Linguistics
This guide provides information and selected resources on linguistics available to you through UCalgary Library and the Internet
How to find academic articles
There are two main ways to search for academic articles:
- Using the library catalogue
- Using an academic database
Academic databases will often allow you to narrow your search to a particular subject or disciplinary area, which can mean that you get more relevant results more quickly.
The Building Blocks for Library Research video series has useful information about using databases to find academic, including developing search strategies.
Linguistics Databases
- Linguistics and Language Behavior AbstractsLinguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
- International Bibliography of the Social SciencesThe International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) is an essential online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research. IBSS includes over two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951.
- Linguistics Abstracts OnlineLinguistics Abstracts Online provides access to over 72000 linguistics abstracts from over 600 journals.
Related databases
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new windowThe MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. It is produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), an organization dedicated to the study and teaching of language and literature. The electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1925 and contains over 2 million citations from more than 4,400 periodicals (including peer-reviewed e-journals) and 1,000 book publishers. It is compiled by the staff of the MLA Department of Bibliographic Information Services with the cooperation of more than 100 contributing bibliographers in the United States and abroad. Such international coverage is represented by literature from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America, and while the majority of records are from English-language publications, at least sixty other languages are represented including French, Spanish, German, Russian, Portuguese, Norwegian, and Swedish.
- Coverage is from 1925 to the present.
- Bibliography of Asian Studies This link opens in a new windowBibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains nearly 900,000 records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present. BAS uniquely also includes citations to Western-language chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, Festschriften, and more. All entries are easily searchable by author, title, year of publication, subject, country, journal title, keyword, and ISSN. It includes coverage of many important journals, particularly ones published in Asia, which are not indexed anywhere else. Includes the full content of the annual printed Bibliography of Asian Studies back to 1971.
- Coverage is from 1971 to present.
- Bibliography of indigenous peoples in North America This link opens in a new windowBibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America (BIPNA) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of Indigenous culture, history, and life in North America. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, education, the gaming industry, religion, folklore, economic development, acculturation, mythology, missions, tribal governments, and ethnohistory. BIPNA contains more than 350,000 citations for newspapers, magazines, academic journals, books, reviews, and trade publications from the United States and Canada with expanded content from Great Britain and Australia. Dates of coverage for content range from the sixteenth century to the present.
Interdisciplinary Databases
Article Archives
Linguists use online article archives to share their papers - published or not - with the community. These can be generalist or domain-specific. Several such archives are listed below:
- LingBuzz: https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz
- An openly accessible repository of scholarly papers, discussions and other documents for linguistics.
- Rutgers Optimality Archive: https://roa.rutgers.edu/
- A distribution point for research in Optimality Theory and its conceptual affiliates.
- SemanticsArchive.net: https://semanticsarchive.net/
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