Start with high-confidence syntax books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
The Morphology of Biblical Greek
William D. Mounce
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
Word Knowledge and Word Usage
Vito Pirrelli, Ingo Plag
The Semantics of Derivational Morphology
Sven Kotowski, Ingo Plag
A Concise Grammar of the Older Runic Inscriptions
Elmer H. Antonsen
Languages in Contact
Uriel Weinreich
