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Research Tools for Linguistics
Use these research tools to find information related to Linguistics from sources such as scholarly articles, books and encyclopedias.
Archival Collections and Primary Source Databases
Article Databases and Indexes
Atlases, Maps and Gazetteers
Bibliographies and Subject Guides
Biographical Sources
Book Review Sources
Dictionaries, Thesauri and Quotations
Directories
Dissertation and Thesis Sources
Encyclopedias and Almanacs
Government Information Sources
Handbooks and Manuals
Library and Book Catalogs
Organizations
Web Gateways and Search Engines
Archival Collections and Primary Source Databases
Resources that list, or provide access to, materials typically found in archives and used for primary source research. Examples include manuscripts, diaries, letters, first-hand accounts or documentary sources on a subject, person, event or issue.
Article Databases and Indexes
Listings of articles in journals, magazines, newspapers, etc. Many include abstracts (article summaries). Some include, or link to, the full text of articles.
- Article Databases for Linguistics
- Print Indexes for Linguistics
- Bibliographie Linguistischer Literatur. Frankfurt
am Main : V. Klostermann, 1979-.
Doe Reference Periodical Indexes P 121 .A12 .B53, last ten years
Main Stack P 121 .A12 .B53, earlier years
Indexes publications in general, English, Germanic and Romance linguistics.
- Linguistic
Bibliography for the Years... Utrecht
: Spectrum, 1937-
Doe Reference P 30 .P47
Provides international coverage of all aspects of linguistics, including journal
articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, bibliographies and proceedings.
1994- also available free online from 1997-present.
Atlases, Maps and Gazetteers
Resources that provide maps or tools that you can use to generate maps. Gazetteers are geographical dictionaries, giving information about cities, mountains, rivers, etc.
- Print Resources
- Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in
the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas. Stephen A. Wurm, Peter Muhlhausler,
and Darrell T. Tryon, eds. 2 vols.
Berlin; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1996.
Doe Reference P 130.5 .A87 1996
Maps showing the distribution and spread of languages
and language intercommunication.
- Atlas of the World's Languages. Christopher
Moseley and R.E. Asher, eds. London; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 1994.
Doe
Reference fP 375 .A84 1994 Atlases
General linguistic history, genetic relationships and structural features
of the languages, includes statistical and sociolinguistic information covering
eight regions of the world in the Americas, Asia, Europe, Africa and the
Middle East.
Bibliographies and Subject Guides
Lists of materials in any format (books, articles, videos, web sites, etc.) organized around a common theme or topic. Subcategories as appropriate, i.e., chronological, language, geographic, etc.
- Linguistics: a Guide to the Reference Literature. 2d ed. Anna DeMiller,
ed. Englewood, CO. : Libraries Unlimited, 2000.
Doe Reference P 121 .A12 .D46 2000
Annotated bibliography of reference and information sources including current
and retrospective materials, print and electronic.
Biographical Sources
Information about people, including biographical dictionaries, profiles of people or "Who's Who", personal narratives, and other resources with significant biographical information.
- Electronic Resource Finder
- Print Resources
- Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. Siobhan Chapman and Christopher Routledge, eds. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005.
Doe Reference P107. K49 2005
- Lexicon Grammaticorum : Who's Who in the History
of World Linguistics. Harro Stammerjohann, ed. Tubingen : Niemeyer, 1996.
Doe Reference P 83 .L49 1996 Biographies
- Portraits of Linguists: a Bibliographical Source Book
for the History of Western Linguistics, 1746-1963. Thomas A. Sebeok,
ed. Bristol, England: Thoemmes, 2002.
Main Stack P 83 .P67 2002
Book Review Sources
Listings of book reviews in journals, magazines, newspapers, etc. included in article databases and indexes, book review indexes, or review journals.
Dictionaries, Thesauri and Quotations
General and subject-specific dictionaries in any language, dual language dictionaries, thesauri, dictionaries of quotations, and acronym lists.
- Electronic Resource Finder
- Print Resources
- The Dictionary of Historical and Comparative Linguistics. Robert Lawrence Trask. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000.
Doe Reference P143. T727 2000
- A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. David
Crystal. 5th ed. Malden, MA.
Doe Reference P 29 .C65 2003
- Phonetic Symbol Guide. Geoffrey K. Pullum
and William A. Ladusaw. 2nd ed. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Doe Reference P 226 .P85 1996
Main Stack P 226 .P85 1996
- Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. Hadumod
Bussmann; Gregory Trauth and ed. London; New York : Routledge,
1996.
Doe Reference P 29 .B875 1996
Directories
Alphabetical or subject listings containing names, addresses, and identifying data of persons, organizations, publications, web sites, etc.
- Electronic Resource Finder
- Print Resources
- LSA Bulletin.
Main Stack P 1 .L15 - Recent issues
in Periodical Room.
December issue lists members of the Linguistic Society
of America.
- Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International
Pragmatics Association.
Main Stack P 99.4 .P72 .P67 - Recent issues in Periodical
Room.
Lists members of the International Pragmatics Association.
Dissertation and Thesis Sources
Sources for locating masters theses and doctoral dissertations.
Encyclopedias and Almanacs
General or subject specific encyclopedias, almanacs, and other collections of factual information.
- Electronic Resource Finder
- Print Resources
- The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. Roger D. Woodard, ed. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Doe Reference P 140 .C35 2004
- The Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. Kees Versteegh, ed. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2005.
Doe Reference PJ 6031. E5 2006
- The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Keith Brown, editor in chief, 2nd ed. 14
vols. Amsterdam; Boston: Elsevier, 2006.
Doe Reference P 29 .E48 2006
Online index
Comprehensive, international multi-volume source covering linguistics and related
disciplines such as anthropological linguistics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics,
and subjects concerning broader issues of language and communication in society,
law, education, literature, politics, media, and religion.
- Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Philipp Stranzy, ed. 2 vols. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2005.
Doe Reference P 29. E483 2005
- International Encyclopedia of Linguistics.William J. Frawley, editor in chief. 2nd
ed. 2 vols. Oxford; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Doe Reference P 29 .I58 1991
Broad, comprehensive source covering the full range of linguistics,
descriptive, historical, comparative, typological, functionalist, and
formalist specialties. Also covers interrelations within linguistics, and areas of social and behavioral sciences, as well as interdisciplinary studies, and applied linguistics.
- The Linguistics Encyclopedia. Kirsten Malmkjaer, ed. 2nd ed. London; New York: Routledge, 2002.
Anthropology P 29. L52 2002 Reference
Doe Reference P 29. L52 2002
Government Information Services
Listings of publications and other information published by authority of a governmental body, whether federal, state, local, or foreign, and of intergovernmental organizations, such as UNESCO, etc. Many of these sources include the full text of the items.
Handbooks, Manuals and Yearbooks
Collections of information designed to help practitioners in a specific field or profession, or in the case of yearbooks, to provide annually cumulated information in brief descriptive and statistic form.
- Electronic Resource Finder
- Print Resources
- Compendium of the World's Languages. George
L. Campbell, ed. 2 vols. London; New York: Routledge, 2000.
Doe Reference P 371
.C36 2000
Comparative compendium offering a brief account of how languages work. For
some 300 languages and 40 language families the author provides background
and historical information, scripts, phonology, morphology and syntax, and
illustrative text.
- Ethnologue. Dallas, Tex.: Summer Institute
of Linguistics.
Doe Reference P 371 .E83
Main Stack P 371 .E83
earlier eds.
Online v. 13 -
A catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries. The
Ethnologue Name Index lists over 39,000 language names, dialect names,
and alternate names. The Ethnologue Language Family Index organizes languages
according to language families.
- Linguistics: a guide to the reference literature. 2d
ed. DeMiller, Anna, Ed. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 2000.
Doe Reference
P 121 .A12 .D46 2000
Library and Book Catalogs
Listings of books and other materials belonging to a particular library or, as with union catalogs, a group of libraries, and usually containing information on the location and subject classification of each item. This category also includes national bibliographies, or lists of all books published in a particular country.
Organizations
Listings of subject-related associations, learned societies, or professional organizations.
Linguistic Society of America
Web Gateways and Search Engines
Broad, subject-related sites and subject-specific search engines available without restriction on the World Wide Web.
Linguist List
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