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Language and Linguistics Collections

John Rawlings, rawlings@stanford.edu (650)723-3101

Search LLBA for abstracts of articles from 2,000 serials, recent books, dissertations | MLA international bibliography | Bibliographie Linguistique = Linguistic Bibliography Online | Dissertation Abstracts | Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature | other indexes & library catalogs
Read articles in linguistics e-journals, search by journal title
Corpora: Stanford's resources
Look up background information

• MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: Linguistics & Language
• International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (OUP)
• Int. Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Britannica Online
• Wikipedia
• Elsevier's 14 v. The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics (2006) is shelved in the Info Center P29.E48; not available online through the library

Consult other reference books in the Information Center and on the web
Explore the internet:

• A Stanford linguistics portal
• The LINGUIST List: Web-Accessible Linguistic Sources, Departments, and Information
• The Human-Languages Page
• language data, corpora, online archives
  • Stanford's Corpora Resources
  • Ethnologue. An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 6,912 known living languages. Ethnolgue print is shelved in the Info Center P106.E8.
  • The world atlas of language structures. WALS is a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars). The print and CD-ROM version is located in the library.
  • Association for Linguistic Typolgy databases portal
  • Linguistic Data Consortium | Corpus Linguistics by Michael Barlow
  • National Gallery of the Spoken Word | Collins Cobuild The Bank of English | Old English Corpus | Middle English Compendium | Humanities Digital Text Service (London-Lund, etc.)
    selection of online archives:
  • ASEDA: the Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies)
  • AILLA: The Archive of Indigenous Languages of Latin America (U. Txas Austin)
  • WEB Bibliography for African Languages and Linguistics (CNRS)
  • Dictionary and Bibliography of South American languages (Alain Fabre)
  • Bibliography of South Asian languages (John Peterson)

• sociolinguistics & applied linguistics
  • Language Policy (J.W. Crawford)
  • Less Commonly Taught Languages | Language Varieties pidgins, creoles, regional dialects, minority dialects and indigenized varieties
  • Center for Applied Linguistics | NCELA: National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Educational Programs

• Stanford: Linguistics dept. | CSLI