Looking for the International Encyclopedia of Linguistics? No need to come to the library – this book is now available online.*
The Encyclopedia encompasses the full range of topics in linguistics, including such areas as historical, comparative, formal, mathematical, functional, philosophical, and sociolinguistics.
To use the book, you can either Browse by scanning through a list of the entries in alphabetical order or Search for entries. In the left hand column, there is a list of related entries called See also, which is a list of entries related to the one you are currently looking at. Below this, you’ll see a list of Adjacent entries which can be used to browse through nearby entries (alphabetically) just as you might do with the print edition.
Another great feature of this collection is the “Cross Reference” tool. Highlight a word or phrase and then click the blue “Cross Reference” button to search across the entire encyclopedia for that word or words.
Illustrated material includes colour images of brain functioning, tree diagrams of both linguistic structure and language families, and diagrams of theoretical models.
One of the lovely things about online resources is the ability to link to related works. In this ebook, the bibliography at the end of each entry provides a link to the UBC Library catalogue for each citation. Simply click the “Find’ icon to search the catalogue for the book.
Enjoy! As always, please let me know if you have any questions or comments about this resource.
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* If you’d prefer the print book version of the International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, we have the four-volume set in the Reference section of Koerner Library (on the second floor), at call number P29 .I58 2003.