Librarian
Isabela Oliveira
She/Her/Hers
Contact:
4th Libe - Room 467
507-222-5304
ioliveira@carleton.edu
507-222-5304
ioliveira@carleton.edu
Subjects: Africana Studies, French, German, History, Linguistics, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Philosophy, Religion, Russian
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Key Reference Works
- Oxford Handbooks This link opens in a new window
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High quality treatments of major topics, written by major scholars in the field and pointing toward key literature.
EthnologueCall Number: REF P371 .E83Availability and more information from Catalyst...
Key source for finding how languages are related to other languages. Catalogs all known living languages. Online version includes links to language resources including primary data.
- Glottolog
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A comprehensive catalogue of the world's languages, language families and dialects, including references to source material (grammars and more) for linguists.
World Atlas of Language StructuresCall Number: Ref P143 .W67 2005Availability and more information from Catalyst...
The Online version is easily browsable and searchable, and sources it's information thoroughly, leading you to important descriptions of specific languages and structures.
The Encyclopedia of Language and LinguisticsCall Number: REF P29 .E48 2006Availability and more information from Catalyst...
Signed articles with bibliographies. Many are illustrated. Volume 10 contains a glossary and an index.
International Encyclopedia of Linguistics by Call Number: REF P29 .I58 2003 and OnlineISBN: 0195139771Publication Date: 2003-05-01Availability and more information from Catalyst...
Signed articles, cross-referenced, with bibliographies and some illustrations.
Finding Scholarship
Key research tools for linguists
- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
The most comprehensive source of scholarly work on Linguistics. All aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Covers 1973 - current. - MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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Searches through citations, subject headings, and some abstracts
The premier database for linguistics and literary studies, this index includes articles, dissertations, books, book chapters, and more. Covers 1926 - current. - JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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(Searches through citations and the full text)
Provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Most journals are included from their first issue until 5 years ago. - Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
A vast index of literature from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Also offers cited reference searching to see who has cited a particular document. 1898 - current.
- Google Scholar - Cited Reference Searching
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To see who has cited an article or book recently, search for the article or book in Google Scholar. Then click the "Cited by" link under the appropriate result. You can then search within the list of works that cited your original work. Sometimes you will find free PDFs by clicking on the "all x versions" links as well. Learn more! - Linguistics Resources from SILSIL collects and organizes links to linguistics sources on the internet. You can also search these sources.
- Rutgers Optimality ArchiveAn ever-growing collection of research in Optimality Theory and related theories of grammar.
Finding Dissertations
While not considered formally published, dissertations can provide a lot of really useful information. They are especially useful as pointing tools, since their literature reviews and bibliographies are usually very rich sources of information.
I also list them separately here because the FindIt button doesn't work well to link you to the full text of dissertations, so if you come across one in a research database it's best to bring the citation information directly to one of these specialized collections of dissertations in order to find the full text.
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global This link opens in a new window
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Find dissertations and some masters theses from universities in 88 countries. Most documents published since 1997 also include the full text. Covers 1861 - current.
- EThOS: online doctoral theses from the British LibraryEThOS is working toward a goal of having records for all doctoral theses from the UK dating back to 1800, and full text for as many of these as can be managed.
- CRL: Center For Research Libraries This link opens in a new window
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(Searches through citations and subject indexing)
This collection includes microfilm for foreign newspapers and foreign dissertations. You may borrow microfilm reels and other materials through Interlibrary Loan.
Writing Linguistics Papers
- Leipzig Glossing RulesThe Leipzig Glossing Rules have been developed jointly by the Department of Linguistics of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and by the Department of Linguistics of the University of Leipzig. They consist of ten rules for the "syntax" and "semantics" of interlinear glosses, and an appendix with a proposed "lexicon" of abbreviated category labels.
