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 -- Classification
- Language and languages -- Congresses
- Language and languages -- Dictionaries
- 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 -- Periodicals
- Language and languages -- Philosophy
- Language and languages -- Political aspects
- Language and languages -- Religious aspects
- 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
- 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
- Judgment
- Language acquisition
- Language and education
- Language planning
- Language policy
- Language revival
- Language spread
- Lexicology
- Linguistic change
- Linguistics -- Statistical methods
- Mathematical linguistics
- Multilingualism
- Oratory
- Phraseology
- Printing -- Style manuals
- Psycholinguistics
- Punctuation
- Racism in language
- Rhetoric
- Semantics
- Semantics (Philosophy)
- Sign language
- Sociolinguistics
- Speech
- Tone (Phonetics)
- Translating and interpreting
- Typology (Linguistics)
- Voice
- Writing
- 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)
- The Psycho-Biology of Language: An Introduction to Dynamic Philology (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1935), by George Kingsley Zipf (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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
- 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 (electronic edition, 2007), by Gerald Massey, ed. by Jon Lange (HTML at masseiana.org)
- 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)
- 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)
- Anthropos (Austria-based journal; 1906-1922 volumes freely readable online) (partial serial archives)
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- Algebraic Semantics in Language and Philosophy, by Godehard Link (PDF at Stanford)
- De Belgische Taalwetten (in Dutch; Gent: A. Siffer, 1892), by Alphonse Napoléon Prayon-van Zuylen van Nyevelt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Ethnologue (fifth edition; 1958) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Reading With My Eyes Open: Embracing the Critical and the Personal in Language Pedagogy (London: Ubiquity Press, c2013), by Gerdi Quist (PDF at Ubiquity Press)
- Integrating Gestures: The Interdisciplinary Nature of Gesture (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2011), ed. by Gale Stam and Mika Ishino (PDF with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)
- Basics of Language for Language Learners (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Peter W. Culicover and Elizabeth V. Hume (PDF at Ohio State)
- Which Step First? The Relation Of Sequence To Language Achievement (Univ. of Illinois Bulletin, April 1949), by Gilbert C. Kettelkamp (page images at HathiTrust)
- Second-Language Learning (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1948), by Harold B. Dunkel (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Art of Teaching and Studying Languages (second edition; London: G. Philip and Son; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1892), by François Gouin, trans. by Howard Swan and Victor Bétis (multiple formats at archive.org)
- L'Art d'Enseigner et d'Étudier les Langues (in French; Paris: G. Flachbacher, 1880), by François Gouin
- 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
- The Scientific Study and Teaching of Languages: A Review of the Factors and Problems Connected With the Learning and Teaching of Modern Languages, With an Analysis of the Various Methods Which May Be Adopted in Order to Attain Satisfactory Results (London: G.G. Harrap and Co., 1917), by Harold E. Palmer
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