Linguistics: A Reference Bibliography
URL: http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/newling04.htm
TABLE OF CONTENTS
GUIDES, HANDBOOKS AND DIRECTORIES
- DeMiller, Anna L. Linguistics: a guide to the reference literature. 2nd ed. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2000.
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(Olin Ref Z 7001 .D45x 2000; also available online)
Contemporary linguistics is not one unified discipline; it is more accurate to view it as consisting of a nucleus of general areas surrounded by a growing number of interdisciplinary research fields, approaches, and applications. Thus it is no easy task to compile a guide that surveys the sources for a conglomerate of overlapping fields. DeMiller shows that it can be done successfully and professionally. Her work annotates over 700 reference sources, published mostly from 1957 to 1989, that are neatly organized and discussed in 31 chapters clustered into three parts: general linguistics, allied areas, and languages. Part 2 focuses on interdisciplinary areas and applications. Three thorough indexes (author, title, and subject) complement the work.
- Crystal, David and Hilary Crystal. Words on Words: Quotations about Language and Languages. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
- (Olin Reference P106 .C765 2000)
A collection of several thousand quotations on language and linguistics. Extensively indexed.
ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND DICTIONARIES
- Asher, R.E. ed. The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Tarrytown, N.Y.:
Pergamon Press, 1994. 10 vol.
- (Olin Ref P29 E56+)
The most comprehensive and up-to-date encyclopedia in linguistics and related subject areas, containing "more than 2000 articles...by more than 1000 contributing editors." (Introduction) Broad in scope, so that interdisciplinary aspects of linguistics and language studies are covered as well as various areas of linguistics. Global communication and writing systems are included, as well as extensive biographies/bibliographies of linguists. Signed articles include authoritative bibliographies. Consult the separate Index volume for alphabetical and classified listings.
- Coulmas, Florian. Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1996.
- (Olin Ref Z40 C67x 1995)
"The principal purpose of this encyclopedia is to provide basic concise information on the writing systems, scripts and orthographies of the world's major languages" (Preface). A thorough, well-presented work with excellent tables and illustrations. There are numerous cross-references which pull the work together, since it consists of many short articles rather than comprehensive treatments. Most articles have brief bibliographies and there is an extensive bibliography at the end of the work. Highly useful for overviews of every imaginable script from Cherokee to Maldivian (not to be confused with Old Maldivian) and such oddities as the finger alphabet and quipu. See also the less inclusive Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets (Olin Ref P 211 .C25x).
- Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. 2nd ed. New York:
Cambridge U, 1997.
- (Olin Ref P 29 C95 C2+; also Uris Ref)
This illustrated one-volume encyclopedia presents the major themes in language study. A glossary and index provide excellent access to the many articles. Excellent maps, plates, photographs and charts. A bibliography is appended.
- Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 5th ed. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2003.
- (Olin Ref P 29 .C65 2003)
Alphabetically arranged definitions and sometimes lengthy descriptions of terms important to the study of linguistics and phonetics. References to other works are given at the end of each definition.
- Frawley, William ed-in-chief. International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
- (Olin Ref P 29 I61 2003+)
This updated and expanded edition of the ten-year-old International Encyclopedia of Linguistics includes 957 articles, a detailed index, and many See and See also references in the index and the text. It includes short biographies from the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. A systematic outline and a directory of contributors remain as features.
- Hartmann, R. R. K. and James, Gregory Dictionary of Lexicography. London, New
York: Routledge, 1998.
- (Olin Reference P 327 H37x)
Two thousand entries covering all aspects of lexicography. Contains an extensive, up-to-date bibliography.
- International Encyclopedia of Communications. 4 vols. New York: Oxford UP,
1989.
- (Uris Ref P 87.5 I61; also Mann Ref)
This four-volume set contains articles on all aspects of communication. Articles are arranged alphabetically, many have references to other articles, and all have bibliographies. This is an extremely valuable, detailed, and scholarly work, although quickly getting out-of-date.
- Lewandowski, Theodor. Linguistisches Wörterbuch. 4. Neu bearb. Aufl.
Heidelberg: Quelle & Meyer, 1984-1985.
- (Olin stacks P29 .L66 1984)
Approximately 2,000 terms are listed in this standard German dictionary of linguistics. It covers most schools of linguistic thought as well as selected terminology from allied fields such as psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics. Sometimes the equivalent term in one or more languages such as English, French, or Russian follows the German entry word. Many examples of the definitions are given in the text. Words used in the definitions which are themselves entries in the dictionary are so indicated. Significant entries are accompanied by bibliographies, quite extensive in some cases. Most of the references in the bibliographies are to German-language materials, but a significant number are also in English and other languages. Now out-of-date.
- The Oxford Companion to the English Language. Ed. Tom McArthur. New York:
Oxford UP, 1992.
- (Olin Ref PE 1628 O975; also Uris Ref, Mann Ref)
This Companion is an invaluable survey of the historical background and recent progress of a language that "has become a global resource." (p.xvii) Scholars have written accessible entries that discuss its varieties (Australian, Canadian, American, British, Yiddish, etc.), its precursors (French, Anglo-Saxon, Old English, etc.), its development, and its use. An excellent source of background information on the English language.
- Malmkjær, Kirsten. The Linguistics Encyclopedia. 2nd ed. London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
- (Olin Ref P 29 L52 2002)
Entries are alphabetically arranged, extensively cross-referenced, and include suggestions for further reading. They cover over 150 major and subsidiary fields of linguistic study. Key terms and topics are defined and discussed in context, emphasized in bold type. The scope is broad: physical and mental processes connected with language, its social and cultural role and the contribution its study can make to related disciplines and professions, theory and practice of language study, and diverse approaches to language description, analysis, and interpretation.
- Nash, Rose. Multilingual Lexicon of Linguistics and Philology: English, Russian, German,
French. Consultants: Mervin Alleyne, Gerd Fraenkel and Stephen Soudakoff. Coral Gables,
FL: University of Miami Press, 1968.
- (Olin stacks P 29 .N25)
The primary purpose of this lexicon is to help linguists read the works of scholars publishing in other languages. The main part of the book is an alphabetic listing of more than 5,000 English terms with their equivalents in Russian, German, and French. No definitions are given except in cases where no specific term has been established in one of the languages. Indexes for the Russian, German, and French terms provide entry points into the main section. Introductory and explanatory material is in all four languages. A bibliography listing the works from which the terminology was taken includes standard dictionaries, reference grammars, dictionaries of technical terms, language teaching manuals, introductory textbooks on linguistics, and journal articles.
- Pullum, Geoffrey K., and William A. Ladusaw. Phonetic Symbol Guide. 2nd ed.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
- (Olin Reference P221 .P85x 1996)
Anyone needing to find the meaning of an unfamiliar phonetic symbol will find this book very useful. Entries for characters are arranged dictionary-style according to the shape of the symbol. This system works well for the most part with cross references inserted at points where there might be confusion. A section with forty-nine diacritic entries follows the character entries. Major entries are for symbols recommended by the International Phonetic Association (IPA) as well as for those used in current American Transcriptional practice. Each major entry begins with a large, clear picture of the symbol along with its standard name, or a descriptive name made up by the authors. Other information that might be included is IPA usage, American usage, other uses, comments about what the symbol stands for, the history of the character, and typographic information about the character.
For the impact of Unicode on phonetic symbologys see SIL's Non-Roman Initiative page.
- Sebeok, Thomas A. Gen. Ed. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics. 2nd rev. ed. 3
Vols. New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994.
- (Olin Ref P 99 .E56 1994 )
An alphabetically organized listing of entries dealing with technical terms, names of major contributors to semiotics, fields with which semiotics interacts, etc. Entries contain references to further reading which are described in full in Volume 3 of the set.
- Trask, R.L. Dictionary of historical and comparative linguistics. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000.
- (Olin Ref P 143 T727x 2000)
An alphabetically organized listing of entries dealing with technical terms, names of major contributors to historical linguistics.
- Trask, R.L. Dictionary of phonetics and phonology. London; New York: Routledge, 1996.
- (Olin Ref P 216 T73x 1996 )
An alphabetically organized listing of entries dealing with technical terms, names of major contributors to phonology and phonetics.
- Van Ostermann, George Frederick. Manual of Foreign Languages for the Use of
Librarians... 4th ed. rev. enl. New York: Central Book, 1952.
- (Olin Ref Z 253 U581 1952)
A useful manual of concise information about some 130 languages and dialects, giving: the alphabet in the original letters or characters in varying forms, with transliteration into English and indication of pronunciation: brief rules for punctuation, capitalization, syllabication, transliteration, phonetics and grammar; cardinal and ordinal numbers; years, seasons, months, days, etc.
- Wilson, Robert A and Frank C. Keil eds. The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1999.
- (Olin Ref BF 311 M556x 1999+)
One of the best subject encyclopedias in the collection. It consists of about 500 authoritative, signed articles covering the entire field of cognitive studies. The articles are arranged in alphabetical order. Access is aided by very thorough name and subject indexes. Extensive cross-references help the user find her way. Each article also has a good, up-to-date bibliography. Six prefatory essays provide overviews of Philosophy, Psychology, Neurosciences, Computational Intelligence, Linguistics and Language , and Culture, Cognition and Evolution, with many reference to the articles themselves. There is a great deal of linguistic material from "historical linguistics" to "innateness of language". Highly recommended for the overviews, and the thoroughness of the articles. Beautifully produced.
WORLD LANGUAGES
- Campbell, George L. Compendium of the World's Languages. 2 ed. 2 vols. London: Routledge, 2000.
- (Olin Ref P 371 C36 2000)
The world contains over 5,000 separate languages, many with numerous dialects. There is considerable range; for example, Chinese is spoken by over 1.2 billion people, while Yagnob has fewer that 2,000 speakers. This two-volume reference source describes and analyzes just over 300 languages in a comparative format. Similar or related languages are grouped (e.g., Bantu, Celtic, Dravidian, Mongolian, Polynesian families), sometimes with separate entries.
- Comrie, Bernard. The World's Major Languages. New York: Oxford UP,
1987.
- (Olin Ref P203 .W92; also Uris Ref P 371 .W92)
This scholarly, authoritative work contains fifty chapters, each devoted to a language family or language and written by an expert in that field. Forty-four internationally renowned experts have contributed to this volume. The emphasis, given the expected readership of this guide, is on Indo-European languages with about half the chapters covering languages of this family. Each chapter on a language contains basic material on it structure and its social and historical background; in addition it may highlight different and unusual aspects of the language. The result is not only informative, but makes for interesting reading. References and a bibliography of grammars, surveys, histories, etc., follow each chapter. Figures, maps, tables, and examples are liberally used to illustrate the text.
- Ethnologue; Languages of the World. 13th ed., 1996 on the WWW at http://www.sil.org/ethnologue. In print :
Ethnologue : Languages of the world, 11th ed. Barbara F. Grimes, editor ; consulting
editors: Richard S. Pittman, Joseph E.Grimes. Dallas, TX : Summer Institute of Linguistics,
c1992.
- (Olin stacks BV 2370 .W9 A6 1992 )
The Ethnologue is a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries. It tries to bring together the best information available on the languages of the world. Entries represent separate languages or probable languages (highly divergent 'dialects') according to their best sources. Each entry lists number of speakers, alternate names, language family, where spoken, religion of speakers, etc. Search by virtually any variation of language name or dialect.
Ethnologue Language Name Index. A companion volume, an index of 39,304 language names, alternate names, dialect names, and alternate dialect names used in the Ethnologue. Accessed through the Web site at the Ethnologue page or in print as Ethnologue Index, Barbara Grimes, ed., Dallas TX: Summer Institute of Linguistics (Olin stacks BV2370 .A6 1988 Index).
Ethnologue Language Family Index is only available from the Web site. It provides information about language family relationships in outline form, showing the closeness of the relationship of each language to other languages.
- Katzner, Kenneth. The Languages of the World. 3 ed. London: Routledge, 2002.
- (Uris P 371 K38x 2002; the 2002 ed is also available online)
A very handy guide to the language families of the world. Contains brief descriptions of each language including where and by whom it is spoken. Part I covers language families (e.g. Altaic languages), Part II individual languages (e.g. Russian) including even Esperanto, and Part III a country survey of languages spoken and numbers of people speaking them. A bibliography and an index are included.
- Kloss, Heinz, and Grant D. McConnell, eds. Linguistic Composition of the Nations of
the World/Composition linguistique des nations du monde. Quebec: Presses de
l'Université Laval, 1974- .
- (Olin stacks +P120 .I61)
The first five volumes of what was to eventually have been a seven-volume set. At this point it is a partial statistical survey of the demography of the world's languages. In the aim to be comprehensive the authors have included all types of language figures (first language, second language, bilingualism, ethnic data, etc.) from all available sources (official, secondary, estimates, scientific, etc.).
Volumes 1-5 cover central and western South Asia, North America, Central and South America, Oceania, and Europe and the USSR, respectively. Each volume begins with an extensive introduction providing background information on languages of the area. This is followed by a bibliography of sources for the data. The statistical tables listing the data comprise the bulk of each volume. The editors provide an index of statistical offices and a language and country index. Explanatory material and headings throughout the volumes are in both English and French.
- Price, Glanville, ed. The Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.
- (Olin Ref P 380 E53x 1998; also Uris Ref)
Price's definition of Europe stretches from the Iceland to include Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. As for a definition of language, Price includes both living and extinct languages and many dialects. He further expands the scope of the encyclopedia by including the principal community, or immigrant, languages of Britain, France, and the Netherlands as well as creoles, pidgin languages, artificial languages, and sign languages. Entries in the encyclopedia are alphabetically arranged and range in length from several sentences to 10 pages for major languages. In general, articles cover the external history and sociolinguistic aspects of the language or languages, including such topics as origins and linguistic affiliations, literary use, standardization, scripts and orthography, geographical spread, contacts with other languages, and if applicable, present situation. The encyclopedia is replete with cross-references. Most articles have current bibliographies.
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Printed bibliographies go out of date quickly, but can be useful for reviewing the literature up to the date of publication. Since many online bibliographies index only recent material finding a thorough bibliography of earlier work can shorten research time considerably.
Only a sample of published bibliographies are listed here. A typical search strategy in the catalog would be a keyword search on the broad linguistic subject (truncate freely for these terms, e.g. "prosod?" --the Library of Congress Subject Heading is "Prosodic Analysis (Linguistics)")and "Bibliography." "Bibliography" can be limited to subject heading for books devoted to bibliography. Using it as a general keyword without a field designation will also retrieve books with bibliographies.
- Bibliography of Bibliographies of the Languages of the World. Troike, Rudolph C.
comp. Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1990.
- (Olin stacks Z 7001 .T84)
Although a number of limitations to the scope of this work are noted, it does fill a need for a bibliography of general and Indo-European language bibliographies. The compiler makes the point that too many language bibliographies exist and, in his introduction, calls for a moratorium on new ones. On the other hand, his scholarship also indicates specialized areas that require new bibliographies.
- Collison, Robert Lewis. Dictionaries of English and Foreign Languages: A
Bibliographical Guide.... 2nd ed. New York: Hafner, 1971.
- (Olin Ref Z 7004 D5 C71 1971)
Provides historical and critical notes on the general, special and bilingual dictionaries of the languages of Europe, Asia, and Africa, together with special lists of French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Russian, and Scandinavian dialect dictionaries, and an appendix listing technical dictionaries in various languages arranged by subject. This second edition, much revised and updated, adds new chapters on early and modern English-language dictionaries, the Celtic languages, and comparative philology.
- The Oxford Companion to the English Language. Ed. Tom McArthur. New York:
Oxford UP, 1992.
- (Olin Ref PE 1628 O975; also Uris Ref, Mann Ref)
This Companion is an invaluable survey of the historical background and recent progress of a language that "has become a global resource." (p.xvii) Scholars have written accessible entries that discuss its varieties (Australian, Canadian, American, British, Yiddish, etc.), its precursors (French, Anglo-Saxon, Old English, etc.), its development, and its use. An excellent source of background information on the English language.
COLLECTIONS
- Sebeok, Thomas Albert, ed. Current Trends in Linguistics. The Hague: Mouton,
1963-1976.
- (Olin stacks +P25 .S44)
As originally conceived, this series was to "assess the current state of linguistic activity in all fields and all countries" (Vol. 1, p. v). The fundamental organizing principle was geopolitical, i.e., orientation towards a particular area, except for volumes 3 and 11-13 which have a theoretical orientation instead. Though Sebeok was the general editor of the entire series, each volume also had its own editorial board. Contributors from all over the world were enlisted to write chapters in their areas of expertise. All but a handful of articles were either written in English originally, or translated into English before publication. As expected in a work of this size not all the volumes turned out as originally planned. Often a planned article or two are missing from the final work. In Sebeok's introductions, with which he begins most volumes, he points out these omissions. In successive volumes after the first, he also cites reviews of previous volumes in the series.
Each of the first thirteen volumes has biographical notes on its editors and contributors. Those volumes devoted to studies of particular areas have an index of languages and an index of names of the authors and coauthors of the bibliographies accompanying the chapters. The theoretical volumes, on the other hand, while having biographical notes and indexes of names, vary in having other features. (De Miller)
INDEXES (Note: Many of these indexes can be found online by searching the Library Gateway Find Databases feature or using the online catalog.
- Abstracts in Anthropology. Farmingdale: Boywood, 1970- .
- (Olin Ref Z 5112 A21+)
Abstracts are grouped in four sections: archaeology, ethnology (or cultural anthropology), linguistics, and physical anthropology. Covers books, articles, and conference papers. Author and subject indexes are included in each quarterly issue, and then cumulated annually. (see also Anthropological Literature)
- L'Annee Philologique on the Internet. Paris: Société d'édition "Les Belles Lettres", 1924/26.
- (available in print Olin Z 7016 A61: Room 604-605)
The most important and comprehensive bibliography in the field of classical languages and literature, history, archeology, epigraphy, and numismatics. Published annually, it includes citations (in all languages) to books, articles, collections of essays and reviews. It is divided into two parts. Part I covers classical authors and textual criticism (arranged alphabetically by ancient author). Part 2 is divided into subjects (philosophy, linguistics, history), subdivided chronologically then alphabetically, by the author of the book or article. An index of ancient authors and an index of authors of books and articles are included.
The Online version incorporates several different attempts to bring the most comprehensive bibliography of classical studies into electronic form. Volumes 40(1969)-75(2004) are now available.
- Anthropology Plus.
[Mountain View, Calif.] : The Research Libraries Group, Inc., 1993- .
- (online through Find Databases)
Anthropology Plus combines Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and the Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present.
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index through Web of Science.
- (online through Find Databases)
Web of Science provides access to the Science citation index expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Social sciences citation index (SSCI), and Arts & humanities citation index (A&HCI). These ISI citation databases are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed to be searched by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. They can also be searched for articles that cite a known author or work. Cited reference searching allows use of a given work as if it were a subject term, to identify more recent articles on the same topic. Aome links to full text of articles.
- Bibliographie Linguistique de l'Année ... et Complément des
Années
Précédentes. Vol.1-, 1939/47. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1949- .
annual.
The print publication has slowed to a crawl. There is free access to the index for the years 1993 - 2001 on the Web: BLonline
- (Olin stacks Z 7001 .P45 ; Last 10 vols. in Reference)
This serial index is of primary importance in linguistic research since it provides comprehensive, worldwide coverage of periodical articles, dissertations, and contributions to collected works such as festschriften and conference proceedings, including substantial reviews of such publications. Though comprehensive, it is not current. The bibliography of 1985, published in late 1987, has 16,600 entries from well over 1,000 serials and 320 collective works. Most of the entries are for items published in 1984 and 1985, but a substantial number are for works earlier than this. Another drawback of this bibliography is that it does not have a subject index. A classification scheme detailed in the table of contents partially compensates for this lack.
In very broad terms the bibliography has a section on general linguistics and related disciplines that is followed by various sections devoted to language groups and languages. An author index is included at the end of each volume; writers of book reviews, however, are not included in this index. Many of the entries contain brief notes.
- Bibliographie Linguistischer Literatur. (BLL) v. 4- , 1978- . An online version is available . We are exploring a subscription now.
- (Olin Ref Z 7003 B58++)
BLL covers articles in periodicals and essays in collective works, including conference and congress proceedings and festschriften. The number of periodicals it covers has gradually increased from 123 in Band 1 to about 770 titles in Band 12 (1986). Coverage is international in scope and quite current, with only a one- or two-year time lag.
Besides a division on general linguistics it also includes divisions on English, German, and Romance linguistics. Each of these divisions is subdivided into a form section, a systematic section, and a language section (the latter missing of course in the general linguistics division). The systematic section of each division contains all the entries for that division classified under appropriate subject categories. These entries may also qualify for listing again in the form and/or language sections. This whole classification scheme is fully explained in the introduction which, beginning with Band 7, appears in both German and English, as do the headings. A cumulative author index and subject and name index complete each annual volume.
This index and the Bibliographie Linguistique/Linguistic Bibliography are international in scope. The BLL, however, is more current and has the advantage of a subject index. On the other hand it does not begin to cover the variety of languages that the Bibliographie Linguistique does. (De Miller)
- Dissertation Abstracts International. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1969- .
- (online through Find Databases)
Formerly called Dissertation Abstracts (1938-1968), DAI provides abstracts for those American, Canadian and European dissertations available for purchase in microfilm or as photocopies. MLA will often refer its users to DAI. Relatively few of the theses listed are actually available in the Cornell University Library.
- ERIC. Washington, DC: Educational Resources Information Center, 1966- .
- (online through Find Databases)
A database of journal articles and research reports in the field of education. In addition to providing access to the standard education journals, it provides brief summaries of educational research reports and projects (mainly supported by the U.S. Office of Education). The unpublished reports are available on microfiche at Mann Library; they are called ERIC documents and are identified by a number in the AN field that is preceded by ED.
- Language Teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1982- .
- (Olin stacks PB 1 L28; online from 2001)
International in coverage although all abstracts appear in English. Includes coverage of materials on English as a second language as well as other material pertinent to modern language teaching. Subject and author indexes appear in the last issue of each volume. This quarterly has undergone several name changes since it first began (i.e. Language Teaching Abstracts (1968-1974) and Language Teaching and Linguistics Abstracts [1975-1981]).
- Linguistics Abstracts. Oxford: Blackwell, 1985- .
- (Olin Ref Z 7003 L75+; also available online)
A quarterly abstracting service covering the theory and practice of general linguistics. It does not attempt to serve the literature of applied linguistics or the historical study of language and dialects. Many of the abstracts are written by the authors of the articles cited, coming from just over 100 journals.
- LLBA; Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts. San Diego: Sociological
Abstracts Inc., 1967- .
- (online through Find Databases)
Formerly edited at the University of Michigan Center for Research on Language and Behavior in collaboration with the Bureau pour l'Enseignement de la Langue et de la Civilisation Françaises a l'Etranger and now published in San Diego by Sociological Abstracts, Inc., LLBA is designed to provide rapid access to scholarly articles relevant to language and language behavior, regardless of disciplinary focus. Abstracts are grouped under such headings as linguistics, psychology, communication sciences, hearing, etc. with appropriate subdivisions. Entries are drawn from more than 1,000 journals, reports, occasional papers, etc., in some 30 languages. Publication is quarterly with an annual cumulated index.
- Modern Language Association of America.
MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures. New York: Modern Language Assn.,
1963-.
- (online through Find Databases)
Linguistics has been included in MLA's coverage since the beginning issue, and as its scope and language coverage increased through the years so did its inclusion of linguistic items. As the American Bibliography it covered less than a dozen journals plus book sources and was limited to American writers on literature of various countries. The change to the title of Annual Bibliography in 1956 signaled a shift from national to international coverage with articles written in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Scandinavian, and Dutch. By 1962 ten east European languages had been added and the master list of periodicals expanded to about 1,000 sources. This expanded coverage continued with Celtic, Rumanian, medieval and neo-Latin, modern Greek, oriental, and African languages being included in the volume issued for 1968. All areas of linguistic study are covered with no restrictions concerning either the place of origin or publication or original language of works. It includes articles from journals, monographs, and collections (such as working papers, festschriften, conference papers and proceedings) as well as indexes, bibliographies, catalogs, handbooks, dictionaries, and reference works, plus citations to Dissertation Abstracts International. Reviews are generally not included unless they survey a number of scholarly works or make an independent contribution to scholarship. A look at the guide to the classified listings in volume 3 shows headings for topics of general linguistic interests well as headings for specific languages organized around such groupings as Indo-European, Caucasian, African, Native American, Sino-Tibetan, and invented languages. There is comprehensive coverage of theoretical and descriptive linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, mathematical linguistics, paralinguistics, stylistics, and translation. The inclusion of a subject index since 1981 greatly increases the usefulness of this bibliography. Publication lags about two years. It is somewhat more up-to-date in its online versions.
- PsycInfo. Washington: APA, 1984- .
- (online through Find Databases)
Indexes and abstracts 1300 leading international journals in psychology and related behavioral disciplines including psychiatry, sociology, anthropology, education, and pharmacology. The online version available on the Web, updated monthly, includes a periodical article index from 1967 to the present and a book chapters index from 1987 to the present, as well as all the records from the print version Psychological Abstracts available at Olin Ref (+Z 7203 P973) which began in 1927. All versions of this abstracting service use the vocabulary and index terms from the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms in Olin Ref (+Z 7203 P9731 1994).
- Second Language Instruction/Acquisition Abstracts. San Diego, Calif. : Sociological
Abstracts, Inc. 1991-.
- (Olin Ref + Z7001 .S45 )
This twice-yearly publication abstracts books, dissertations and articles in the field of second language acquisition. Topics covered include child language acquisition, bilingual education and translation. SLIA is an offshoot of LLBA and uses LLBA's thesaurus and reproduces some of LLBA's abstracts. Articles are selectively abstracted from around fifty specialized journals with some relevant articles from general linguistics journals. There is representative coverage of major European languages. For those involved in any aspect of second language acquisition this is a valuable snapshot of the literature in the field. Includes a book review bibliography, author index, source index and subject index.
- Sociological Abstracts. Wellesley Hills: Silver Platter, 1974- .
- (online through Find Databases)
Sociological Abstracts indexes and abstracts the world's leading journals in sociology. It covers articles published since 1974. There is extensive coverage of sociolinguistics. It is the online version of Sociological Abstracts, San Diego: Sociological Abstracts, Inc. 1952/53-. (Olin Ref + Z7163 .S67). Note the earlier coverage of the print version.
ONLINE ARTICLE REPOSITORIES
Increasingly scholars are submitting their papers to open access archives. These digital repositories capture, store, index, preserve, and redistribute digital research material. Many materials archived in digital repositories are searchable by search engines such as Google, as opposed to being sequestered in proprietary databases such as JSTOR or ProQuest.
- LingBuzz
- LingBuzz is an openly accessible repository of scholarly papers, discussions and other documents for "generative" linguistics. On top of its own papers, it also aggregates papers from the semantics archive, the OT archive, etc. making them all available and searchable in one place. The ultimate goal of lingBuzz is however larger than an archive of papers: It aims at gradually becoming both a community center for generative linguistics and an experiment in semi-automated article ranking.
- semanticsarchive.net
- This archive is intended to make it easier to find and distribute papers of interest to natural language semanticists.
- :LingBuzz: Distributed Morphology
- LingBuzz has a separate archive for morphology, although this can also be searched through the general site.
- Phonology: ROA Rutgers Optimality Archive
- The Rutgers Optimality Archive is a distribution point for research in Optimality Theory.
STYLE MANUALS
- The Chicago Manual of Style. 15th ed. Chicago: U of Chicago, 2003.
- (Olin Ref Desk Z 253 U69x 2003; also Uris)
"A standard work, thoroughly revised and updated, which serves as a how-to book for authors and editors. In three main sections (Bookmaking; Style; Production and printing), offering practical information and advice on all aspects of manuscript preparation, copyediting, and seeing a work through the press. Glossary of technical terms; bibliography; index." (Sheehy)
- Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th ed. New York: MLA, 2003.
- (Olin Ref Z 253 M68 2003; also Uris Ref)
This handbook is based on the MLA Style Manual and is intended as an aid for college students writing research papers. Included here is information on selecting a topic, researching the topic, note taking, the writing of footnotes and bibliographies, as well as sample pages of a research paper. Extremely useful for the beginning researcher.
- Modern Language Association of America. MLA Style Manual. 3rd ed. New
York: MLA, 1985.
- (Olin Z 253 A29 1985; also Uris)
Although somewhat scholarly in tone, the purpose of the MLA Style Manual is to provide for the researcher, at whatever level, a systematic, consistent format for all forms of citation. In addition, it provides information about proofreading, the use of abbreviations, transliteration and such simple, but not always obvious items, as margin width, pagination, and typeface.
- Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and
Dissertations. 6th ed. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1996.
- (Olin Ref PE 1478 T92 1996; also Uris Ref)
A newly revised and expanded version by B. Honigsblum, of Kate Turabian's standard guide for student writers. Fourteen chapters cover everything you've ever wanted to know about putting a paper together, from its introductory chapters to its bibliography.
BOOK CATALOGS
- Center for Applied Linguistics. Library. Dictionary Catalog of the Library of the
Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington D.C.. 4 vols. Boston: GK Hall, 1974.
- (Olin Ref Z 7005 C39++)
A G.K. Hall book catalog of the photographed cards from the library of the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington D.C. These catalogs provide access to the monograph holdings of a major linguistics library but do not include listings for the periodicals held by that library.
NATIONAL CATALOGS
-
OCLC/WorldCat (online through Find Databases)
- WorldCat is produced by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center), Inc. WorldCat consists
of over 35 million records that cite material owned by libraries around the world. Books,
magazines, recordings - virtually any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries is
included. WorldCat is updated daily.
- RLIN/Eureka (online through Find Databases)
- RLIN (the Research Libraries Information Network) is the computer network for members
of the Research Libraries Group, a nationwide network of research libraries of which Cornell is a
member. RLIN and the Eureka search software provide access to millions of records for books,
serials, musical scores, maps, films and recordings. These records can be searched by words or
phrases from titles, authors, and subjects.
BorrowDirect
& Interlibrary Loan
Requesting items not available at Cornell
If Cornell does not have the book you need, or if the book is currently charged out to another user, search the BorrowDirect system to locate a copy. See Interlibrary Loan, below, for article delivery. BorrowDirect is a book request and delivery system that enables Cornell faculty, staff, and students to request items from the combined collections of Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale. If an item is available through BorrowDirect, delivery can be expected in approximately 4 days. Please note: BorrowDirect can only be used for books and printed music. For journals, see Interlibrary Loan, below. Interlibrary Loan Services
To request electronic delivery of articles from journals not held at Cornell, or to request books and other items that are not held at Cornell and are not available through BorrowDirect, use Interlibrary Loan.
Please note:
Unlike BorrowDirect, Interlibrary Loan cannot be used for a book the library owns, even if the book is currently checked out to another user.
If a title you need is currently charged to another user, try BorrowDirect or place a recall on the item. Return to Table of ContentsTRANSLATORS AND TRANSLATIONS
- Index Translationum. Paris: UNESCO, 1949- .
- (Olin Z 6514 T7 I38+ and CD-ROM in the Olin ETC)
An ongoing bibliography, published by UNESCO, of translated books from a given year or years. Arrangement is alphabetical by author under the name of the country where the work was translated. (If, for example, you wished to know whether the French had translated Thomas Berger's Little Big Man, you would look first under FRANCE and then under BERGER, THOMAS.) Since these volumes appear every year or so and are not cumulated they can be somewhat frustrating to use. See the Cumulative Index listed above for a simpler approach to English translations.
ATLASES (this is a highly selective list)
- Atlas linguarum Europae (ALE). Sous la rédaction de A. Weijnen, et al.
Assen, The Netherlands: Van Gorcum, 1975-1979.
- (Olin closed stacks G 1797 .21 .E3 A88 1983++, request at circulation desk)
The purpose of this atlas is to present side-by-side comparisons of linguistic data taken from the languages on the European continent regardless of whether the languages are related or not. In doing so it hopes to reveal aspects of language contact.
- Kurath, Hans, et al. Linguistic Atlas of New England. Providence: Brown University, 1939-1943.
- (Olin stacks PE 2845 .L5 K96++)
Supervised by Hans Kurath, fieldwork for this seminal American survey took place between 1931 and 1933. It was finally published in three volumes with an accompanying handbook just before the end of World War II. Both the atlas and handbook have since been reprinted. Each volume of the atlas, also known as LANE, is in two parts. They contain double maps showing how residents pronounce certain words. The words are divided into topical areas such as time, family, farm, weather, and social relations. The handbook outlines the regional and social dialects of New England and provides a background for the critical evaluation and historical interpretation of the materials in LANE. (De Miller)
SPECIALIZED RESOURCES
- ARTFL. (online through Find Databases)
- A Cooperative Project of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the
University of Chicago, ARTFL is a research tool for scholars and students in all areas of
French Studies. It evolved from the construction of the dictionary Trésor de la Langue
Française, Paul Imbs, ed., Paris, Éditions du Centre national de la recherche
scientifique, 1971-1994. (Olin Ref ++ PC2625 .I32)
A corpus totaling some 150 million words was created, representing a broad range of written French -- from novels and poetry to biology and mathematics -- stretching from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. At present the corpus consists of nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. A Provençal database that includes 38 texts in their original spellings has recently been added. The Web interface allows one to search the corpus easily for words, stems, phrases and co-occurrences. Output is Keyword in Context or highlighted in a paragraph of text.
- Dictionary of American Regional English. Frederic G. Cassidy, chief ed. Cambridge,
MA: Belknap Press, 1985- .
- (Olin Ref PE 2843 D55; also Uris Ref)
The first volume (introduction and letters A-C) of this long-awaited work is finally a reality. Thinking and planning for it actually began with members of the American Dialect Society long before the official project start date in 1965. The dictionary, or DARE, as it has become known, is the rich reward for a massive effort by hundreds of contributors aided by funding from government and nongovernment sources, and the generous support of various institutions. An entry begins with the basic information: headword or words, part of speech, pronunciation (only when DARE has supporting oral data), variant spellings, etymology, geographical labels, usage labels, cross-references, and editorial notes. This information is followed by the meanings, numbered and with alphabetic subdivisions if necessary. Last come dated quotations supporting the meanings. (De Miller)
- Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, [2000]- .
- (available in print Olin Ref PE 1625 O86 2002+)
The OED presents in alphabetical series the words that have formed the English vocabulary from the time of the earliest records down to the present day, with all the relevant facts concerning their form, sense-history, pronunciation, and etymology. It embraces not only the standard language of literature and conversation, whether current at the moment, or obsolete, or archaic, but also the main technical vocabulary, and a large measure of dialectical usage and slang. This online edition contains the complete A to Z sequence of the Second Edition, its three-volume Additions Series, and also draft material from the revision programme, which represents the latest progress towards the Third Edition.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
- Classification, Class P, Subclasses P-PM: Index to Languages and Dialects. 3rd
ed. Washington, DC: Subject Cataloging Division, Processing Services, Library of Congress,
1983.
- (Mann Z 696 .U5 P65 1983)
The first edition of this was published in 1936, while the second edition originally issued in 1957 was reprinted in 1965 with supplementary pages containing additions and changes. This third edition is essentially an integration of the supplementary pages into the second edition. For each language or dialect listed here (sometimes qualified by the language group or geographic area to which it belongs) the appropriate Library of Congress subject classification is given. Many cross-references are provided. While it is designed for use by cataloging librarians, students doing research on a language or dialect might find this useful for determining the subject classification or subject heading used by the Library of Congress, but should not consider the language group or geographic qualifiers as definitive.
For the person who likes to browse the stacks, knowing the area classification for his/her subject matter is a must. Listed here are some of the classification numbers for modern languages:
Language Literature Portuguese PC 5001-5498 PQ 9001-9990 Spanish PC 4001-4977 PQ 6001-8921 Italian PC 1001-1977 PQ 4001-5991 French PC 2001-3761 PQ 1-3999 Russian PG 2001-2850 PG 2900-3698 German PF 3001-5999 PT 1-3961, PT 4801-4899, PF 3985-4000 Linguistics Generally found in the P's Note: In Olin Library the oversized books (indicated by the + or the ++ in their call numbers) are shelved separately from books of average size.
Citation Management Tools
What is citation management software?
Citation management software allows a user to organize and retrieve information, such as citations for books, articles, and Web sites, by interfacing with library databases. The citation manager then works with word processing software to insert properly formatted footnotes or citations into a paper and create a properly formatted bibliography.
Which citation management programs are used at Cornell?
Individuals at Cornell use a range of programs, but the Cornell University Library supports RefWorks and EndNote.
RefWorks vs. EndNote: A Comparison
RefWorks is web-based software that allows you to easily collect, manage, and organize bibliographic references by interfacing with databases. RefWorks also interfaces directly with Word, making it easy to import references and incorporate them into your writing, properly formatted according to the style of your choice. For more information and to set up an account go to http://refworks.cornell.edu.
EndNote must be purchased as personal software; there is no site license, although the program is available on most libary computer lab machines. A trial version can be downloaded. There is a student discount at the Campus Store.
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- Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL)
- Located at the International Linguistics Center in Dallas, Texas. The focus of this site is the
study of minority languages and cultures around the world. Academic domains represented here
include linguistics, anthropology, literacy, language learning, translation, and computing. This site
is intended to serve both SIL members and those in the general academic community.
- Ethnologue
- A database of basic information on several thousand languages and their speakers, around
the world. A project of SIL.
- Linguistics Resources
- A good general listing of linguistics on the Web from the WWW Virtual Library.
SOME LOCAL SITES
- The Electronic Text Center
(ETC)
- Linguistics Department
- Language Resource Center at Cornell University
- Asia Collections
- OKU Reference Division
- Linguistics Department
- This is a key site for information about classes, tours and schedules. It has links to class
bibliographies, departmental bibliographies, class outlines, and much else.
- Rare and Manuscript Collections
- The Rare and Manuscript Division houses several special collections including the Fiske Icelandic Collection and the Rhaeto-Romance Collection.
September 7, 2006
Problems? Suggestions? Contact Bob Kibbee, rk14@cornell.edu
URL: http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/newling04.htm