Resources for Linguistics Students
Check out the blog for students and faculty in the Writing Studies department.
For some answers to common questions about library research at UMD, see the Research FAQ.
Subscription Databases for Students in the Composition Department
Electronic indexes, full text databases and high-quality reference sources provided by the UMD library and especially useful to students and faculty in the Composition Department (including Linguistics).
LLBA - Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
This is the main electronic index for Linguistics.
Web Resources for Linguistics Students
Linguistics, Natural Language, and Computational Linguistics Meta-index
"A guide to the best linguistic resources on the web" from Stanford University's Natural Language Processing group. It is a large and varied index, but it emphasizes computational linguistics.
This is a huge directory of linguistics resources with a large archive of scholarly email discussions. It is the largest linguistics resource on the web and worth exploring to see the variety and depth of linguistics study and research that is out there.
Selected Linguistics Blogs
A list compiled by UMD's composition librarian.
Reference books in linguistics
Print periodicals for the Writing Studies Department
Where to go if you want to browse
Browsing the stacks can be a great way to make discoveries in your area of interest.
The books in the UMD library are all shelved according to the Library of Congress Classification System, which groups broad subject areas by letters of the alphabet.
The "P" class is for language - including linguistics and philology as well as literature, composition and rhetoric. It is a large section. ("Philology" is the old name for linguistics, from when it was a more humanistic and somewhat less scientific study, with a strong literary emphasis.)
The "P" section is on the fourth floor of the library, or on the second floor for reference books.
P1 to P85 is philology and linguistics generally, but with some specializations, such as sociolinguistics.
P98 to P98.5 is computational linguistics and natural language processing.
P99.5 to P99.6 is non-verbal communication.
P101 to P410 is language, linguistic theory, and comparative grammar.
P118 to P118.7 is language acquisition.
P121 to P149 is science of language (linguistics).
P201 to P299 is comparative grammar.
P301 to P301.5 is style, composition and rhetoric.
P302 to P302.87 is discourse analysis.
P306 to P310 is translating and interpreting.
P321 to P324.5 is etymology.
P325 to P325.5 is semantics.
P326 to P326.5 is lexicology.
P327 to P327.5 is lexicography.
P375 to P381 is linguistic geography.
From there up to the end of the PM's are books on specific languages and language groups, including Indo-European or Indo-Germanic languages (P 501 to P 769), extinct languages (P 901 to P 1091), greek and latin (PA 201 to PA 2915), modern European languages (PB), Romance and Germanic languages (PC, PD), English (PE), West Germanic (PF), Slavic & Baltic (including Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, Serbian, Croatian, Czech, etc. - PG), Finno-Ugric and Basque (including Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, Turkish, etc. - PH), "Oriental" languages (PJ 1 to PJ 2594), Semitic Languages (primarily Arabic and Hebrew - PJ 3001 to PJ 9293), Indo-Iranian (PK), Languages and Literatures of East Asia, Africa and Oceania (PL), and Native American, Mixed and Creole Languages and artificial languages (PM).
PN and beyond is for literature.
Linguistics at UMD
Linguistics Minor (Course Catalog)
Your Librarian for Linguistics is...
Rory Litwin
Library Rm. 268
218-726-7896
Email: rlitwin@d.umn.edu
Contact him with any questions that you may have about information resources for Linguistics.
Page updated 3/3/2008
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