Subject page for linguistics

Encyclopedias & Lexicons

• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics
• Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics
• International Encyclopedia of Linguistics
• Glottopedia "is a freely editable encyclopedia for linguists by linguists that is currently being built up"
• Lexicon of Linguistics, University of Utrecht

Handbooks, Textbooks & Studies

• Language Science Press
• Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
• Cambridge Handbooks in Language & Linguistics
• Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
• Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
• The Wiley Blackwell companion to diachronic and historical linguistics
• Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics

Languages of the World

• Glottolog – "Comprehensive reference information for the world's languages, especially the lesser known languages."
• Ethnologue – "A comprehensive reference work cataloging all of the world’s known living languages."
• ISO 639-3: "a set of codes that defines three-letter identifiers for all known human languages".
• Scriptsource – "collaborative reference to the writing systems of the world"
• Multitree "MultiTree is a searchable database of hypotheses on language relationships."
• LL-MAP – "a digital mapping project that integrates language data and information from the physical and social sciences.
• Endangered Languages – "A worldwide collaboration to strengthen endangered languages"
• The language archive (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)
• Endangered Language Archive of the Endangered languages Documentation Programme
• PARADISEC (Pacific And Regional Archive for DIgital Sources in Endangered Cultures): "curates digital material about small or endangered languages"
• UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Databases and Corpora

• Glottobank – "is an international research consortium established to document and understand the world’s linguistic diversity" They have established five global databases: Grambank, on language structures, Lexibank, on lexicon, Parabank, on paradigm systems, Numeralbank, on numerals, Phonobank, on phonetic changes.
• WALS Online – "The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars) by a team of 55 authors."
• PHOIBLE Online – "A repository of cross-linguistic phonological inventory data"
• Surrey Morphology Group's databases
• The Universals Archive
• The World Loanword Database (WOLD)
• The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (APiCS)
• AfBo: A world-wide survey of affix borrowing
• The Intercontinental Dictionary Series
• CLICS (Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications)
• The database of the Automated Similarity Judgment Program (ASJP) "aims to contain 40-item word lists of all the world's languages"
• Tsammalex "a multilingual lexical database on plants and animals including linguistic, anthropological and biological information as well as images"
• OLAC - Open Language Archives – "international partnership of institutions and individuals who are creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources."
• Rosetta Project – "The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to build a publicly accessible digital library of human languages."
• ODIN – The Online Database of Interlinear Text
• Tekstlaboratoriet – provides access to many different corpora and tools.
• CLARINO Bergen Centre – "A repository to search and deposit language data."

Tools

• Interactive IPA chart (International Phonetic Association)
• Praat – open source software to analize and manipulate phonetic data.
• Linguistic Data Consortium's tools – tools for linguistic annotation.
• e-linguistics – cyberinfrastructure for linguistics.
• Best Practices in Digital Language Documentation

Linguistic Bibliographies

• Oxford Bibliographies: Linguistics
• Linguistic bibliography online (BL online)
• Bibliographie linguistischer Literatur (BLL)
• LingBuzz "is an openly accessible repository of scholarly papers, discussions and other documents for linguistics"
• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
• MLA international bibliography

E-mail lists & Blogs

• The Linguist List – "a forum where academic linguists can discuss linguistic issues and exchange linguistic information."
• linguists@uio.no: the e-mail list for linguists and language enthusiasts at UiO. Subscribe to keep yourself updated on linguistics events at UiO.
• Other e-mail lists
• Diversity Linguistics Comment – "provides a forum for discussion for descriptive linguists, language typologists and historical-comparative linguists."
• Philosophy of Linguistics – en blogg "On the Nature of the Science of Language"
• Language on the move – "peer-reviewed sociolinguistics research site devoted to multilingualism, language learning and intercultural communication in the contexts of globalization and migration [...] consists primarily of doctoral candidates in sociolinguists based at Macquarie University and is complemented by contributors from around the world."