LINGUISTICS
SELECTED REFERENCE AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RESOURCES

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON LIBRARIES


Alvin Fritz
Linguistics Librarian
University of Washington
alvin@u.washington.edu
revised May 17, 2007

This is an historical file as of 2007. Not updated.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

GUIDES AND INTRODUCTIONS TO LINGUISTICS

INTERNET RESOURCES

LINGUISTIC SCHOLARS AND ORGANIZATIONS

INDEXES/ABSTRACTS

INDEXES/LANGUAGE-LANGUAGE FAMILY SPECIFIC

ENCYCLOPEDIAS

DICTIONARIES

LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD

BIBLIOGRAPHY (non-serial)

LINGUISTIC ATLASES


GUIDES AND INTRODUCTIONS TO LINGUISTICS

Directory of Master's Programs in Foreign Languages, Foreign Literatures, and Linguistics.
SuzRefRdy PB 38 .U6 D57 1987

Handbook of the International Phonetic Association: a Guide to the Use of the International Phonetic Alphabet. International Phonetic Association.
Cambridge, UK; NY: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
note: covers the IPA alphabet and the basics of phonetic analysis using IPA
SuzRef, NatSci P 227 .I52 1999

Linguistics: a Guide to the Reference Literature.
SuzRef Z 7001 .D45 1991

Native Tongues.
(popular and curious facts about languages and language behavior)
SuzRef P 106 B47 1982


INTERNET RESOURCES

Arts and Humanities Citation Index. 1975+
Philadelphia: Institute for Scientific Information.
note: Electronic version covers 1980+ and is restricted to UW users; click on: Log on to isi Web of Science Databases; then select full search; then select Arts & Humanities Citation Index and click on: General Search
note: Covers all subjects in the arts and the humanities and includes articles in German as well as English; this is the only database that shows references cited and where subsequently cited in later articles; also includes book reviews.
SuzRef Index/Abstract Z5937 A795 1975+

International Phonetic Association
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html

Linguistic Data Consortium
note: The Linguistic Data Consortium supports language-related education education, research and technology development by creating and sharing linguistics resources: data, tools, and standards. Its ACL Anthology: A Digital Archive of Research Papers in Computational Linguistics provides links to numerous full text proceedings, reports, and papers of scholarly organizations in computational linguistics.
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu

Linguistic Society of America
http://www.lsadc.org/

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts: LLBA. 1973+
note: abstracts of the world's literature in linguistics & language-related research; abstracts of books, journal articles; book review listings; enhanced bibliographic citations of dissertations. The electronic version is restricted to UW users. Previously entitled Language and Language Behavior Abstracts; electronic version covers 1973+; printed version, 1967+
SuzRef Index/Abstracts P1 L53 1967+

Linguistics Department, The University of Washington
http://depts.washington.edu/lingweb/

Lists of Linguistics Resources
http://linguistlist.org
note: homepages of conferences/institutes/associations/funding sources/jobs/programs/personal pages/addresses/papers/reviews/language resources

MLA international bibliography....1921/25+
New York: Modern Language Association of America
note: Covers 1926 to the present; restricted to UW users. Good coverage of general and comparative linguistics and studies of European languages, as well as literature and folklore.

Yahoo! Linguistics and Human Languages
http://www.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Linguistics_and_Human_Languages/


LINGUISTIC SCHOLARS AND ORGANIZATIONS

A Biographical Dictionary of the Phonetic Sciences. 1977.
(bios of significant contributors to the phonetic sciences, to 1960)
SuzRef P 83 B5

Linguisten Handbuch. Biographische und bibliographische Daten deutschsprachiger Sprachwissenschaftlerinnen und Sprachwissenschaftler der Gegenwart. 2 vols.
(bios with bibliographies of contemporary German-speaking linguistics scholars; international)
SuzRef P 83 L56 1994

Linguistic Data Consortium
note: The Linguistic Data Consortium supports language-related education education, research and technology development by creating and sharing linguistics resources: data, tools, and standards. Its ACL Anthology: A Digital Archive of Research Papers in Computational Linguistics provides links to numerous full text proceedings, reports, and papers of scholarly organizations in computational linguistics.
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu

Linguistic Society of America.
http://www.lsadc.org/

Linguistics Department, The University of Washington
http://depts.washington.edu/lingweb/

Sociolinguistic and Language Planning Organizations.
SuzRef P 40.5 L35 D66 1995


INDEXES/ABSTRACTS

  • Arts and Humanities Citation Index. 1975+
    Philadelphia: Institute for Scientific Information.
    note: Electronic version covers 1980+ and is restricted to UW users; click on: Log on to isi Web of Science Databases; then select full search; then select Arts & Humanities Citation Index and click on: General Search
    note: Covers all subjects in the arts and the humanities and includes articles in German as well as English; this is the only database that shows references cited and where subsequently cited in later articles; also includes book reviews.
    SuzRef Index/Abstract Z5937 A795 1975+

    Bibliographie Linguistischer Literatur. Bibliography of Linguistic Literature. 1971- (annual)
    (general linguistics; English, German, & Romance linguistics)
    SuzRef Z 7003 .B58

  • Engineering Village 2
    note: The combined Compendex and Inspec (major indexes in electrical engineering) databases, extensive inclusion of computational linguistics and related topics. Some full-text. Indexes numerous journal, transactions, and conference proceedings.

  • ERIC 1966+
    note: consists of two files: the Resources in Education (RIE) file of document citations and abstracts of the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) file of journal article citations and abstracts from over 750 professional journals; excellent index for studies on teaching and learning language

  • IEEE Explore
    note: Provides full-text access to IEEE transactions, IEEE and IEE journals, magazines, and conference proceedings published since 1988, and all current IEEE standards; a major electrical engineering index, extensive inclusion of computational linguistics research

    Linguistic Bibliography for the Year....Bibliographie Linguistique de l'Annee.... 1939- (annual)
    SuzRef Z 7001 .B5

  • Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts: LLBA. 1973+
    note: abstracts of the world's literature in linguistics & language-related research; abstracts of books, journal articles; book review listings; enhanced bibliographic citations of dissertations. The electronic version is restricted to UW users. Previously entitled Language and Language Behavior Abstracts; electronic version covers 1973+; printed version, 1967+
    SuzRef Index/Abstracts P1 L53 1967+

    MLA international bibliography....1921/25+
    New York: Modern Language Association of America
    note: Covers 1926 to the present; restricted to UW users. Good coverage of general and comparative linguistics and studies of European languages, as well as literature and folklore.

  • Philosopher's Index
    note: provides indexing and abstracts from books and over 270 journals on philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields published in the U.S. and the Western World. Coverage is from 1940 to the present for U.S. materials, and 1967 to the present for non-U.S. references

  • PsycInfo 1872+
    note: Psychology and psychological aspects of medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, communication and law.

  • Sociological Abstracts 1963+
    note: indexes and abstracts journal and other literature in sociology and related disciplines (sociolinguistics!) from approximately 2,500 journals, international coverage

    Year's Work in Modern Language Studies. 1929/30-
    SuzRef PB 1 .Y4


    INDEXES: LANGUAGE/LANGUAGE FAMILY SPECIFIC
    e.g., linguistics of the Romance languages; most language specific indexes also have a general and comparative linguistics section; languages and language families are also well-covered in LLBA and European language families in MLA as well: see previous section for links.

    CLASSICAL LINGUISTICS (GREEK AND LATIN)

    L'Annee Philologique; Bibliographie Critique et Analytique de l'Antiquite Greco-Latine. 1924/26+
    Paris: Societe d'edition "Les belles lettres," 1928+
    note: v.20-75 (1949-2004) available online
    SuzRef Z7016 .A55

    GERMANIC LINGUISTICS

    Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature. 1920-
    SuzRef Z2011 .M69 (Shelf 19)

    Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft. (Eppelsheimer, Köttelwesch)
    Frankfurt: V. Klostermann, 1957+
    Bd.1+ 1945/53+
    note: The online bibliography covers 1985 to the present, including primary and secondary literature: articles, chapters in books, books, dissertations, and reviews.
    note: v.1-8 (1945/53-1967/68) entitled: Bibliographie der deutschen Literaturwissenschaft. (did not include linguistics)
    SuzRef Z 2231 .B5

    Year's Work in English Studies. 1919/1920-
    (bibliographic essay style)
    SuzRef PE 10 .E6 (Shelf 19)

    NATIVE AMERICAN LINGUISTICS

    Native North American Languages Resources
    http://faculty.washington.edu/alvin/natlan.htm

    ROMANCE LINGUISTICS

    Romanische Bibliographie. 1875- (annual)
    (note: earlier years as Zeitschrift fur Romanische Philologie. Supplement.)
    (includes Latin)
    SuzRef Z 7032 Z45


    ENCYCLOPEDIAS

    The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems.
    SuzRef Z 40 .C67 1996

    The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language.
    SuzRef P 29 .C64 1987

    Concise Encyclopedia of Educational Linguistics.
    SuzRef P 40.8 .C66 1999

    Concise Encyclopedia of Grammatical Categories.
    SuzRef P 240.5 .C66 1999

    Concise Encyclopedia of Language and Religion. Edited by John F.A. Sawyer, J.M.Y. Simpson; consulting editor, R.E. Asher.
    Amsterdam; NY: Elsevier, 2001.
    SuzRef, TacRef P41 .C65 2001

    Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language.
    SuzRef P 106 .C5946 1997

    Concise Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics. Edited by Rajend Mesthrie; consulting editor, R. E. Asher.
    Amsterdam; NY: Elsevier, 2001.
    SuzRef P40 .C564 2001

    Concise Encyclopedia of Syntactic Theories.
    SuzRef P 291 .C575 1996

    Encyclopedia of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education.
    SuzRef LC 3707 .E53 1998

    Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Keith Brown, editor-in-chief; co-ordinating editors, Anne H. Anderson ... [et al.] 2nd ed.
    Amsterdam; London: Elsevier, 2006. 14 volumes.
    note: also available online
    SuzRef P29 .E48 2006

    Encyclopedia of Semiotics.
    SuzRef P99 .E64 1998

    Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe.
    SuzRef P380 .E53 1998

    Encyclopedic Dictionary of Applied Linguistics: A Handbook for Language Teaching.
    SuzRef P 129 .E53 1998

    An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Language and Languages.
    SuzRef P29 .C68 1992

    Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics. 3 vols.
    P99 .E65 1986

    Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, Media, and Communications. Marcel Danesi.
    Toronto: University of Toroonto Press, c2000.
    SuzRef P87.5 .D36 2000

    Facts about the World's Languages: an Encyclopedia of the World's Major Languages, Past and Present.
    Edited by Jane Garry and Carl Rubino; contributing linguistics editors, Adams B. Bodomo, Alice Faber, Robert French.
    NY: H. W. Wilson, 2001
    SuzRef, BotRef P371 .F33 2001

    International Encyclopedia of Communications. 4 vols.
    SuzRef P87.5 .I5 1989

    International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. William Frawley, editor in chief. 2nd ed. 4 vols.
    Oxford; NY: Oxford University Press, 2003.
    note: also available online
    SuzRef P29 .I58 2003

    The Linguistics Encyclopedia.
    SuzRef P29 .L52 1991


    DICTIONARIES

    An Alphabetical Guide to the Language of Name Studies. Adrian Room.
    Lanham, MD: Scarcecrow Press, 1996.
    note: a dictionary of onomastics
    SuzRef P 321.85 .R66 1996

    A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics.
    SuzRef P 152 T7 1993

    Dictionary of Historical and Comparative Linguistics. R. L. Trask.
    Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c2000.
    SuzRef P143 .T73 2000

    Dictionary of Languages: the Definitive Reference to More Than 400 Languages.
    SuzRef P29 .D35 1998

    Dictionary of Lexicography.
    SuzRef P 327 .H37 1998

    A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. David Crystal. 5th ed.
    Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2003.
    SuzRef P 29 .C65 2003

    A Dictionary of New Zealand Sign Language.
    SuzRef HV 2475 .D56 1997

    A Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology. R. L. (Robert Lawrence) Trask.
    London; NY: Routledge, 1996.
    SuzRef, UglRef P 216 T73 1996

    Dictionary of Semiotics.
    SuzRef P99 .M357 2000

    A Dictionary of Sociolinguistics. Joan Swann ... [et al.]
    Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004.
    SuzRef P40 .D477 2004

    A Dictionary of Stylistics. Katie Wales.
    London; NY: Longman, 1989.
    SuzRef P 301 W35 1989

    Dictionary of the Prague School of Linguistics. Josef Vachek in collaboration with Josef Dubsky; translated from the French, German, and Czech original sources by Alex Klégr ... [et al.]; edited by Libuse Dusková.
    Amsterdam; Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, c2003.
    (Studies in functional and structural linguistics, v. 50)
    note: original edition in French: 403 V134d
    SuzRef P147 .V313 2003

    Dictionnaire de la Linguistique. Georges Mounin.
    Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1974.
    note: French terms in linguistics
    SuzRef P 29 M6

    Dictionnaire de Linguistique. Jean Dubois [et al.]
    Paris: Larousse, [c1973].
    note: French terms in linguistics.
    SuzRef P 29 D53

    Encyclopedic Dictionary of Applied Linguistics: A Handbook for Language Teaching.
    SuzRef P 129 .E53 1998

    An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Language and Languages. David Crystal.
    see: The Penguin Dictionary of Language.

    A Glossary of Applied Linguistics. Alan Davies.
    Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005.
    SuzRef P129 .D368 2005

    A Glossary of Corpus Linguistics. Paul Baker, Andrew Hardie and Tony McEnery.
    Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c2006.
    SuzRef P98 .B314 2000

    A Glossary of Language and Mind. Jean Aitchison.
    Oxford; NY: Oxford University Press, c2003.
    SuzRef BF 455 .A36 2003

    A Glossary of Morphology. Laurie Bauer.
    Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, c2004.
    SuzRef P241 .B378 2004

    A Guide to World Language Dictionaries. Andrew Dalby.
    London: Library Association, 1998.
    SuzRef P361 .D34 1998

    Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft. Hadumod Bussman.
    Stuttgart: Kröner, 1983.
    note: German dictionary of linguistics terms.
    SuzRef P29 B87 1983

    The Literacy Dictionary: the Vocabulary of Reading and Writing. Theodore L. Harris, Richard E. Hodges, editors.
    Newark, DE: International Reading Association, c1995.
    SuzRef, BotRef, TacRef LB 1049.98 .L58 1995

    Metzler Lexikon Sprache. Herausgegeben von Helmut Glück.
    Stuttgart; Weimar: Metzler, 1993.
    note: German dictionary of linguistics terms.
    SuzRef P29 .M46 1993

    Multilingual Lexicon of Linguistics and Philology: English, Russian, German, French. Rose Nash. Consultants: Mervin Alleyne, Gerd Fraenkel [and] Stephen Soudakoff.
    Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press [1968]
    note: polyglot dictionary, no definitions.
    SuzRef P29 N34

    The Penguin Dictionary of Language. David Crystal. 2nd ed.
    London: Penguin, 1999.
    note: previous ed. (1992) entitled: An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Language and Languages.
    SuzRef P29 .C68 1999

    Perigee Visual Dictionary of Signing: an A-to-Z Guide to over 1,350 Signs of American Sign Language. Rod R. Butterworth and Mickey Flodin. Rev. and expanded 3rd ed.
    NY: Berkley Pub. Group, c1995.
    SuzRef HV 2475 .B87 1995

    Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics.
    SuzRef P29 .B875 1996

    Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning. Edited by Michael Byram.
    London; NY: Routledge, 2000.
    SuzRef P51 .R66 2000

    Semiotique, Dictionnarie Raisonne de la Theorie du Langage. 1979. 2 vols.
    SuzRef P 99 .G68

    A Student's Dictionary of Language and Linguistics.
    London: Arnold; New York: Distributed by St. Martin's Press, 1997
    SuzRef P 29 .T69 1997

    Terminologie zur Neueren Linguistik. 2 vols.
    (German terms in modern linguistics)
    SuzStx P 29 .T4 1988

    World Lexicon of Grammaticalization. Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva.
    Cambridge; NY: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
    (terms and processes related to the evolution of grammatical categories, with examples)
    SuzRef P299 .G73 H455 2002


    LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD

    Classification and Index of the World's Languages. 1977
    (language family arrangement)
    SuzRef P203 V6

    Compendium of the World's Languages. George L. Campbell. 2nd ed. 2 vols.
    London; NY: Routledge, 2000.
    note: arranged alphabetically by language)
    SuzRef P 371 C36 2000.

    Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe.
    SuzRef P 380 .E53 1998

    Ethnologue Languages of the World.
    note: geographic arrangement, a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries; available both in print and on the web
    SuzRef P 371 E83 1992

    Guide to the World's Languages. 1987
    (of 3 planned vols., only v.1 has appeared;
    v.1: Classification: by continent; numerous lists; discussion, and bibliography)
    SuzRef P 203 R8 1986 v.1

    A Guide to World Language Dictionaries.
    SuzRef P361 .D34 1998

    The Languages of the World.
    (brief entries: language families, then geographic arrangement)
    SuzRef P201 K35 1986

    Les Langues du Monde. 1952.
    (geographic/language family heirarchy)
    SuzRef P121 M45 1952

    Linguistic Composition of the Nations of the World. 6 vols.
    (geographic/nation/language heirarchy)
    SuzRef P128 .S8 U5 1974

    Living Languages of the Americas.
    (geographic/language data/vernacular & technical publications)
    PM 108 L58 1995

    Native North American Languages.
    note: A guide to major reference resources on Native North American languages.

    The World's Major Languages. Edited by Bernard Comrie.
    NY: Oxford University Press, 1987.
    (language family arrangement)
    SuzRef, UglRef P 371 W6 1987
    TacRef P 371 W6 1990 (reprint or 1987)


    BIBLIOGRAPHY (non-serial)

    A Bibliography of Contemporary Linguistic Research. 1978.
    (English language publications only; 5001 entries)
    SuzRef Z 7001 .G38

    A Comprehensive Bibliography of Pragmatics. 4 vols.
    SuzRef Z7004 .P73 N89 1987

    Dictionary Catalog of the Library of the Center for Applied Linguistics. 1974. 4 vols.
    SuzRef Z7005 .W37

    Language Origins: a Bibliography. 2nd rev. ed.
    SuzRef Z7004 .O75 H46 1975


    LINGUISTIC ATLASES (the subject heading for a linguistic atlas is: name of the language or dialect--Maps, e.g., French language--Maps)

    Atlas de la Francophonie.
    SuzStx PC 2777 .A859 1989

    Atlas linguistique de la France.
    Suz Elephant Folio 447 G39a
    (supplementary volumes in SuzStx 447 G39an....)

    Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas. 2vols. in 3.
    SuzRef P130.5 .A87 1996

    The Atlas of Languages: the Origin and Development of Languages throughout the World.
    SuzRef P 106 .L67 1996

    Atlas of the Languages and Ethnic communities of South Asia.
    SuzRef PK 1541 .A1 1997

    DTV-Atlas zur Deutschen Sprache: Tafeln und Texte.
    SuzRef PF 3777 .K64 1991

    The Linguistic Atlas of England.
    SuzRef PE 1705 .O78 1978

    A Linguistic Atlas of Pennsylvania German. 1954.
    SuzStx 437.9 R251p Atlas

    Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States. 7 vols.
    SuzStx PE 2970 .G85 L56 1986

    Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States. Raven I. McDavid, Jr., editor-in-chief; Raymond K. O'Cain, associate editor; George T. Dorrill, assistant editor; Guy S. Lowman, Jr., principal field investigator. 2 vols.
    Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1980-
    SuzStx PE 2913 .L55

    Linguistic Atlas of the Upper Midwest. Harold S. Allen. 3 vols.
    [Minneapolis] University of Minnesota Press, 1873-76.
    SuzStx PE 2912 .A4

    The World Atlas of Language Structures. Martin Haspelmath ... [et al.]
    Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
    note: Unlike most linguistic atlases which map the geographic distribution of particular languages or words, this atlas maps the distribution of 140 phenomena that occur in languages, such as inflectional synthesis of the verb, word order, and coding of evidentiality; each phenomenon with explanatory text.
    SuzRefAtlases P143 .W67 2005
    SuzCirculation P143 .W67 2005 disc