Penn State University Libraries - Linguistics

To generate a complete current list of journals related to all aspects of linguistics in the Penn State University Libraries,

• go to the CAT's keyword search
• type "linguistics" in the first box as either a keyword or LC Subject Heading
• choose "periodicals" from the Material Type menu in the lower right-hand corner of the screen
• and click the "search" button.

For a more focused search:

• go to the CAT's keyword search,
• type "linguistics" in the first box, another relevant keyword (e.g. "Spanish") in the next box.
• Choose "periodicals" from the Material Type menu in the lower right-hand corner of the screen.
• Then click the "search" button.

If you know the name of a specific journal and want to verify the library's holdings, go to the CAT select the tab Browse Titles & More, select the "exact" radio button and enter the title, then press the "Journal Title" button to execute the search.

Full-text online access for many journals relating to linguistics and language teaching are available to the PSU community at the following sites:

• Language Learning & Technology, an online journal.
• Ingenta, Books and Journals on the E-Resource List.

The Linguist List

Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology

LingNet

Phonetic Resources

Foreign Language Teaching Forum

Dictionaries

These dictionaries aid in understanding the specialized vocabulary of linguistics and related disciplines by providing definitions to terms, abbreviations, and schools of thought.

• Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics
  P29.C65 1997 (Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection)

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedias offer a starting point for research by providing a brief summary of a topic and a bibliography that points to additional literature on that topic.

There are two major multivolume encyclopedias for linguistics and language studies:

• International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Vols. 1-4, Oxford University Press.
  P29.I58 1992 (Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection)
• The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Vols. 1-10, Pergamon Press.
  P29.E48 1994 (Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection)

Single volume encyclopedias and more specialized encyclopedias:

• The Linguistics Encyclopedia, P29.L52 2002 (Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection)
• Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning, P51.R66 2002 (Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection)
• Concise Encyclopedia of Educational Linguistics (Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection), P40.8.C66 1999
• Handbooks.  Handbooks in linguistics provide overviews to the field and guides to research.
• The Handbook of Linguistics, P121.H324 2001
• The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics, P129.O95 2002
• Handbook of Psycholinguistics, P37.H335 1994
  
  

Handbooks

Handbooks in linguistics provide overviews to the field and guides to research.

• The Handbook of Linguistics, P121.H324 2001
• The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics, P129.O95 2002
• Handbook of Psycholinguistics, P37.H335 1994

The CAT

Databases (A-Z)