About the Linguistics Collection

Find out more about the collection, including strengths, locations, and formats.

Collection Description
Electronic Journals
New Acquisitions
Purchase Recommendation Form

Collection Description

The Library collects materials in virtually all languages of the world. The Library collects at a research level in the academic subfields emphasized in the Linguistics Department: syntax, semantics, morphology, pragmatics, phonology, diachronic linguistics, language variation, linguistic reconstruction, typology and language universals, lexicology, as well as cognitive science, sociolinguistics, comparative and historical linguistics and computational linguistics. For the study of linguistics, the Library has special strengths in American Indian, African, Asian and Indo-European languages. The Library collects less comprehensively in the areas of language translation, applied linguistics (second language acquisition, language instruction and teaching English as a Second Language). The Library collects few introductory language textbooks, but does collect grammars and dictionaries.
 
Linguistics reference materials are kept in the Reference Center (Doe Library, Floor 2). The major part of the collection is located in the Gardner (MAIN) Stacks, with additional materials in the Moffitt (UNDE, core English-language), Education Psychology (cognitive linguistics, language acquisition and pedagogy), and Anthropology (Linguistic Anthropology) Libraries. Some materials, particularly in the area of Western Americana, are housed in the Bancroft Library, as are manuscript and archival collections. The Berkeley Language Center also houses a multimedia collection for the study of second language.

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Electronic Journals

Journals in electronic form, available online either individually or as part of a larger collection. E-Journals only available for the Berkeley campus are listed in Pathfinder. The California Digital Library (CDL) maintains a list of e-journals available to all UC libraries.

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New Acquisitions

Monthly lists of new acquisitions in a given subject area.

October 2006 (PDF)
September 2006 (PDF)
August 2006 (PDF)
July 2006 (PDF)
June 2006 (PDF)
May 2006 (PDF)

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Purchase Recommendation Form

If you'd like to recommend an item to be added to the collection, please use the Purchase Recommendation Form.

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