Library Guides: Linguistics 111

Lynne McGivern, Instructor
Developed by Gina Haycock, Librarian
 

Reference Sources

  • The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2008    R317.3 W927

  • The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language    R403 C957

  • Dictionary of Languages    R403 D137

  • Facts about the World's Languages    R403 F142

  • You Eat What you Are: People, Culture, and Food Traditions   R394.1 B248

  • MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers    R808.027 G437

  • Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association    R808.06615 P076

  • Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture    R944.0803 E56

  • Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture    R945.0903 E56

Online Reference Books:

  • Gale Virtual Reference Library - Gale provides access to 200 reference books. All the books are full-text and cover a wide variety of topics including art, science, literature and much more. All 200 titles can be searched simultaneously or individual titles may be selected. (Cost $20,000)

 

  • CredoReference - Credo provide full-text reference books on a wide variety of subjects (Cost $2500)

Circulating Books

The Library is purchasing a series of books published by Greenwood Press on the culture and customs of various countries. We currently have about 80 books in this series.
To find a book in this series, use the title search in the COS book catalog  For example, type in: Culture and customs of Mexico. Notice that the publisher for this entry is Greenwood Press that the copyright date is fairly current and that a subject heading reads: Subject:    Mexico--Social life and customs--20th century

Online Books:

  • NetLibrary E-books: Electronic full-text copies of published print materials, such as reference books, scholarly and popular books. They can be accessed from any computer on campus as well as remotely from home when you set up a user name and password from a campus computer

DATABASE FOR SCHOLARLY SOURCES:   

  • Expanded Academic ASAP(Infotrac)- Infotrac provides articles from more than 500 scholarly, trade and general-interest publications, as well as references for The New York Times. The databases integrate core titles in every major academic concentration; area  and issue-specific journals; academic journals with application in the professions; and publications with national news coverage and commentary.  The time period it covers is current year to date + the previous 3 years. The optional backfile extends coverage as far back as 1980.  (Annual Cost $9,732)
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    It works well when using a subject search. When entering a subject search, you can use broad terms, because the index will automatically help to narrow the search. This index is not completely full-text.

 

Database for a Combination of Source Types

  • ProQuest - This mega-database contains 17 databases including: newspapers and magazine/journals (Annual Cost $19,000) The Research Database in Proquest accesses publications such as Language in Society.
     
  • CountryWatch - provides a political and economic survey of 191 countries.  It also has updates from United Press International, other news organizations, and the CountryWatch.com staff which cover the latest economic, corporate, and environmental information on a country by country basis as they occur.
     

Sample key words to use in Searching:
World languages Modern languages
Linguistics Living languages
Syntax Language database
Phonology Language resources
Language families Social Life and Customs
Comparative linguistics Comparative grammar
Culture and customs Language of

  Web Sites

  • Ethnologue (Search the database by country or name of language. Learn how many people speak the language, what languages are similar, and in what countries they are spoken.)
  • Intute: Arts & Humanities: Linguistics sponsored by a network of UK universities and partners featuring web sites for education and research selected by subject specialists.
  • LingNet-The Global Language Network  (from the U.S. Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center)
  • Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks  maintained by a professor of East Asian languages at Ohio State University.
  • Yahoo Specific Languages    provides links on each listed language from one link to over sixty depending on the language.
  • The Rosetta Project sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation and Stanford University Libraries.
  • The Linguist List sponsored by Eastern Michigan University. It provides peer reviewed links on a wide variety of languages.

  • Language Materials Project sponsored by UCLA. Each Language Profile includes information about the historical, cultural, and social roots of the language, a map showing where the language is spoken, basic facts about the grammar, writing systems, and history of the language, and a wealth of other sociolinguistic information. Each page also includes contains links to the Language Materials Project citations for that language and a list of websites of interest to teachers and learners of the language.                                                                                                                   

  • Internet Public Library: Regional and Country Information provides a mix of country and language information.

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