Linguistics

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Five College Catalog
Find books, journals, and media collections held by UMass Libraries and the Five Colleges.

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The combined catalogs of most U.S. libraries.
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UMASS Amherst Linguistics Department
Link to the homepage of the internationally recognized department for its work in theoretical, experimental and field linguistics.

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Purdue OWL - APA Style
Purdue OWL - MLA Style

Find scholarly articles in the resources listed below.

Anthropology Plus
This database looks at all areas of anthropology including linguistics.
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Documents indexed include journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers.

Linguistics Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Citations and abstracts for articles in the scholarly journals of linguistics, 1985-present.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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An index to journal articles and other scholarly literature on literature, literary theory and criticism, linguistics, folklore, and (since 1996) film, 1920s -
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PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
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Published by the American Psychological Association (APA), PsycINFO is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed journal literature in psychology, behavioral science and mental health - 2,500 journal titles indexed - 2.8 million records - 1887 to present.
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Sociological Abstracts
This indexes articles and contains some linguistic content that relates to socio-linguistics.
Web of Science
Provides a search by cited reference, topic, author, and more for articles in almost all important English-language journals. Arts and Humanities covers 1975-present; Social Sciences 1956-present; and Science 1900-present.

Revised by Elizabeth Carron in December 2012

Revised by Laura Nederhoff in April 2015