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Linguistics Reference Books

Dictionary Plus Linguistics
ISBN: 0191831077
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics by P. H. Matthews
Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics by Carol A. Chapelle (Editor)
The Linguistics Encyclopedia by Kirsten Malmkjaer (Editor)
Call Number: General Collection P29 .L52 2004

ISBN: 0415222109

Publication Date: 2004

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Ethnologue.com
Free searchable database provides information about languages spoken around the world. Includes indexes of language names, language families, and countries.

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Databases have records in them for articles and other documents. Sometimes you will find the entire document in the database as well.

These databases index articles and documents from anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics journals as well as journals in related disciplines.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
Abstracts. 1973-present. Citations to journal articles, books and other materials in the field of linguistics

Description: Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) covers all aspects of the study of language. All of the various fields of linguistics are included such as descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. Contains some full text.
Time Period: 1973 to present
Sources: Indexes more than 1,500 serial publications and thousands of books, book chapters, and dissertations.
Subject Headings: English & Linguistics, Psychology, Social Sciences (Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics)
Primary Materials: Books/e-books, Conference Papers, Dissertation and Theses, Journal Articles, Reviews

Celtic Studies Bibliography
Free database developed by the Celtic Studies Association of North America through the Celtic Studies program at UCLA Citations from periodicals, books, proceedings and other publications of Celtic languages and literature.

Abstracts in Anthropology 2010-2015
2002-present; Includes citations for and summaries of journal articles, books and conference papers in cultural and physical anthropology, archaeology and linguistics. Print equivalent: Ref GN1 .A15

Description: Abstracts in Anthropology indexes several hundred periodicals and covers a broad spectrum of significant, current anthropological topics such as human speech, physiology, artifacts, and history.
Time Period: 2010 to 2015
Sources: Indexes several hundred periodicals.
Subject Headings: Humanities, Science, Social Sciences
Primary Materials: Abstracts, Citations
AnthroSource
1970s to present; Subscription database of scholarly, peer-reviewed journals from the American Anthropological Association

Description: Full-text content from peer-reviewed journals and newsletters published by the American Anthropological Association (AAA).
Time Period: 1970's to present
Sources: Search or browse more than 30 different publications.
Subject Headings: Humanities, Philosophy & Religion, Science, Social Sciences
Primary Materials: Citations, Journal Articles, Reviews
Anthropological Index Online
1957-present; Free database developed by the Royal Anthropological Institute. Citations to scholarly journal articles from all fields of anthropology

Description: Key database in the field of anthropology. Based on the collection of the Anthropology Library at the British Museum (Museum of Mankind). Provided at no cost to users worldwide by the Royal Anthropological Institute.
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Time Period: 1957 to present
Sources: Contains nearly 800 journals.
Subject Headings: Humanities, Philosophy & Religion, Science, Social Sciences
Primary Materials: Abstracts, Citations

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