Research Guides: English: Linguistics & Language Research

Databases

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
A collection of scholarly articles for linguistics and language studies.
MLA International Bibliography
A database of scholarly articles in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore produced by the Modern Language Association of America.
Coverage begins in 1923.
JSTOR
An archive of scholarly full-text journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
The JSTOR archive holds the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the 1600s. Subject areas include the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

JSTOR includes various collections, and the St. Kate's Library has purchased the Arts and Sciences Collections I-VII and the Biological Sciences Collection. These collections include subsets for ecology & botany, language & literature, and music.

JSTOR's agreements with publishers often include a "moving wall," which means that the most recent years (typically 3-5 years) are not available.
OED Online
Online version of The Oxford English Dictionary, the authoritative guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past, from across the English-speaking world
The OED is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis and in listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.

As the OED is a historical dictionary, its entry structure is very different from that of a dictionary of current English, in which only present-day senses are covered, and in which the most common meanings or senses are described first. For each word in the OED, the various groupings of senses are dealt with in chronological order according to the quotation evidence.

Updated quarterly with at least 2,500 new and revised entries.
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Articles from scholarly journals in communication, mass media, and related fields.
This database offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 440 journals in communication and mass media, selective coverage of nearly 200 additional journals, and full text for more than 500 journals. Many of the more important journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable cited references from their first issues (dating as far back as 1915) to the present.

Special features include a Communication Thesaurus, searchable cited references for peer-reviewed journals, and profiles providing biographical and bibliographical data for of more than 3,000 authors in the field.

The database incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study.

eBooks

Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching The Case of China by Hayo Reinders
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Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Approaches on Implicatures and Presuppositions by Salvatore Pistoia-Reda
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Exploring Silence and Absence in Discourse Empirical Approache by Melani Schröter
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The Discourse of Business Meetings Agency and Power in Financial Organizations by Fatma M. AlHaidari.
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Websites

Here are listed a variety of websites that offer a combination of articles, archives, societies and other free online resources about language.

MLA Language Map
The MLA Language Map is for students, teachers, and anyone learning more about the cultural composition and linguistic landscape of the United States.
Linguistic Society of America
Explore research and connect with members. Content covers phonetics and phonology to syntax and sociolinguistics.
Center for the Study of Language and Information
Through Stanford University this site is dedicated to research in linguistics and information.
Cascadilla Proceedings Project
Cascadilla offers online proceedings of a wide variety of linguistics conferences from around the country.
Glossa
Glossa is an open access journal that covers a wide range of topics about and relating to linguistics.
Linguistic Resources
Offers a list of resources that specifically focus on grammar and syntax to language policy and lexicography.
Less Commonly Taught Languages
Wanted information about languages that are not commonly taught? Through the University of Minnesota, this is also a great place to find resources for developing classroom materials for those less commonly taught languages.
OLAC Language Resource Catalog
Also known as Open Language Archives Community, OLAC offers archives of specific languages, browse by country and language filters and more!
The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS)
WALS specializes in the structural aspects of language (lexicon, grammar and phonology). Here limit by regions, languages and more! Topics also include pronunciations, tone and syllable structure.

Where to Browse: Call Numbers

Looking for books, but do not know where to start?

These call numbers will be specific to language and linguistics.

P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics

P95-95.6 Oral communication. Speech

P98-98.5 Computational linguistics.

P99-99.4 Semiotics. Signs and symbols

P99.5-99.6 Nonverbal communication

P101-410 Language. Linguistic theory.

P118-118.75 Language acquisition

P121-149 Science of language (Linguistics)

P201-299 Comparative grammar

P301-301.5 Style. Composition. Rhetoric

P302-302.87 Discourse analysis

P306-310 Translating and interpreting

P321-324.5 Etymology

P325-325.5 Semantics

P326-326.5 Lexicology

P327-327.5 Lexicography

P375-381 Linguistic geography

P501-769 Indo-European (Indo-Germanic) philology

P901-1091 Extinct ancient or medieval languages

courtesy of http://guides.lib.uchicago.edu/linguistics

Library of Congress Subclass P
Plus, here is a fuller and more detailed list of the subcategories within the P section of the Library of Congress.