Language and languages
Here are entered works on language in general, works on the origin and history of language, and surveys of languages. Works dealing with the scientific study of human speech, including phonetics, phonemics, morphology and syntax, are entered under Linguistics.
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- Language and languages -- Bibliography
- Language and languages -- Classification
- Language and languages -- Congresses
- Language and languages -- Dictionaries
- Language and languages -- Documentation
- Language and languages -- Early works to 1800
- Language and languages -- Etymology
- Language and languages -- Examinations
- Language and languages -- Forecasting
- Language and languages -- Maps
- Language and languages -- Origin
- Language and languages -- Orthography and spelling
- Language and languages -- Periodicals
- Language and languages -- Philosophy
- Language and languages -- Physiological aspects
- Language and languages -- Political aspects
- Language and languages -- Religious aspects
- Language and languages -- Research
- Language and languages -- Sex differences
- Language and languages -- Statistics
- Language and languages -- Study and teaching
- Language and languages -- Study and teaching (Higher)
- Language and languages -- Style
- Language and languages -- Variation
- Accents and accentuation
- Antisemitism in language
- Bias-free language
- Bilingualism
- Cognate words
- Colloquial language
- Computational linguistics
- Dialectology
- Elocution
- Endangered languages
- Extinct languages
- Flower language
- Formal languages
- Grammar, Comparative and general
- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Quantifiers
- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Sentences
- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
- Historical linguistics
- Indigenous peoples -- Languages
- Judgment
- Language acquisition
- Language and education
- Language obsolescence
- Language planning
- Language policy
- Language revival
- Language spread
- Lexicology
- Linguistic change
- Linguistics -- Statistical methods
- Mathematical linguistics
- Multilingualism
- Printing -- Style manuals
- Psycholinguistics
- Punctuation
- Racism in language
- Semantics (Philosophy)
- Sign language
- Sociolinguistics
- Speech
- Translating and interpreting
- Typology (Linguistics)
- Women -- Language
- Written communication
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Language and languages
- Foreign languages
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Glottolog (online edition 3.0, 2017), ed. by Harald Hammarström, Robert Forkel, and Martin Haspelmath (HTML at glottolog.org)- In the Labyrinths of Language: A Mathematician's Journey (Philadelphia: ISI Press, c1981), by V. V. Nalimov, ed. by Robert Garland Colodny (linked PDF files here at Penn)
- The English Language: From Sound to Sense (c2010), by Gerald Patrick Delahunty and James J. Garvey (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
- Ethnologue (fifth edition; 1958) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Three Keys to Language (New York: Rinehart and Co., c1952), by Robert M. Estrich and Hans Sperber (page images at HathiTrust)
- Outline of Linguistic Analysis (Baltimore: Linguistic Society of America, 1942), by Bernard Bloch and George L. Trager (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Psycho-Biology of Language: An Introduction to Dynamic Philology (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1935), by George Kingsley Zipf (page images at HathiTrust)
- University of California Publications in Linguistics (partial serial archives)
- Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1921), by Edward Sapir
- Adamitics, An Essay On First Man's Language; Or, The Easiest Way To Learn Foreign Languages, for The Use of Middle- And Highschools (Budapest: The author, 1914), by Anthony de Velics
- Anti-Chamberlain: Betrachtungen Eines Linguisten Über Houston Stewart Chamberlains "Kriegsaufsätze" und die Sprachbewertung im Allgemeinen (in German; Leipzig: O. R. Reisland, 1918), by Leo Spitzer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Die Haupttypen des Sprachbaus (in German; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1910), by Franz Nikolaus Finck (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language (London: Printed for S. Gellibrand and J. Martin, 1668), by John Wilkins (multiple formats at Google)
- 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)
- The Leaning Tower of Babel and Other Affronts from the Underground Grammarian, by Richard Mitchell (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- Less Than Words Can Say, by Richard Mitchell
- Marxism and Problems of Linguistics, by Joseph Stalin (HTML at marxists.org)
- Original Letters and Papers of the Late Viscount Strangford Upon Philological and Kindred Subjects (London: Trubner, 1878), by Percy Ellen Frederick William Symthe Strangford, ed. by Emily Anne Beaufort Smythe Strangford (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1878), by Edward B. Tylor (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Causes and Cure of Armaments and War (London: P. S. King and Co., 1914), by Albert William Alderson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom (2 volumes; London: John Murray, 1920), by Edward B. Tylor
- Language Testing Reconsidered (c2007), ed. by Janna D. Fox, Marjorie Bingham Wesche, Doreen Bayliss, Liying Cheng, Carolyn E. Turner, and Christine Doe (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)
- Glottolog (online edition 3.0, 2017), ed. by Harald Hammarström, Robert Forkel, and Martin Haspelmath (HTML at glottolog.org)
- Bilingualism and Language Contact (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1970; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1970), ed. by James E. Alatis (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)
- A Book of the Beginnings (2 volumes; London: Williams and Norgate, 1881), by Gerald Massey
- Language Testing Reconsidered (c2007), ed. by Janna D. Fox, Marjorie Bingham Wesche, Doreen Bayliss, Liying Cheng, Carolyn E. Turner, and Christine Doe (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)
- English Next: Why Global English May Mean the End of "English as a Foreign Language" (c2006), by David Graddol (PDF with commentary at britishcouncil.org)
- Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (third edition; Paris: UNESCO, 2010), ed. by Christopher Moseley (page images at Unesco)
- The World Atlas of Language Structures (free online edition), ed. by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie (Javascript-dependent illustrated HTML at wals.info)
- Roots of Language (originally published 1981; this edition Berlin: Language Science Press, c2016), by Derek Bickerton (PDF with commentary at langsci-press.org)
- Anacalypsis (2 volumes; index, appendix, and illustrations omitted; originally published 1833-1836), by Godfrey Higgins (HTML at Tripod)
- Linguistic Discovery (2002-) (full serial archives)
- Language (partial serial archives)
- Alfa: Revista de Linguística (full serial archives)
- Litera (partial serial archives)
- Anthropos (Austria-based journal) (partial serial archives)
- Études Classiques (in French) (partial serial archives)
- Applied Grammatology: Post(e)-Pedagogy from Jacques Derrida to Joseph Beuys (originally published 1985; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Gregory L. Ulmer (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- A Theory of Language and Mind (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997), by Ermanno Bencivenga (HTML at UC Press)
- Friday's Footprint: Structuralism and the Articulated Text (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1979), by Wesley Morris (PDF at Ohio State)
- Knowledge and the Norm of Assertion: An Essay in Philosophical Science (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2016), by John Turri (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- Cratylus, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
- Cratylus, by Plato, trans. by Harold North Fowler (HTML at Perseus)
- Galeni Libellus de Captionibus Quae per Dictionem Fiunt, ad Fidem Unius Qui Superest Codicis Editus (main text in Greek, commentary in Latin; Rostock, Germany: C. Hinstorff, 1903), by Galen, ed. by Karl Gabler
- Significs and Language: the Articulate Form of Our Expressive and Interpretative Resources (London: Macmillan and Co., 1911), by Victoria Welby
- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (from the International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method series; in English and German side by side; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co.; London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1922), by Ludwig Wittgenstein, trans. by C. K. Ogden, contrib. by Bertrand Russell
- Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic, by Benedetto Croce, trans. by Douglas Ainslie (Gutenberg text)
- Estetica, Come Scienza dell'Espressione e Linguistica Generale: Teoria e Storia (third revised edition, in Italian; Bari: Gius. Laterza et Figli, 1908), by Benedetto Croce
- Estética, Como Ciencia de la Expresión y Lingüística General: Teoria é historia de la estética (in Spanish; Madrid: F. Beltrán, 1912), by Benedetto Croce (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (in English and German), by Ludwig Wittgenstein, trans. by C. K. Ogden, contrib. by Bertrand Russell (Gutenberg multiple formats and LibriVox audio)
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