If you liked Generative linguistics by Frederick J. Newmeyer, start with English aspectual verbs (1975), The politics of linguistics (1986), and Language Form and Language Function Language Speech and Communication (2000). These recommendations are drawn from the same author, shared genres, and reader overlap on BookOrb.

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  1. 1 English aspectual verbs 1975 · 96 pages · Frederick J. Newmeyer · Same author
  2. 2 The politics of linguistics 1986 · 171 pages · Frederick J. Newmeyer · Same author
  3. 3 Language Form and Language Function Language Speech and Communication 2000 · 428 pages · Frederick J. Newmeyer · Same author
  4. 4 Language form and language function 1998 · 428 pages · Frederick J. Newmeyer · Same author
  5. 5 Linguistics The Cambridge Survey 1989 · 364 pages · Frederick J. Newmeyer · Same author
  6. 6 American Linguistics in Transition 2022 · 432 pages · Frederick J. Newmeyer · Same author
  7. 7 Linguistics : the Cambridge Survey : Volume 4, Language 2012 · Frederick J. Newmeyer · Same author
  8. 8 Grammatical theory, its limits and its possibilities 1983 · 192 pages · Frederick J. Newmeyer · Same author
  9. 9 Possible and probable languages 2005 · 278 pages · Frederick J. Newmeyer · Same author
  10. 10 Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics : Volume I 1999 · 486 pages · Michael Darnell, Edith A. Moravcsik, Frederick J. Newmeyer, Kathleen Wheatley · Same author
  11. 11 Measuring Grammatical Complexity 2014 · 387 pages · Frederick J. Newmeyer, Laurel B. Preston · Same author
  12. 12 Linguistic Theory in America 1980 · 320 pages · Frederick J. Newmeyer · Same author

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BookOrb recommends English aspectual verbs (1975), The politics of linguistics (1986), Language Form and Language Function Language Speech and Communication (2000), Language form and language function (1998), and Linguistics The Cambridge Survey (1989).

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Generative linguistics is by Frederick J. Newmeyer.