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  Search terms for the catalog and databases
language language and culture
linguistics anthropological
grammar historical
philology discourse analysis
policy ethnolinguistics
dialects translating
variation case studies
phonetics oral tradition
phonemics sociolinguistics
morphology creole
semiotics pidgin
syntax psycholinguistics

  Reference works
The Atlas of North American English: Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change Landmark survey of the wide variety of dialects across the United States and Canada. Available online and in the library.
by William Labov, Sharon Ash, Charles Boberg.
Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter.
Reference Collection - 1st Level North
Call Number: PE 2808 .L26 2006
Concise encyclopedia of educational linguistics edited by Bernard Spolsky; consulting editor, R.E. Asher. Amsterdam; New York : Elsevier, 1999.
Reference Collection - 1st Level North
Call Number: P40.8 .C66 1999
A dictionary of linguistics and phonetics, 4th edition by David Crystal
Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell, 1997.
Reference Collection - 1st Level North
Call Number: P29 .C65 1997
International encyclopedia of linguistics, 2nd edition William J. Frawley, editor-in chief.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Reference Collection - 1st Level North
Call Number: P29 .I58 2003
Key concepts in language and linguistics by R.L. Trask.
London; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Reference Collection - 1st Level North
Call Number: P29 .T687 1999
Longman dictionary of applied linguistics by Jack Richards, John Platt, Heidi Weber ; consultants C.N. Candlin, John Oller, Jr.
Harlow, Essex, England : Longman, 1985.
Reference Collection - 1st Level North
Call Number: P129 .R5 1985
Oxford English dictionary Online dictionary only available from EMU computers or with your my.emich password.
Routledge dictionary of language and linguistics by Hadumod Bussmann ; translated and edited by Gregory Trauth and Kerstin Kazzazi.
Based on the 2nd German edition, with numerous revisions and additions.
London; New York : Routledge, 1996.
Reference Collection - 1st Level North
Call Number: P29 .B875 1996
The Cambridge encyclopedia of language by David Crystal.
Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Reference Collection - 1st Level North
Call Number: P29 .C64 1987
The Encyclopedia of language and linguistics R.E. Asher, editor-in-chief ; J.M.Y. Simpson, coordinating editor.
Oxford; New York : Pergamon Press, 1994-
Reference Collection - 1st Level North
Call Number: P29 .E48 1994
  Indexes to articles
MLA Bibliography Index to about 4000 periodicals published worldwide covering literature, languages, linquistics, and folklore. Updated ten times per year. (via FirstSearch)
Expanded Academic ASAP This multidisciplinary database indexes about 3,200 mostly academic titles and offers full-text from about 2,000 of the titles. Try using the Subject guide link in the left-hand blue column. Updated daily.
Electronic Collections Online (ECO) Index to the contents of over 2700 journals in a variety of subject areas. EMU is paying for access to online full-text for 664 of the titles. Articles are presented in page image formats (predominately PDF) that include all original content and images. The interface supports cross-journal searching and browsing within selected journals. Users can view bibliographic information for all journals and view full-text articles from journals to which their institution subscribes. Adobe's free Acrobat PDF viewer and CatchWord's free RealPage viewer are required to view the full-text articles. Updated daily. (via FirstSearch
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts This indexing/abstracting service covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. Updated monthly.
  Web resources
Languages of the World The description on the website reads as follows- "The main purpose of this website is to provide information about the language families of the world and their most important and populous members, including their history, status, their linguistic characteristics, and their writing in as simple and concise a way as possible."
The Linguist List Essential comprehensive and free resource for researchers in the field of Linguistics.
Global Language Monitor The about page on this website adequately describes the source as follows- "Austin, Texas-based, Global Language Monitor (GLM) documents, analyzes and tracks trends in language the world over, with a particular emphasis upon Global English."
BUBL Link web resources for languages and linguistics Probably the most complete and up-to-date academic index of web resources.

Maintainer of this guide: Robert Stevens, Humanities Librarian       last updated: August 9, 2008

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