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Linguistics.

Here are entered works dealing with the scientific study of human speech, including phonetics, phonemics, morphology, and syntax. Works dealing with language in general, the origin and history of language and surveys of languages, are entered under the heading Language and languages.

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• Language and languages

• Linguistics -- Bibliography
• Linguistics -- Brazil
• Linguistics -- Congresses
• Linguistics -- Databases
• Linguistics -- Fieldwork
• Linguistics -- History
• Linguistics -- Methodology
• Linguistics -- Periodicals
• Linguistics -- Philosophy
• Linguistics -- Research
• Linguistics -- Statistical methods
• Linguistics -- Textbooks
• Anaphora (Linguistics)
• Anthropological linguistics
• Applied linguistics
• Areal linguistics
• Biolinguistics
• Cohesion (Linguistics)
• Computational linguistics
• Context (Linguistics)
• Contrastive linguistics
• Diglossia (Linguistics)
• Forensic linguistics
• Formalization (Linguistics)
• Government-binding theory (Linguistics)
• Grammar, Comparative and general
• Grammaticality (Linguistics)
• Historical linguistics
• Linguistic models
• Linguistics, Experimental
• Mathematical linguistics
• Motion in language
• Phonetics
• Prosodic analysis (Linguistics)
• Psycholinguistics
• Reference (Linguistics)
• Sociolinguistics
• Speech acts (Linguistics)
• Structural linguistics
• Typology (Linguistics)

• Linguistic science
• Science of language

• The English Language: From Sound to Sense (c2010), by Gerald Patrick Delahunty and James J. Garvey (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• Linguistic Theory and the Biblical Text (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2023), ed. by William A. Ross and Elizabeth Robar (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• University of California Publications in Linguistics (partial serial archives)
• The Written Language Bias in Linguistics (1982), by Per Linell (PDF with commentary in Sweden)
• Introduzione Agli Elementi di Glottologia (in Italian; Bologna: N. Zanichelli, 1922), by Alfredo Trombetti (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Language and War: Letter to a Friend Concerning Stalin's Article on Linguistics (Yonkers, NY: The author, c1950), by Earl Browder (page images at HathiTrust)

• Developments in Linguistics and Semiotics, Language Teaching and Learning, Communication Across Cultures (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1986; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1987), ed. by Simon P. X. Battestini (PDF at Georgetown)
• Contemporary Perceptions of Language: Interdisciplinary Dimensions (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1982; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1982), ed. by Heidi Byrnes (PDF at Georgetown)
• Semantics: Theory and Application (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1976; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1976), ed. by Cléa Rameh, contrib. by Winfred P. Lehmann, Jorge Hankamer, Ray Jackendoff, Geoffrey N. Leech, Barbara Hall Partee, Oswald Werner, Martin D. Topper, Chuck Rieger, Gilbert Harman, Alfonso Caramazza, Ellen Grober, Frances M. Aid, Milton Mariano Azevedo, Christopher Candlin, and Ragnhild Söderbergh (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Fifteenth Annual (First International) Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Studies (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1964), ed. by C. I. J. M. Stuart (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Fourteenth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Studies (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1963), ed. by Robert J. Di Pietro (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report Of The Thirteenth Annual Round Table Meeting On Linguistics And Language Studies (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1963), ed. by Elisabeth Delorme Woodworth and Robert J. Di Pietro (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Twelfth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Studies (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1963), ed. by Michael Zarechnak (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Eleventh Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Studies (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1960), ed. by Bernard Choseed and Allene Guss Grognet (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Seventh Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1956), ed. by Paul L. Garvin (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Sixth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1955), ed. by Ruth Hirsch (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Fifth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1954), ed. by Hugo J. Mueller (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report on The Second Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1951), ed. by John DeFrancis (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Third Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1952), ed. by Salvatore J. Castiglione (PDF at Georgetown)

• Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork (London and New York: Routledge, c2018), by Felicity Meakins, Jennifer Green, and Myfany Turpin (multiple formats with commentary at taylorfrancis.com)

• The Empirical Base of Linguistics: Grammaticality Judgments and Linguistic Methodology (originally published 1996; this edition Berlin: Language Science Press, c2016), by Carson T. Schütze (PDF with commentary at langsci-press.org)

• Annual Review of Linguistics (partial serial archives)
• Linguistics (partial serial archives)
• Linguistica (Slovenian journal) (partial serial archives)
• Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics (2016-) (full serial archives)
• Open Linguistics (2015-) (full serial archives)
• Finnish Journal of Linguistics (with predecessor titles back to 1988) (full serial archives)
• The Linguistics Journal (issues from 2006-2013 freely readable online) (partial serial archives)

• VARIATIONist Linguistics Meets CONTACT Linguistics (Göttingen: V&R Unipress and Vienna University Press, c2020), ed. by Alexandra N. Lenz and Mateusz Maselko (PDF files with commentary at V&R eLibrary)

• Beyond Grammar: An Experience-Based Theory of Language, by Rens Bod (PDF at Stanford)

• Essentials of Linguistics (2018), by Catherine Anderson (multiple formas with commentary at PressBooks)

• Anaphora and Quantification in Situation Semantics, by Jean Mark Gawron and Stanley Peters (PDF at Stanford)

• Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork (London and New York: Routledge, c2018), by Felicity Meakins, Jennifer Green, and Myfany Turpin (multiple formats with commentary at taylorfrancis.com)

• Time, Tense, and the Verb: A Study in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, With Particular Attention to Spanish (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968), by William Emerson Bull (page images at HathiTrust)

• Creole Studies: Phylogenetic Approaches (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2017), ed. by Peter Bakker, Finn Birchsenius, Carsten Levisen, and Eeva Sippola (PDF and Epub at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• Speech Understanding Research (final technical report; Menlo Park, CA: Stanford Research Institute, 1976), ed. by Donald E. Walker (PDF at dtic.mil)

• The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2021), ed. by Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, Bradley James McDonnell, Eve Koller, and Lauren B. Collister (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• The Talking Heads Experiment: Origins of Words and Meanings (Computational models of language evolution #1; Berlin: Language Science Press, 2015), by Luc Steels
  • PDF with commentary at langsci-press.org; 92 MB
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe 2020 (presented by META-NET; c2013), ed. by Georg Rehm and Hans Uszkoreit (PDF files with commentary at SpringerLink)
• Computational Linguistics: Models, Resources, Applications (c2004), by Igor A. Bolshakov and Alexander Gelbukh (PDF and illustrated HTML with commentary at gelbukh.com)
• Prolog and Natural Language Analysis (digital edition, 2002), by Fernando C. N. Pereira and Stuart M. Shieber (PDF with commentary at mtome.com)
• Computation in Linguistics: A Case Book (Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, c1966), ed. by Paul L. Garvin and Bernard Spolsky (Epub and HTML with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Beyond Grammar: An Experience-Based Theory of Language, by Rens Bod (PDF at Stanford)

• Phonology as Human Behavior: Theoretical Implications and Clinical Applications (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1997), by Y. Tobin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Agreement Beyond Phi (Linguistic Inquiry Monograph #75; Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2017), by Shigeru Miyagawa (PDF at dropbox.com)

• Outline of Linguistic Analysis (Baltimore: Linguistic Society of America, 1942), by Bernard Bloch and George L. Trager (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Haupttypen des Sprachbaus (in German; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1910), by Franz Nikolaus Finck (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Introduction to the Study of Language (London: G. Bell and Sons; New York: H. Holt and Co., 1914), by Leonard Bloomfield (page images at Google; US access only)
• Linguistic Individuals, by Almerindo E. Ojeda (PDF at Stanford)

• The Empirical Base of Linguistics: Grammaticality Judgments and Linguistic Methodology (originally published 1996; this edition Berlin: Language Science Press, c2016), by Carson T. Schütze (PDF with commentary at langsci-press.org)

• Letters as Loot: A Sociolinguistic Approach to Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Dutch (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2014), by Gijsbert Johan Rutten and M. J. van der Wal (PDF files with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)

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