The benefit to handbooks and guides is that they typically offer the reader an opportunity to survey and learn about a broad field of scholarship in a comprehensive way. They give a snap shop of the discipline covered at the time the book is published. Unlike a retrospective collection of articles, these guides are written or edited as a planned and intentional effort, with chapters and sections interrelating and complimenting one another and thereby tend to be more readable and integrated research works.
The following databases are good places to go to start researching your topic. Each database has a slightly different focus, so you might need to try out a couple of databases before finding one that returns the sort of results you are looking for.
The following are links to specific academic journals which are published and peer-reviewed by experts in the field. If you want tonarrow your search to a specific topic, country, or issue, finding a journal that publishes in that area can help.
Search the entire library catalog here.
Materials on Linguistics topics are found under the "P" category on the 3rd floor of the Chester Fritz Library.
PB1-3029 | Modern languages. Celtic languages |
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PC1-5498 | Romance |
PD1-7159 | Germanic |
PF1-5999 | West Germanic |
PG1-9665 | Slavic. Baltic. Albanian |
PH1-5490 | Uralic. Basque |