Library Guides: Linguistics 111

Lynne McGivern, Instructor
Developed by Gina Haycock, Librarian
 

Reference Sources

• The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2006    R317.3 W927

• The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language    R403 C957

• Dictionary of Languages    R403 D137

• Facts about the World's Languages    R403 F142

• You Eat What you Are: People, Culture, and Food Traditions   R 394.1 B248

• MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers    R808.027 G437

• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association    R808.06615 P076

• Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture    R944.0803 E56

• Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture    R945.0903 E56

Online Reference Books:

• Gale Virtual Reference Library - Gale provides access to 200 reference books. All the books are full-text and cover a wide variety of topics including art, science, literature and much more. All 200 titles can be searched simultaneously or individual titles may be selected. (Cost $20,000)

• CredoReference - Credo provide full-text reference books on a wide variety of subjects (Cost $2500)

Circulating Books

The Library is purchasing a series of books published by Greenwood Press on the culture and customs of various countries. We currently have about 65 books in this series.
To find a book in this series, use the title search in the COS book catalog  For example, type in: Culture and customs of Mexico. Notice that the publisher for this entry is Greenwood Press that the copyright date is fairly current and that a subject heading reads:

Subject:    Mexico--Social life and customs--20th century

Online Books:

DATABASE FOR SCHOLARLY SOURCES:   

  Web Sites

• Ethnologue (Search the database by country or name of language. Learn how many people speak the language, what languages are similar, and in what countries they are spoken.)
• Intute: Arts & Humanities: Linguistics sponsored by a network of UK universities and partners featuring web sites for education and research selected by subject specialists.
• LingNet-The Global Language Network  (from the U.S. Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center)
• Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks  maintained by a professor of East Asian languages at Ohio State University.
• Yahoo Specific Languages    provides links on each listed language from one link to over sixty depending on the language.
• The Rosetta Project sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation and Stanford University Libraries.
• The Linguist List sponsored by Eastern Michigan University. It provides a peer reviewed links on a wide variety of languages.
• Language Materials Project sponsored by UCLA. Each Language Profile includes information about the historical, cultural, and social roots of the language, a map showing where the language is spoken, basic facts about the grammar, writing systems, and history of the language, and a wealth of other sociolinguistic information. Each page also includes contains links to the Language Materials Project citations for that language and a list of websites of interest to teachers and learners of the language.

  Avoiding Plagiarism

• COS Library Guide on Plagiarism:    http://www.cos.edu/library/plagiarism.htm   

• From Purdue University's OWL site:    http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/01/

• Paraphrase: Write it in your own words from OWL: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/619/01/

• From Acadia University in Nova Scotia You Quote It You Note It:    http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/.

How to Cite

• MLA Style Guide from Purdue University's OWL site: MLA Formatting and Style Guide: Works cited; Electronic Sources
• APA Style Guide from Purdue University's OWL site: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
   

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This page was created August 2006. This page was last updated: September 02, 2009
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