Linguistics

The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd ed.) is a comprehensive, authoritative reference work offering thousands of updated, expert-written articles, multimedia content, and extensive cross-referencing across all areas of linguistics. Available in both print and online formats, it serves as a major research resource for students, faculty, and scholars in linguistics and related fields.

Ethnologue is the most comprehensive, regularly updated database of the world’s living languages, covering over 7,000 languages across 240+ countries. It offers detailed language profiles, maps, statistics, and cross-referencing tools used by researchers, educators, and institutions worldwide. With decades of expert data collection, Ethnologue provides authoritative insights into language status, distribution, and global linguistic trends.

This database indexes and abstracts international research in linguistics and the language sciences, covering core areas such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. It includes a wide range of document types—journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, and reviews—with coverage from 1973 to the present. Its scope spans fields like anthropological and applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, nonverbal communication, and language disorders.

PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association of America) is a long-established, peer-reviewed scholarly journal publishing essays of interest to language and literature scholars, including work on linguistics and related fields. It serves as an important research source for critical and theoretical studies of language, literature, and cultural expression.

Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics is a curated reference tool designed to help students and scholars navigate key topics in linguistics. Each entry combines expert commentary with links to library catalogs and online resources, making it easier to find and evaluate relevant research. Its clear, topic-based structure supports quick, intuitive on-screen navigation.

The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics is an online, peer-reviewed reference resource that provides in-depth, expert-written articles covering major areas of linguistics—such as phonetics, syntax, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, historical linguistics, and more.

The American Psychological Association's index to journals on psycholinguistics: child language acquisition, 2nd language learning, sentence processing, language disorders, and neurolinguistics & cognitive science. Also includes PsycBOOKS.

A short article describes variations in each language structure. World maps chart approximately 400 languages, showing the geographic distribution of their structural types.

WOLD provides vocabularies (mini-dictionaries of about 1000-2000 entries) of 41 languages from around the world, with comprehensive information about the loanword status of each word. It allows users to find loanwords, source words and donor languages in each of the 41 languages, and also makes it easy to compare loanwords across languages.

General database covers all areas of study. Good place to start for interdisciplinary topics or when you don't know which area of study your topic fits into. "Where do I start?" Here.

Anthropology Plus is the world's most comprehensive, focused index of bibliographic materials from the late 1800s to today in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology; ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and material culture; and interdisciplinary studies.

Archive of the top American Anthropology Association journals.

This database has recently added a number of linguistics journals and is also helpful for research into communication disorders. CMMC incorporates CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index.

The Education Database supports the study and application of education across all levels of education and supports global study and research. Includes cognitive, social, and linguistic development; language disorders; teaching 1st and 2nd languages; reading and literacy.

This database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to education-related literature. Sources for research on education, including cognitive, social, and linguistic development; language disorders; teaching 1st and 2nd language; reading and literacy; tests, measurements, and evaluations.

Cultural descriptions of groups of people from all over the world organized by location. Can search by feature of culture, e.g., word order.

digital library providing access to thousands of academic journals, books, and primary sources across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. It is widely used for research and teaching, offering full-text search and stable archival access to scholarly literature.

For health science-related journals. Use for research on language disorders, neurolinguistics, fMRI studies, and aphasias.

The best place for research on sociological topics. Good for research on sociolinguistics -- languages in contact, interpretation, communities in contact, pidgins and creoles.

This UF Libraries page helps users locate University of Florida theses and dissertations by offering direct search links to the UF library catalog and the UF Institutional Repository, as well as browsing options by department. It provides tools to find both print and online UF graduate research works in one place, making it easier for students and faculty to access UF theses and dissertations.

his UF Libraries page points students to resources for finding theses and dissertations from institutions beyond the University of Florida, including major collections like ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, and open access repositories with millions of records worldwide. It helps broaden research scope beyond UF’s own ETD collections by linking to international and open‑access sources for graduate research documents.

Alphabetizes the list of all of the databases UF grants access to. Use full keywords when searching.

major multidisciplinary citation and abstract database that indexes scholarly literature across the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, allowing users to search peer-reviewed articles, books, and conference proceedings. It also provides citation tracking and analysis tools to help researchers discover influential work and follow how research is connected through references.