Library Guides: Linguistics: Reference sources

Reference sources

Oxford Reference
Oxford Reference is a large reference source database that compiles a wide range of Oxford University Press publications including scholarly encyclopedias, dictionaries and handbooks which are excellent sources of reliable, factual information. Try browsing for "Linguistics".
Oxford Bibliographies Online
Oxford Bibliographies Online contains high quality reference articles which include comprehensive bibliographies on a wide range of topics that can point to seminal and related works. Try browsing for "Linguistics" for sources and reading lists for all aspects of languages and linguistics.

The World Atlas of Language Structures Online (WALS)
WALS is a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars) by a team of 55 authors.
Glottolog
Comprehensive reference information for the world's languages, especially the lesser known languages.
Phoible
A repository of cross-linguistic phonological inventory data, which have been extracted from source documents and tertiary databases and compiled into a single searchable convenience sample.