Linguistics
Core Resources
Linguistic Bibliography Online
Covers all disciplines of theoretical linguistics, both general and language specific, from all geographical areas, including less-known and extinct languages, with particular attention to the many endangered languages of the world.
Linguistics Abstracts Online 1985+
More than 15,000 abstracts from nearly 300 linguistics journals published since 1985.
Oxford Bibliographies: Linguistics
Annotated bibliographies of the most recent and authoritative linguistics scholarship.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts 1973+
Indexes journals covering all aspects of the study of languages, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics.
International Encyclopedia of Linguistics
Includes 850 entries of articles on most areas of linguistics, including historical, comparative, formal, mathematical, functional, philosophical, and sociolinguistics.
Bibliography of Linguistic Literature - Bibliographie Linguistischer Literatur 1971+
Provides citations to journal articles, articles of conference proceedings, and other collective works as well as to monographs, dissertations, and Festschriften in general linguistics and all its sub-disciplines.
Supplementary Resources
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
This 2nd edition is much revised and updated. Covers most of the new areas of the fast developing field of linguistics in addition to the traditional ones. Recent developments in the study of individual languages are covered as is the development of new technologies in the increasingly interdisciplinary fields of language and linguistics research.
English.corpora.org
Online interface to the linguistic corpora created and maintained at Brigham Young University, including the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and Global Web-Based English (GloWbE). For access, Princeton affiliates must first create a user profile. Formerly known as Corpus.byu.edu.
Enhanced Electronic Grammars Online
Enables queries of grammatical features across a variety of languages.
Ethnologue: Languages of the World
Reference database profiling all of the world’s known living languages. Also see Ethnologue Global Dataset (19th ed.).
Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online
Lexicon of the most important languages and language branches of Indo-European, including Latin, Greek, Slavic, Proto-Celtic, Old Frisian, Armenian, Hittite, Luvian, the Iranian verb and Proto-Nostratic. (Proto-Germanic and Persian are forthcoming)
Linguistic Data Consortium
Major repository and distribution point for language resources, including linguistic corpora. To request access to a LDC corpus, please fill out the registration form (in the "Organization" box, type PRI to see the Princeton University option in the pull-down). Once you've registered, the LDC will contact Princeton's Organization Administrator, who will assess the request and facilitate the acquisition.
MLA International Bibliography
Provides citations to articles, books, book chapters, and dissertations on all aspects of modern literature, language, and linguistics.
Oxford English Dictionary: OED Online
Considered the most authoritative and comprehensive English language dictionary in the world. Includes information on the English language, its history, and the social, cultural, and political influences that have shaped the language through the centuries. Includes Historical Thesaurus.
Treasury of Linguistic Maps
Selection of linguistic maps published by De Gruyter.
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