 2nd ed. Berlin [et al.]: de Gruyter 2003.
• Eisenberg, Peter: Grundriss der deutschen Grammatik. Vol. 1: The word. 3rd ed. Stuttgart [et al:] Metzler 2006.

Inflectional morphology

• Eisenberg, Peter: Grundriss der deutschen Grammatik. Vol. 1: The word. 3rd ed. Stuttgart [et al:] Metzler 2006.

Word formation morphology

• Eisenberg, Peter: Grundriss der deutschen Grammatik. Vol. 1: The word. 3rd ed. Stuttgart [et al:] Metzler 2006.
• Fleischer, Wolfgang / Barz, Irmhild: Wortbildung der deutschen Gegenwartssprache. 2nd ed. Tübingen: Niemeyer 1995.
• Erben, Johannes: Einführung in die deutsche Wortbildungslehre. 5th ed. Berlin: Schmidt 2006.

Syntax

• Eisenberg, Peter: Grundriss der deutschen Grammatik. Vol. 2: The sentence. 3rd ed. Stuttgart [et al:] Metzler 2006.
• Zifonun, Gisela / Hoffmann, Ludger / Strecker, Bruno: Grammatik der deutschen Sprache. 3 vols. Berlin [et al.]: de Gruyter 1997.
• Dürscheid, Christa: Syntax. Fundamentals and theories. 4th ed. Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht 2007.

Graphematics

• Eisenberg, Peter: Grundriss der deutschen Grammatik. Vol. 1: The word. 3rd ed. Stuttgart [et al:] Metzler 2006.
• Fuhrhop, Nanna: Orthography. 3rd ed. Heidelberg: Winter 2009.

General

• Nübling, Damaris [and others]: Historical Linguistics of German. An introduction to the principles of language change. Tübingen: Narr 2006.
• Bergmann, Rolf / Pauly, Peter / Moulin-Fankhänel, Claudine: Old and Middle High German. Workbook on the grammar of the older German language stages and on German language history. 6th ed. Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht 2004.
• Paul, Hermann: Principles of language history. 10th ed. Tübingen: Niemeyer 1995.

Categorised in terms of cultural history

• Polenz, Peter von: German Sprachgeschichte vom Spätmittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. 3 vols. 2nd ed. Berlin: de Gruyter 1994-2000.

pragmatically

• Schlieben-Lange, Brigitte: Traditions of Speaking. Elements of a pragmatic historiography of language. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1983.
• Kilian, Jörg: Historical dialogue research. An introduction. Tübingen: Niemeyer 2005.

Language change theory

• Keller, Rudi: Language change. The invisible hand in language. 3rd ed. Tübingen Francke 2003.
• Wurzel, Wolfgang U.: Inflectional morphology and naturalness. A contribution to morphological theorising. 2nd ed. Berlin: Akademie-Verl. 2001.

General

• Niebaum, Hermann / Macha, Jürgen: Einführung in die Dialektologie des Deutschen. 2nd ed. Tübingen: Niemeyer 2006.
• Barbour, Stephen / Stevenson, Patrick: Variation in German. Sociolinguistic perspectives. Berlin [et al.]: de Gruyter 1998.

The sociopragmatics of dialects

• Mattheier, Klaus: Pragmatics and sociology of dialects. An introduction to the communicative dialectology of German. Heidelberg: Quelle [u.] Meyer 1980.

Introductions

• Löbner, Sebastian: Semantics. An introduction. Berlin [et al.]: de Gruyter 2003.
  

Text semantics

• Busse, Dietrich: Text interpretation. Linguistic foundations of explicative semantics. Opladen 1992.

Prototype semantics

• Kleiber, Georges: Prototype semantics. An introduction. 2nd ed. Tübingen: Narr 1998.

General

• Levinson, Stephen C.: Pragmatics. Newly translated by Martina Wiese. 3rd ed. Tübingen: Niemeyer 2000.
• Henne, Helmut / Rehbock, Helmut: Einführung in die Gesprächsanalyse. 4th ed. Berlin [et al.]: de Gryuter 2001.
  

Conversation analysis

• Brinker, Klaus / Sager, Sven F.: Linguistische Gesprächsanalyse. 4th ed. Berlin: Schmidt 2006.

Critical discourse analysis

• Jäger, Siegfried: Critical discourse analysis. An introduction. 4th ed. Münster: Unrast 2004.

• Dittmar, Norbert: Basics of sociolinguistics. A workbook with exercises. Tübingen: Niemeyer 1997.

General

• Dietrich, Rainer: Psycholinguistics. 2nd ed. Stuttgart [et al:] Metzler 2007.

Language acquisition

• Szagun, Gisela: Language development in children. Weinheim [and others]: Beltz 2006.

In the Master's module, it is essential to know the various major German grammars, to be able to categorise them and to know what you can look up in which one. I therefore suggest the following as compulsory reading:

3 chapters from Eisenberg (both volumes)

• Eisenberg, Peter (2006): Grundriss der deutschen Grammatik. Volume 1: The word. 3rd edition. Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler.
• Eisenberg, Peter (2006): Grundriss der deutschen Grammatik. Volume 2: The sentence. 3rd edition. Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler.
  

2 chapters from Zifonun et al.

• Zifonun, Gisela / Hoffmann, Ludger / Strecker, Bruno: Grammatik der deutschen Sprache. 3 vols. Berlin [et al.]: de Gruyter 1997.

3 chapters from Duden Grammar

• Duden, Volume 4: Grammar. Edited by the Duden editorial team. Reprint of the 7th ed. Mannheim [et al:] Dudenverlag 2006.

2 chapters from the Paul grammar

• Paul, Hermann: German Grammar. 5 vols. Reprint Tübingen: Niemeyer 1968.

2 chapters from Engel

• Engel, Ulrich: German Grammar. New edition Munich: Iudicium 2004.

2 chapters from Weinrich

• Weinrich, Harald: Text grammar of the German language. 2nd ed. Hildesheim [u.a.]: Olms 2003.

Dealing with cases of doubt-Duden, Hentschel/Weydt, Bussmann, Metzler Lexikon Sprache, Helbig/Buscha

• Duden, vol. 9 Correct and good German. Dictionary of linguistic cases of doubt. Edited by the Duden editorial team. Revised. Reprint of the 6th ed. Mannheim [et al:] Dudenverl. 2007.
• Hentschel, Elke / Weydt, Harald: Handbuch der deutschen Grammatik. 3rd ed. Berlin [et al.]: de Gruyter 2003.
• Bussmann, Hadumod: Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft. 3rd ed. Stuttgart: Kröner 2002.
• Metzler Lexicon of Language. Edited by Helmut Glück. 3rd ed. Stuttgart [et al:] Metzler 2005.
• Helbig, Gerhard / Buscha, Joachim: German Grammar. A handbook for teaching foreigners. Berlin [et al:] Langenscheidt 2001.

Various questions can be addressed during the reading, which can concern both the respective theoretical foundations and the respective treatment of certain linguistic phenomena.

• Henne, Helmut / Rehbock, Helmut: Einführung in die Gesprächsanalyse. 4th ed. Berlin [et al.]: de Gryuter 2001.
• Levinson, Stephen C.: Pragmatics. Newly translated by Martina Wiese. 3rd ed. Tübingen: Niemeyer 2000.
  

Theory of language

• Saussure, Ferdinand de: Basic questions of general linguistics. 3rd ed. Berlin: de Gruyter 2001.
• Bühler, Karl: Language theory. The representational function of language. 3rd ed. Stuttgart: Lucius & Lucius 1999.
• Chomsky, Noam: Aspects of Syntax Theory. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp 1969.

System linguistics

• Paul, Hermann: German Grammar. 5 vols. Reprint Tübingen: Niemeyer 1968.

Word formation

• Henzen, Walter: Deutsche Wortbildung. 3rd ed. Tübingen: Niemeyer 1965.

Diachrony

• Paul, Hermann: Principles of language history. 10th ed. Tübingen: Niemeyer 1995.

Dialectology

• Bach, Adolf: German dialect research. Its paths, results and tasks. 3rd ed. Heidelberg 1969.

Pragmatics

• Austin, John: Zur Theorie der Sprechakte (How to do things with words). Stuttgart: Reclam 1986.
• Searle, John: Speech acts. An essay in the philosophy of language. Reprint Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp 2003.
• Auer, Peter: Linguistic Interaction. An introduction based on 22 classics. Tübingen: Niemeyer 1999.

Psycholinguistics

• Piaget, Jean: Speaking and thinking of the child. Frankfurt a.M.: Ullstein 1983.
• Vygotsky, L.S.: Thinking and speaking. Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer 1977.