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Library Resources — Databases

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Library Resources — Databases

The following resources will be useful for identifying articles on languages and linguistics from a variety of sources, including magazines, journals, newspapers, and books. Thses are not the only databases that you cn use, however. For example, if you were writing a paper on language acquisition you would likely want to also include psychology, sociology, and education databases. Go the the Library's CentralSearch service to identify additional relevant subject databases on your topic. Please note that you will need to be logged into the library system in order to access these databases off campus. To log in and return to this page, click here.

Reference Books (2nd Floor)

The library's Reference Collection houses a wealth of language and linguistics resources. An excellent starting place for researching any topic, the library's Reference Collection can help you to build a better understanding of your topic by providing you with definitions of terms, explanations of key concepts, and references to additional resources in books and periodicals.

Language Dictionaries

 

Dictionaries -- Acooli

Crazzolara, J. Pasquale. Study of the Acooli Language Grammar and Vocabulary. London: Oxford University Press,  1955.
PL8041.C7 1955

Dictionaries -- Afrikaans

Kritzinger, Matthys Stefanus Benjamin. Groot Woordeboek: Afrikaans-Engels, [English-Afrikaans]. Pretoria: Van Schaik (J.L.), 1972.
PF862.K7 1972

Dictionaries -- Anglo-Saxon

Bosworth, Joseph. Anglo-Saxon Dictionary; Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late Joseph Bosworth. London: Oxford University Press, 1972.
PE279.B52 1972

Bosworth, Joseph. Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Supplement; Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late Joseph Bosworth. London: Oxford University Press, 1972.
PE279.B52 1972 suppl.

Jember, Gregory K. English-Old English, Old English-English Dictionary. Boulder: Westview Press, 1975.
PE279.J4

Sweet, Henry. Student's Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967.
PE279.S8 1967

Dictionaries -- Arabic

Elias, Elias A. Elias' Modern Dictionary, English-Arabic. Cairo: Elias' Modern Pub. House, 1980.
PJ6640.E42 1980

Elias, Elias A. Elias' Modern Dictionary, Arabic-English. Cairo: Elias' Modern Pub. House, 1980.
PJ6640.E59 1980

Karmī, Hasan Sa‘īd. Al-Manar; an English-Arabic Dictionary. London: Longman, 1971.
PJ6640.K3 1971

The Oxford English-Arabic Dictionary of Current Usage. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972.
PJ6640.O93

Wortabet, John. English-Arabic and Arabic-English Dictionary. New York: F. Ungar Pub. Co., 1954.
PJ6640.W57 1954

Dictionaries -- Armenian

Yacoubian, Adour H. English-Armenian and Armenian-English Dictionary: Romanized. Brooklyn, NY: P. Shalom, 1970.
PK8441.Y3 1970

Dictionaries -- Bulgarian

Angliisko-Bulgarski Rechnik. Sofia: BAN, 1973.
PG979.A48 1973

Rusev, R. Bulgarian-English Dictionary. New York: F. Ungar Pub. Co., 1953.
PG979.R813

Dictionaries -- Cahuilla

Seiler, Hansjakob. Cahuilla Dictionary. Banning, CA: Malki Museum Press, 1979.
PM731.Z5S44

Dictionaries -- Cantonese

Huang, Parker Po-fei. Cantonese Dictionary: Cantonese-English, English-Cantonese. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970.
PL1736.H8

Dictionaries -- Chehalis

Kinkade, M. Dale. Upper Chehalis Dictionary. Missoula, MT: Linguistics Laboratory, Unviersity of Montana, 1991.
PM2513.K56 1991

Dictionaries -- Chickasaw

Munro, Pamel. Chickasaw: an Analytical Dictionary. Norman: Univeristy of Oklahoma Press, 1994.
PM801.Z5M85 1994

Dictionaries -- Chinese

Bergman, Peter M. Basic English-Chinese, Chinese-English Dictionary: Using Simplified Characters (with an Appendix Containing the Original Complex Characters) Transliterated in Accordance with the new, Official Chinese Phonetic Alphabet. New York: New American Library, 1980.
PL1455.B4 1980b

Chen, Janey. Practical English-Chinese Pronouncing Dictionary: English, Chinese Characters, Romanized Mandarin and Cantonese. Melbourne: Paul Flesch, 1970.
PL1455.C579 1970

Corbeil, Jean Claude. Facts on File English/Chinese Visual Dictionary: Look Up the Word from the Picture, Find the Picture from the Word. New York: Facts on File Publications, 1988.
PL1455.C675 1988

Zheng, Yili. New English-Chinese Dictionary. Beijing: Commercial Press, 1984.
PL1455.C585 1984b

Dictionaries -- Czech

Cermak, Alois. English Czech, Czech English Dictionary (Novy Kapesni Slovnik Anglicko-Cesky a Cesko-Anglicky). New York: Saphrograph Co., 1963.
PG4640.C38 1963

Dictionaries -- Dakota

Williamson, John Poage. English-Dakota Dictionary. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1992.
PM1023.W62 1992

Dictionaries -- Danish

Vinterberg, Hermann. Dansk-Engelsk Ordbog. Copenhagen: Gyldenal, 1978.
PD3640.V48 1978

Vinterberg, Hermann. Engelsk-Dansk Ordbog. Copenhagen: Gyldenal, 1976.
PD3640.V52 1976

Dictionaries -- English, Middle

Middle English Dictionary. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1952.
PE679.M54

Stratmann, Franz Heinrich. Middle-English Dictionary: Containing Words Used by English Writers from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951.
Pe679.S7 1951

Dictionaries -- English, Modern

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
PE1628.A623 2000

Cambridge Dictionary of American English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
PE1628.C22 2000b

McCutcheon, Marc. Descriptionary. New York: Facts on File, 2000.
PE1591.M415 2000

Oxford American Dictionary and Language Guide. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
PE2835.O9 1999b

Oxford English Dictionary Online. (http://www.oed.com) (requires subscription)

Random House Webster's College Dictionary. New York: Random House, 2000.
PE1628.R28 2000

Dictionaries -- English, Old see Anglo-Saxon

Dictionaries -- Finnish

Wuolle, Aino. Finnish English, English Finnish Dictionary: Suomi Englanti, Suomi. Brooklyn: P. Shalom, 1967.
PH279.W856 1967

Dictionaries -- French

The Concise Oxford French Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980.
PC2640 C54 1980

Leitner, Moses Jonathan. Dictionary of French and American Slang. New York: Crown Publishers, 1965.
PC3741.L58

New Cassell's French Dictionary; French-English, English-French. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1968.
PC2640.C3 1968

Perreau, Robert A. Concise French-American Dictionary of Figurative and Idiomatic Language. Paris: Ophrys, 1972.
PC2460.P4

Societe du Parler Francais au Canada. Glossaire du Parler Francais au Canada. Quebec: Les Presses de l'Universite Laval, 1968.
PC3637.S6 1968

Dictionaries -- German

Betteridge, Harold T. The New Cassell's German Dictionary; German-English, English-German. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1965.
PF3640.B45 1965

Eggeling, Hans F. A Dictionary of Modern German Prose Usage. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961.
PF3640.E38 1967

Langenscheidt New Muret-Sanders Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English and German Languages. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969.
PF3640.L2573

The Oxford Duden German Dictionary: German-English, English-German. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.
PF3640.O94 1990

Dictionaries -- Greek

Liddell, Henry George. Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.
PA445.E5L6 1996

Oxford Paperback Greek Dictionary. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
PA1139.E5O94 1997

Dictionaries -- Hausa

Abraham, Roy Clive. Dictionary of the Hausa Language. London: University of London Press, 1962.
PL8233.A7 1962

Newman, Roxana Ma. English-Hausa Dictionary. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
PL8233.N49 1990

Dictionaries -- Hawaiian

Pukui, Mary Kawena. Hawaiian Dictionary; Hawaiian-English, English-Hawaiian. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1971.
PL6446.P795

Pukui, Mary Kawena. Hawaiian Dictionary; Hawaiian-English, English-Hawaiian. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986.
PL6446.P795 1986

Dictionaries -- Hebrew

Comay, Arie. NTC's Hebrew and English Dictionary. Chicago: NTC, 2000.
PK1936.P3 1964

Waldstein, A.S. Hebrew English, English Hebrew Dictionary. Brooklyn: P. Shalom Pub., 1967.
PJ4833.W3 1967

Dictionaries -- Hindi

Pathak, R. C. Bhargava's Standard Illustrated Dictionary of the Hindi Language (Hindi-English Edition). Varanasi, India: Bhargava Book Depot, 1964.
PK1936.P3 1964

A Practical Hindi-English Dictionary. Delhi: National Publishing House, 1975.
PK1987.P7 1975

Dictionaries -- Hungarian

Országh, László. A Concise English-Hungarian Dictionary (Angol-Magyar Kéziszótár). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1979.
PH2640.O67 1979

Országh, László. A Concise English-Hungarian Dictionary. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1990.
PH2640.O6513 1990

Országh, László. Magyar-Angol Szótár. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1975.
PH2640.O67 1975

Dictionaries -- Icelandic

Arngrimur Sigurdsson. Islenzk-Ensk Ordabok. Reykjavik: Leiftur, 1975.
PD2437.A71975

Taylor, Arnold R. Icelandic-English English-Icelandic Dictionary. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1990.
PD2437.T395 1990

Dictionaries -- Indonesian

Echols, John M. Indonesian-English Dictionary. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1963.
PL5076.E25 1953

Dictionaries -- Irish

Dinneen, Patrick S. Irish English Dictionary. New York: P. Shalom, 1967.
PB1291.D52 1967

Dictionaries -- Italian

Cassell's Italian Dictionary; Italian-english, English-Italian. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1967.
PC1640.C33 1967b

Hazon, Mario. Garzanti Comprehensive Italian-English, English-Italian Dictionary. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1961.
PC1640.H35 1963

Reynolds, Barbara. The Cambridge Italian Dictionary. Cambridge: University Press, 1981.
PC1640.R4

Dictionaries -- Japanese

Hepburn, J.C. Japanese and English Dictionary, With an English and Japanese Index. Rutland, VT: C.E. Tuttle, 1983.
PL679.H5 1983

Hyojun, Ramaji Kai. All-Romanized English-Japanese Dictionary. Rutland, VT: C.E. Tuttle, 1974.
PL679.H9 1974

Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942.
PL679.K4 1942

Nelson, Andrew Nathaniel. Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary. Rutland, VT: C.E. Tuttle, 1974.
PL679.N4 1974

Dictionaries -- Javanese

Horne, Elinor Clark. Javanese-English Dictionary. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974.
PL5166.H64

Dictionaries -- Khmer

Huffman, Franklin E. English-Khmer Dictionary. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.
PL4326.H85

Dictionaries -- Kikuyu

Benson, T.G. Kikuyu-English Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964.
PL8379.B4

Dictionaries -- Korean

Martin, Samuel Elmo. Korean-English Dictionary. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967.
PL937.E5M3

Underwood, Joan V. Concise English-Korean Dictionary Romanized. Rutland, VT: C.E. Tuttle, 1954.
PL937.U6 1954

Dictionaries -- Lao

Marcus, Russell. English-Lao, Lao-English Dictionary. Rutland, VT: C.E. Tuttle, 1970.
PL4251.L34M3 1970

Dictionaries -- Latin

Cassell's New Latin Dictionary. Latin-English, English-Latin. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1960.
PA2365.L3C3 1960

Oxford Latin Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982.
PA2365.E5O9 1982

Dictionaries -- Luganda

Snoxall, R.A. Luganda-English Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967.
PL8201.S6

Dictionaries -- Manchu

Norman, Jerry. Concise Manchu-English Lexicon. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1978.
PL477.N67

Dictionaries -- Maori

Biggs, Bruce. Complete English-Maori Dictionary. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1981.
PL6465.Z5B5

Dictionaries -- Mohawk

Maracle, David Kanatawakhon. One Thousand Useful Mohawk Words. Guilford, CT: Audio-Forum, 1992.
PM1883.M37 1992

Dictionaries -- Nahuatl

Bierhorst, John. Nahuatl-English Dictionary and Concordance to the Cantares Mexicanos: with an Analytic Transcription and Grammatical Notes. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1985.
PM4068.6.C33B5 1985

Dictionaries -- Navajo

Wall, C. Leon. Navajo-English Dictionary. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1994.
PM2008.W3 1994

Dictionaries -- Norwegian

Berulfsen, Bjarne. Engelsk-Norsk Ordbok. Oslo: Kunnskapsforl., 1978.
PD2691.B4 1978

Kirkeby, Willy. English-Norwegian Dictionary: Engelsk-Norsk Ordbok. Oslo, Norway: Norwegian University Press, 1989.
PD2691.K49 1989

Kirkeby, Willy. Norsk-Engelsk Ordbok. Oslo, Norway: Kunnskapsforl., 1978.
PD2691.K5 1978

Dictionaries -- Ojibwe

Nichols, John. Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
PM853.N53 1995

Dictionaries -- Persian

Aryanpur Kashani, Abbas. The Combined New Persian-English and English-Persian Dictionary. Lexington, KY: Mazda Publishers, 1986.
PK6379.A694 1986

Hayyim, Sulayman. The Shorter English-Persian Dictionary: Treating Some 40,000 of the Commonest and the Most Essential English Words and Idioms for Use by Iranian Students of the English Language. Tehran: Y. Beroukhim, 1976.
PK6379.H34 1976

Steingass, Francis Joseph. A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary: Including the Arabic Words and Phrases to Be Met with in Persian Literature, Being Johnson and Richardson's Persian, Arabic, and English Dictionary Revised, Enlarged, and Entirely Reconstructed. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1977.
PK6379.S7 1977

Dictionaries -- Polish

The Kosciuszko Foundation Dictionary: English-Polish, Polish-English. New York: Kosciuszko Foundation, 1960-62.
PG6640.K652

Pogonowski, Iwo. Polish-English, English-Polish Dictionary. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1993.
PG6640.P54 1993

Pogonowski, Iwo. Unabridged Polish-English Dictionary. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1997.
PG6640.P566 1997

Dictionaries -- Romanian

Schonkron, Marcel. Rumanian-English and English-Rumanian Dictionary; with Supplement of New Words, English-Rumanian. New York: F. Ungar Publishing Company, 1952.
PC779.S366

Dictionaries -- Russian

Daum, E. A Dictionary of Russian Verbs: Bases of Inflection, Aspects, Regimen, Stressing, Meanings. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1974.
PG2271.d313 1974B

Jaszczun, Wasyl. A Dictionary of Russian Idioms and Colloquialisms; 2,200 Expressions with Examples. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1967.
PG2460.J3

Katzner, Kenneth. English-Russian, Russian-English Dictionary. New York: Wiley, 1994.
PG2640.K34 1994

The Learner's English-Russian Dictionary. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press, 1963.
PG2640.L4 1963

The Learner's Russian-English Dictionary. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press, 1963.
PG2640.L42

The Oxford English-Russian Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984.
PG2640.O9 1984

The Oxford Russian-English Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984.
PG2640.O92 1984

Dictionaries -- Sanskrit

Macdonell, Arthur Anthony. A Practical Sanskrit Dictionary, with Transliteration, Accentuation and Etymological Analysis Throughout. London: Oxford University Press, 1954.
PK933.M3 1954

Monier-Williams, Monier. A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo-European Languages. Delhi: Oriental Pub., 1973.
PK933.M6 1973

Dictionaries -- Serbo-Croatian

Benson, Morton. An English-SerboCroatian Dictionary. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979.
PG1376.B38

Recnik Englesko-Srpskohrvatski, Srpskohrvatsko-Engleski sa Kratkom Gramatikom Engleskog Jezika: Dictionary English-SerboCroatian, SerboCroatian-English with a Short Grammar of English Language. Cetinjue: Obod, 1978.
PG1377.R37 1978

Dictionaries -- Slovak

Hrobak, Philip Anthony. Hrobak's English-Slovak Dictionary; Unabridged. New York: R. Speller, 1965.
PG5379.H7 1965

Slovensko-Anglicky Slovnik. New York: P. Shalom, 1966.
PG5379.S62 1966

Dictionaries -- Spanish

Diccionario de la Lengua Espanola. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1997.
PC4625.A3 1997

Gran Diccionario Espanol-Ingles: English-Spanish Dictionary. Paris: Larousse, 1993.
PC4640.G73 1993

Raventos, Margaret H. Random House Spanish-English, English-Spanish Dictionary. New York: Random House, 1999.
PC4640.R32 1999

Stahl, Fred A. Reverse Dictionary of the Spanish Language. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973.
PC4691.S7

Dictionaries -- Swahili

Inter-territorial Language Committee to the East African Dependencies. Standard Swahili-English Dictionary. London: Oxford University Press, 1939.
PL8703.I53

Rechenbach, Charles William. Swahili-English Dictionary. Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1967
PL8703.R4

Dictionaries -- Swedish

Gullberg, Ingvar Emanuel. Svensk-Engelsk Fackordbok for Naringsliv, Forvaltning, Undervisning och Forskning: A Swedish-English Dictionary of Technical Terms Used in Business, Industry, Administration, Education and Research. Stockholm: Norstedt, 1977.
PD5640.G8 1977

Nojd, Ruben. McKay's Modern English-Swedish and Swedish-English Dictionary. New York: D. McKay Co., 1954.
PD5640.N613

Dictionaries -- Tagalog

Ramos, Teresita V. Tagalog Dictionary. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1971.
PL6056.R3

Dictionaries -- Thai

McFaland, George Bradley. Thai-English Dictionary. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1953.
PL4187.M18 1953

Robertson, Richard G. Robertson's Practical English-Thai Dictionary. Rutland, VT: C.E. Tuttl;e, 1969.
PL4187.R6 1969

Dictionaries -- Tibetan

Goldstein, Melvyn C. English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1984.
PL3637T52G65 1984

Dictionaries -- Turkish

Hony, H.C. Turkish-English Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957.
PL191.H6 1957

Iz, Fahir. Oxford English-Turkish Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.
PL191.I93 1978

Dictionaries -- Vietnamese

Le Ba Khanh. Vietnamese-English Dictionary: With a Supplement of New Words. New York: F. Ungar Publishing Company, 1975.
PL4376.L48 1975

Nguyen, Dinh Hoa. Vietnamese-English Student Dictionary. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1971.
PL4376.N355 1971

Dictionaries -- Yiddish

Weinreich, Uriel. Modern English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English Dictionary. New York: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research; McGraw-Hill, 1968.
PJ5117.W4

Dictionaries -- Yoruba

Abraham, Roy Clive. Dictionary of Modern Yoruba. London: University of London Press, 1958.
PL8823.A2

Dictionaries -- Zulu

Doke, Clement Martyn. English-Zulu Dictionary. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1988.
PL8843.D617 1988

Language & Linguistics Resources

 

American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
P615.A43 2000

Allen, C.G. Manual of European Languages for Librarians. London: Bowker-Saur, 1999.
P380.A4 1999

Campbell, George L. Compendium of the World's Languages. London: Routledge, 2000.
P371.C36 2000

Crystal, David. Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
P29.C64 1997

Crystal, David. Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997.
P29.C65 1997

Crystal, David. First Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1980.
P29.C7

Crystal, David. Words on Words. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
P106.C765 2000

Dalby, Andrew. Dictionary of Languages: the Definitive Reference to More than 400 Languages. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
P29.D35 1998

Ducrot, Oswald. Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Sciences of Language. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.
P29.D813

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Applied Linguistics: a Handbook for Language Teaching. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.
P129.E53 1998

Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1997.
P40.8.E53 1997

Hartmann, R.R.K. Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. London: Applied Science Publishers, 1972.
P29.H34 1972b

Katzner, Kenneth. Languages of the World. London: Routledge, 1995.
P371.K38 1995

Knowledge About Language. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1997.
P40.8.E53 1997 v.6

Language Testing and Assessment. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1997.
P40.8.E53 1997 v.7

Linguistics Encyclopedia. London: Routledge, 1991.
P29.L52 1991

Literacy. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1997.
P40.8.E53 1997 v.2

Matthews, P.H. Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
P29.M34 1997

Nash, Rose. Multilingual Lexicon of Linguistics and Philology: English, Russian, German, French. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press, 1968.
P29.N34

Pei, Mario. Dictionary of Linguistics. Totowa, NJ: Littlefield, Adams, 1969.
P29.P4 1969

Pei, Mario. Glossary of Linguistic Terminology. New York: Columbia University Press, 1966.
P29.P39 1966

Research Methods in Language and Education. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1997.
P40.8.E53 1997

Schoenhof's Foreign Books. Language Catalogue: Dictionaries, Grammars, Language Learning. Cambridge, MA: Schoenhof's Foreign Books, 1998.
Z1217.S64S64a

Steible, Daniel J. Concise Handbook of Linguistics; a Glossary of Terms. New York: Philosophical Library, 1967.
P29.S7

Urdang, Laurence. Literary, Rhetorical, and Linguistics Terms Index. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1983.
P29.5.U72 1983

Voegelin, C.F. Classificaiton and Index of the World's Languages. New York: Elsevier, 1977.
P203.V6

Wales, Katie. Dictionary of Stylistics. London: Longman, 1989.
P301.W35 1989

Resources on Slang and Idiomatic Usage

 

Chapman, Robert L. Thesaurus of American Slang. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.
PE2846.C465 1989

Dickson, Paul. Slang: the Authoritative Topic-By-Topic Dictionary of American Lingoes from All Walks of Life. New York: Pocket Books, 1998.
PE2846.D43 1998

Dunn, Jerry Camarillo. Idiom Savant: Slang As It Is Slung. New York: Henry Holt, 1997.
PE2846.D86 1997

Ellis, Mike. Slanguage: a Cool, Fresh, Phat, and Shagadelic Guide to All Kinds of Slang. New York: Hyperion, 2000.
PE3721.E45 2000

Green, Jonathon. Dictionary of Contemporary Slang. New York: Stein and Day, 1985.
PE3721.G68 1985

Herail, Rene James. Dictionary of Modern Colloquial French. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1984.
PC2640.H47 1984

Juba to Jive: the Dictionary of African-American Slang. New York: Penguin Books, 1994.
PE3727.N4M34 1994

Landy, Eugene E. Underground Dictionary. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971.
PE3721.L3

Major, Clarence. Dictionary of Afro-American Slang. New York: International Publishers, 1970.
PE3727.N4M3

Marks, Georgette A. Harrap's Slang Dictionary: English-French/French-English. London: Harrap, 1984.
PC3741.M33 1984

Oxford Dictionary of Slang. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
PE3721.O94 1998

Partridge, Eric. Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: Colloquialisms and Catch-Phrases, Solecisms and Catachreses, Nicknames, and Vulgarisms. New York: Macmillan, 1984.
PE3721.P3 1984

Stavsky, Lois. A 2 Z: the Book of Rap & Hip-Hop Slang. New York: Boulevard Books, 1995.
PE3727.N4S73 1995

Tse, Peter. Dictionary of Essential American Slang. Berkeley, CA: Optima Books, 2000.
PE2846.T75 2000

Wired Style: Principles of English Usage in the Digital Age. New York: Broadway Books, 1999.
QA76.15.W55 1999


Internet Resources

This is a very selective listing of a few of the numerous resources available via the World Wide Web. To find additional resources, use one of the Internet search engines such as Google or browse directory listings at Yahoo.

Associations, E-Journals, etc.

American Association for Applied Linguistics. (http://www.aaal.org/)

Applied Linguistics. (http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/) E-Journal. Subscription required. Currently available at no charge to UNF users throught the Library's Oxford Journals subscription.

Center for Applied Linguistics. (http://www.cal.org/)

Eclectic Company. Language and Linguistics. (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/lingmarks.html)

Fields of Lingustics. Linguistic Society of America. (http://www.lsadc.org/index2.php?aaa=fldcont.htm)

International Journal of American Linguistics. (http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/IJAL/home.html) E-Journal. Subscription required.

Linguist List. Eastern Michigan University/Wayne State University.
(http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/)

Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences. (http://www.degruyter.de/journals/linguistics/) E-Journal. Subscription required.

University College of London. Phonetics and Linguistics. (http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/)

University of Washington. EServer. (http://eserver.org/)

Utrecht Institute of Linguistics. Lexicon of Linguistics . (http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/)

Yahoo's Listings of Linguistics & Human Languages Web Sites. (http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Linguistics_and_Human_Languages/)

Translation Services

Babel Fish via AltaVista. (http://world.altavista.com/) Covers Chinese, Korean, Japanese, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish languages.

Free Translation. (http://www.freetranslation.com/) Covers English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Spanish Languages.

Google Language Tools. (http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en)

InterTran. (http://www.tranexp.com/win/itserver.htm) Covers Albanian, Arabic, Bosnian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, European Portuguese, Filipino/Philipino/Tagalog, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Latin American Spanish, Norwegian, Old Church Slavonic, Polish, Rumanian/Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Latin script), Serbian (Cyrillic script), Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese and Welsh.

Travlang Travel and Language Web Site. (http://www.dictionaries.travlang.com/otherdicts.html)

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