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In order by importance in the field of linguistics.
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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)Primary search engine in linguistics. Indexes and abstracts journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers in all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
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JSTOR: LinguisticsJSTOR is an archival database of journals, books and other materials. Most of its journals are available from the first issue to three to five years ago via a moving wall.
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Enhanced Electronic Grammars (DeGruyter)This unique online resource makes full grammars available together in an interlinked and semantically-annotated format, allowing granular access to the grammatical data and enabling cross-language research of several grammars at the same time. In addition to cross-linguistic queries, each grammar can also be read and researched individually. The electronic format allows for multimodal enhancement of language descriptions, such as audio and video supplements.
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Interlibrary BorrowingAnother way to borrow books from other libraries, or to get articles to journals for which we have no subscription.
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MIT ThesesDownload MIT dissertations and theses from DSpace@MIT. If it is not in DSpace, use Barton (see above).
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Encylopedias and dictionaries
If you are looking to understand something more deeply, here are a number of online options for definitions and explanations.
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Atlas of North American English: PDFOpen Access PDF of the print version of this work.
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Atlas of North American English: SupplementSupplement: Phonetics, Phonology, and Sound Change (with audio files)
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Linguistic Data ManagementThe Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork
Edited by Nicholas Thieberger (2011)
Linguist List: Book Reviews
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For all MIT users, available corpora are listed by year on the LDC site (MIT Libraries’ access to LDC corpora is limited to corpora published from 2016 on). Note that the corpora available as CDs or DVDs from 2016-present can be accessed by individual title through the Library’s Catalog.
