The
Science of Words, by George Miller
The
Power of Babel, by John McWhorter
The
Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
Introduction
to Language by Fromkin, Rodman and Hyams
Contemporary
Linguistics by O'Grady et al.
Linguistics
by Akmajian, Demers, Farmer and Harnish
An Invitation
to Cognitive Science: Language by Gleitman and Liberman.