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Short articles give the history of a language and its development, written forms and pronunciation, morphology and syntax. Charts and examples are descriptive and useful. Each entry has a bibliography.

Contains over 900 signed entries that include a bibliography. Subjects reflect the history, theory and direction of the discipline, written in “popular” language rather than scholarly.  The online edition is available with logon, and we also own the print edition which is held in the Reference Stacks under REF P29 .I58 2003.

These links are the result of a keyword search for “languages” in the Gale Virtual Reference Library. In the Search box, you can enter the specific language you are interested in reading about and then click on GO.

Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) provides non-evaluative abstracts of articles from approximately 2,000 serials published worldwide, coverage of monographs, recent books, technical reports, occasional papers, dissertation listings, and bibliographic citations for book reviews.

Indexes 3,000+ international journals and series, monographs, working (unpublished) papers, conference proceedings, bibliographies and more.

A very short (67 pages) list of words and their origins.

Contains over 900 signed entries that include a bibliography. Subjects reflect the history, theory and direction of the discipline, written in “popular” language rather than scholarly.  The online edition is available with logon, and we also own the print edition which is held in the Reference Stacks under REF P29 .I58 2003.

Contains over 24,000 phrases and expressions in 1081 pages.

Contains some articles on modern languages under the “Language Articles” link. Also under that link are links to a variety of English-other language dictionaries.

Their grammars page provides links to useful guides to modern language grammar articles and web pages.