Linguistics

• English Language Etymology
  
• Grammar Comparative and general
  
• Language Acquisition
  
• Language and Languages
  
• Phonetics
  
• Phonology
  
• Psycholinguistics
  
• Semantics
  
• Semiotics
  
• Sociolinguistics
  
• Syntax
  
• Writing, history
  

• P 1-85 General Linguistics
• P 87-96 Communication and Mass Media
• P 99-99.4 Semiotics
• P 99.5-99.6 Nonverbal communication
• P 101-401 Language, Linguistic Theory, Comparative Grammar
• P 118-118.75 Language Acquisition
• P 121-149 Science of Language
• P 201-299 Comparative Grammar
• P 302-302.87 Discourse Analysis
• P 325-325.5 Semantics

Linguistics Article Indexes

• Communication & Mass Media Complete
• MLA International Bibliography

Other Useful Indexes

• Academic Search Premier
• Cambridge Journals Online
• Canadian Business and Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete
• Canadan Newsstand Major Dailies
• Canadian Periodical Index (CPI.Q)
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• Humanities Index
• JSTOR

Selected Online Reference Tools

• Oxford English Dictionary
• Oxford Reference Online - access to 100 key Oxford dictionaries and reference works.

Linguistics e-Journals

• Click here for a list of full-text electronic Linguistic journals available at Kwantlen Library.
• Journal of Language and Linguistics
• Language Learning and Technology
• Linguistic Discovery
• Web Journal of Modern Language Linguistics

Reference books on Linguistics

• International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences

The Linguistics section has a subsection on Syntax and Morphology, with chapters on Morphological Case, Morphology, Negation, Pronouns, Word Classes and Parts of Speech. Each entry includes lists for further reading. An excellent starting point.
• A dictionary of linguistics & phonetics
  
• The concise Oxford dictionary of linguistics
  
• The handbook of linguistics
  
• The handbook of historical linguistics
  

Reference Books on Language

• A student's dictionary of language and linguistics
  
• An encyclopedic dictionary of language and languages
  
• The atlas of languages : the origin and development of languages throughout the world
  
• Atlas of the world's languages in danger of disappearing
  
• The Cambridge encyclopedia of the English language
  
• Classification and index of the world's languages
  
• Dictionary of languages: the definitive reference to more than 400 languages
  
• Ethnologue
  
• Language and communication: a cross-cultural encyclopedia
  
• The languages of the world
  
• The Oxford dictionary of English etymology
  
• The World's major languages
  

• CHILDES
-Child Language Data Exchange System. Includes database of transcripts, computerized analysis tools, etc.
• Ethnologue: Languages of the World
-Includes country index with maps; language names, codes, families
• iLove Languages
• The Linguist List
-Comprehensive linguistics resource with thousands of links and listserv archives
• Linguistic Data Resources on the Internet
-topically organized; from the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL)
• MultiWordNet
-Multilingual lexical database
• Omniglot
-Information about over 150 different writing systems
• Oxford Text Archive
-holds several thousand electronic texts and linguistic corpora in a variety of languages
• WordNet
-a lexical database for English from Princeton
• Dialect Topography
-University of Toronto research project that investigates what English words people use in different regions

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• Canadian Linguistic Association
• International Phonetic Associaton
• Linguistic Society of America
• American Dialect Society

Kwantlen Departments & Programs

• Department of Modern Languages-French, German, Japanese, Mandarin, Punjabi, Spanish, Linguistics
• Department of English

Citation Styles

• APA - American Psychological Assoc. guidelines
• MLA - Modern Language Assoc. standards
• Other Citation Styles