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Encyclopedias
Provide
excellent background/overview information. An excellent place to
begin research. Contain articles written by experts for a general
audience. Provide indexes indicating scope of coverage of a topic
and pinpointing in which articles a concept will be discussed. Provide
bibliographies for further reading.
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The
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, 2nd ed.
by David Crystal
P29 .C64 1997 (Reference)
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The
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
ed. by R. E. Asher, 10 vols.
P29 .E48 1994 (Reference) |
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International
Encyclopedia of Linguistics
ed. by William Bright, 4 vols.
P29 .I58 1992 (Reference) |
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The
Linguistics Encyclopedia
ed. by Kristen Malmkjær
P29 .L52 1991 (Reference) |
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Concise
Encyclopedia of Educational Linguistics
ed. by Bernard Spolsky
P40.8 .C66 1999 (Reference) |
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International
Encyclopedia of Communications
ed. by Erik Barnouw, 4 vols.
P87.5 .I5 1989 (Reference) |
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From
Talking Drums to the Internet : an Encyclopedia of Communications
Technology
by Robert Gardner and Dennis Shortelle
P96 .T42 G374 1997 (Reference) |
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Encyclopedia
of Semiotics
ed. by Paul Bouissac
P99 .E64 1998 (Reference) |
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Concise
Encyclopedia of Pragmatics
ed. by Jacob L. Mey
P99.4 .P72 C62 1998 (Reference) |
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Concise
Encyclopedia of Grammatical Categories
ed. by Keith Brown and Jim Miller
P240.5 .C66 1999 (Reference) |
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Concise
Encyclopedia of Syntactic Theories
ed. by Keith Brown and Jim Miller
P291 .C575 1996 (Reference) |
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Routledge
Encyclopedia of Translation Studies
ed. by Mona Baker
P306 .R68 1998 (Reference) |
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Encyclopedia
of the Languages of Europe
ed. by Glanville Price
P380 .E53 1998 (Reference) |
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Reference
Books
Handbooks,
dictionaries, statistical sources, tables; detailed or procedural
information specific to the subject areas addressed.
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Routledge
Dictionary of Language and Linguistics
Hadumod Bussmann
P29 .B875 1996 (Reference) |
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A
Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics
David Crystal, 4th ed.
P29 .C65 1997 (Reference) |
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An
Encyclopedia Dictionary of Language and Languages
David Crystal
P29 .C68 1992 (Reference) |
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Dictionary
of Languages : the Definitive Reference to More than 400 Languages
Andrew Dalby
P29 .D35 1998 (Reference) |
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Encyclopedic
Dictionary of the Sciences of Language
Oswald Ducrot and Tzvetan Todorov
P29 .D813 (Reference) |
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The
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics
Peter Matthews
P29 .M34 1997 (Reference) |
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A
Student's Dictionary of Language and Linguistics
R. L. Trask
P29 .T69 1997 (Reference) |
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Community
Languages : a Handbook
Barbara M. Horvath And Paul Vaughn
P40 .H69 1991 (Reference) |
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Encyclopedic
Dictionary of Semiotics
ed. by Thomas A. Sebeok, 3 vols
P99 .E65 1986 (Reference) |
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International
Handbook of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education
ed. by Christina Bratt Paulston
P115 .I58 1988 (Reference) |
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Encyclopedic
Dictionary of Applied Linguistics : a Handbook for Language
Teaching
ed. by Keith Johnson and Helen Johnson
P129 .E53 1998 (Reference) |
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Longman
Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics
ed. by Jack C. Richards, John Platt and Heidi Platt
P129 .R5 1992 (Reference) |
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A
Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics
R. L. Trask
P152 .T7 1993 (Reference) |
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A
Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology
R. L. Trask
P216 .T73 1996 (Reference) |
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The
Study of Names : a Guide to the Principles and Topics
Frank Nuessel
P323 .N84 1992 (Reference) |
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A
Dictionary of Stylistics
Katie Wales
P301 .W35 1989 (Reference) |
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Dictionary
of Lexicography
R. R. K. Hartmann and Gregory James
P327 .H37 1998 (Reference) |
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The
Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed.
PE1625 .O87 1989 (Ready Reference)
The Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on Compact
Disc
PE1625 .O87 1992, CD-ROM (Reference) |
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Linguistics:
a Guide to the Reference Literature
Anna L. DeMiller, 2nd ed.
Z7001 .D45 2000 (Reference) |
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Databases
and Indexes
Magazine,
periodical and journal articles provide information on current developments,
research trends, experiments and hot topics in a discipline. For
every discipline, there are specific databases or indexes that provide
article level information. Once articles are identified through
the database or index search, look up the source journal in Vikat,
PSU Library's online catalog, to locate them in the library. For
a complete list of online databases and indexes, see the Library's
Online Databases pages.
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Linguistics
and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) (1973-present)
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA
) (1967-present)
P1 .L15 (Reference)
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
covers all aspects of the study of language and linguistics
including: Anthropological Linguistics, Applied Linguistics,
Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis / Text Linguistics,
Hearing and Speech Physiology, Hearing - Pathological and Normal,
History of Linguistics, Interpersonal Behavior and Communication,
Language Classificatio, Language - Pathological and Normal,
Learning Disabilities, Lexicography / Lexicology, Mental Retardation,
Morphology, Nonverbal Communication, Orthography, Writing Systems,
Philosophy of Language, Phonetics, Phonology, Poetics / Literary
Theory, Psycholinguistics, Psychometrics, Semantics, Semiotics,
Sociolinguistics, Special Education, Syntax, Theory of Linguistics,
and Typology. |
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Linguistics
Abstracts (1985-present)
P1 .A1 L5123 (Reference Tables)
Emphasis on theory and practice of general linguistics.
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Linguistic
Bibliography for the Year …and Supplement for Previous Years
(1939-1995)
Z7001 .P4 (Reference)
Valuable for its worldwide coverage of the field
of linguistics. |
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Language
Teaching (vol. 15, 1982-present)
P51 .L33 |
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MLA
International Bibliography (1963-present)
MLA International Bibliography (1921-present)
Z7006 .M64 (Reference)
MLA Bibliography covers literature, languages,
linguistics, and folklore from over 4,000 journals and series
published worldwide. From the Modern Language Association.
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Dissertation
abstracts international. (Dissertations 1861-present;
Masters Theses, 1988-present) |
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Humanities
Index
Humanities
index (April, 1974-present)
AI3 .H8 (Reference)
Humanities index (1984-present)
CD-ROM (Reference)
Journals
indexed in Humanities index held by PSU. |
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Arts
& Humanities Citation Index (1974-present)
AI3 .A75 (Reference)
Allows searching of references cited in books
and journal articles as well as author, title and subject searching.
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Biography
Index
Z5301 .B5 (Reference)
Indexes biographical information appearing in
more than 2,700 periodicals and books of individual and collected
biographies |
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Essay
and General Literature Index
Essay
and general literature index (1900-1996)
AI3 .E752 (Reference)
Essay and general literature index (1985-present)
CD-ROM (Reference) |
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Education
Index (1929-2000)
Z5813 .E23 (Reference) |
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WorldCat
http://firstsearch.oclc.org/fsip?dbname=WorldCat&done=referer
Contains more than 30 millions records for materials
cataloged by the Library of Congress and OCLC member libraries,
including most academic and many public libraries in the U.S.
Catalog includes books, serials (journals, magazines and newspapers),
musical scores, recordings, videos, computer software, films,
maps and manuscripts. Locations for all materials are cited.
Can be searched by author, title, subject, year, language, material
type. |
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Academic
Search Premier (1984-present)
Provides full text for over 1,250 journals covering the social
sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies,
education, and current affairs. |
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ArticleFirst
(1990-present)
Contains nearly two million bibliographic records
from the tables of contents of more than 3,000 journals, covering
a broad range of subjects including business, humanities, medicine,
popular culture, science, social science, and technology. Most
journals in ArticleFirst have been indexed from 1990 to the
present. |
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ContentsFirst
(1990-present)
Contains approximately two million bibliographic
records from the tables of contents more than 13,000 journals,
covering a broad range of subjects, including business, humanities,
medicine, popular culture, science, social science, and technology.
Most journals in ContentsFirst have been indexed from 1990 to
the present. |
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Education
Abstracts Full Text (1983-present)
Coverage of 423 core periodicals, monographs,
and yearbooks in the field of education. |
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ERIC
(1976-present)
ERIC indexes journal articles and documents in
the field of education and includes information from RIE (Resources
in Education) and CIJE (Current Index to Journals in Education).
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PsychINFO
(1889-present)
PsycINFO covers the professional and academic
literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine,
psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology,
and linguistics. |
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Sociological
Abstracts (1963-present)
Sociological Abstracts covers the academic and
professional literature in sociology and related disciplines
in the social and behavioral sciences. The database draws information
from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other
serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations.
Citations to journal articles published after 1974 include abstracts.
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Subject
Headings
Subject
headings allow you to search library catalogs for materials on a
particular topic. Often subject heading searching can be more productive
than searching by simple keywords. Listed here are some major subject
headings of interest for research in applied linguistics.
Copies of the complete set of the Library of Congress Subject Headings
are available at the reference desks throughout the library.
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Grammar |
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Language
and Languages |
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Language
and Culture |
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Languages,
Modern |
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Language
Acquisition |
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Second
Language Acquisition |
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Language
and Education |
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Bilingualism |
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Education,
Bilingual |
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Linguistics |
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Computational
linguistics |
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Psycholinguistics |
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Sociolinguistics |
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Translating
and interpreting |
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English
language Foreign speakers (ESL) |
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Philology |
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Speech
Acts |
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Semiotics |
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Pragmatics |
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Semantics |
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Call
Numbers
Browsing
the library shelves by call number ranges is another strategy for
locating information on a topic; call numbers can help you get to
the "right neighborhood" in the library stacks.
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P Philology. Linguistics. |
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P1-85
General Philology. Linguistics. |
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P98-98.5
Computational linguistics. Natural language processing. |
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P99.5-99.6
Nonverbal communication. |
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P101-410
Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar. |
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P118-118.7
Language acquisition. |
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P121-149
Science of language (Linguistics) |
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P201-299
Comparative Grammar |
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P301-301.5
Style. Composition. Rhetoric |
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P302-302.87
Discourse analysis |
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P306-310
Translating and interpreting |
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P321-324.5
Etymology |
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P325-325.5
Semantics |
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P326-326.5
Lexicology |
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P327-327.5
Lexicography |
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P375-381
Linguistic geography |
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P501-769
Indo-European (Indo-Germanic) philology |
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P901-1091
Extinct ancient or medieval languages |
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PA1-199
Classical philology |
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PA201-899
Greek philology and language |
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PA1000-1179
Medieval and modern Greek language |
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PA2001-2915
Latin philology and language |
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PB
Modern European languages |
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PC
Romance languages |
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PD
Germanic languages |
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PE
English |
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PF
West Germanic |
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PG
Slavic. Baltic, Albanian languages and literature. |
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PH
Finno-Ugrian, Basque languages and literature |
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PJ1-2594
Oriental languages and literatures |
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PJ3001-9293
Semitic |
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PK
Indo-Iranian |
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PL
Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania |
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PM
Hyperborean, Indian, and Artificial languages |
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Organizations
Often
the best way to find information on a topic is to look for material
published by a professional society
or an organization.
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Important
Resources
These
sources don't fit any particular category, but are important for
the discipline.
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Portraits
of Linguists : a Biographical Source Book for the History of
Western Linguistics, 1746-1963
ed. by Thomas A. Sebeok, 2 vols.
P83. S4 (Reference) |
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Classification
and Index of the World's Languages
C. F and F. M. Voegelin
P203 .V6 (Reference) |
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Handbook
of Scripts and Alphabets
George L. Campbell
P211 .C25 1997 (Reference) |
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The
Alphabet ABECEDARIUM : Some Notes on Letters
Richard A. Firmage
P211 .F6 1993 (Reference) |
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Phonetic
Symbol Guide
Geoffrey K. Pullum and William A. Ladusaw
P221 .P85 1986 (Reference) |
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Compendium
of the World's Languages
George L. Campbell, 2 vols.
P371 .C36 1991 (Reference) |
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Book
Review Index. (1965-present)
Z1035 .A1 B6 (Reference) |
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Book
Review Digest (vol. 51, 1955-present)
Z1219 .C95 (Reference) |
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Index
to Book Reviews in the Humanities (1960-1990)
Z1035 .A1 I63 (Reference) |
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Combined
Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities Journals,
1802-1974, 10 vols.
Z1035 .A1 C65 (Reference) |
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Combined
retrospective index to book reviews in scholarly journals, 1886-1974,
15 vols.
Z1035 .A1 C64 (Reference) |
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The
Applied Linguistics WWW Virtual Library
http://alt.venus.co.uk/VL/AppLingBBK/welcome.html
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iLoveLanguages
http://www.ilovelanguages.com |
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The
Linguist List
http://www.emich.edu/~linguist/ |
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Linguistic
Links (University of Rochester)
http://www.ling.rochester.edu/linglinks.html
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Stanford
University Center for the Study of Language and Information
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/ |
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Haskins
Laboratories at Yale University http://www.haskins.yale.edu/haskins/about.html
Focuses on the biological bases of speech and language.
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Ethnologue
http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/
Contains the entire printed text of the printed volumes (except
language maps) of the Ethnologue Language Name Index and the
Ethnologue Language Family Index. |
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Universal
Survey of Languages
http://www.teleport.com:80/~napoleon/
An evolving general survey of the world's languages, with a
section on invented languages and a natural language index.
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Yamada
Language Center Language Guides
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides.html
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Constructed
Human Languages
http://www.quetzal.com/conlang.html
Information on and links to other sites concerning Esperanto,
Xaini, Klingon, etc. |
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