Start with high-confidence pragmatics books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Language Development
Robert E. Owens
Language in Thought and Action
S.I. Hayakawa, Alan R. Hayakawa
Linguistics and Philosophy
Etienne Gilson
Dynamic Syntax
Ruth Kempson, Wilfried Meyer-Viol
A Course in Minimalist Syntax
Howard Lasnik, Juan Uriagereka
Optimality Theory
Diana Archangeli, Terence Langendoen
Pragmatics
Jacob L. Mey
Move! a Minimalist Theory of Construal
Norbert Hornstein
Syntactical Mechanics
Bruce A. McMenomy
Syntax
Andrew Carnie
Morphology
Jeffrey P. Punske
Thinking Syntactically
Liliane Haegeman
Introduction to Pragmatics
Betty J. Birner
Cognitive Linguistics and Humor Research
Geert Brône, Kurt Feyaerts
The Semantics of Derivational Morphology
Sven Kotowski, Ingo Plag
English As a Lingua Franca Among Adolescents
Katharina Beuter
