GENERAL PROFESSIONAL AND REFERENCE RESOURCES

  1. Choose three faculty from the Department of Linguistics and English Language at BYU. Using MLA Periodicals Index or Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts:

    1. Determine what their area of specialization is and list it.

    2. List one article for each faculty member that seems to be representative of their overall publication record. Give the references in LSA style.

  2. For the following four questions, you might want to focus on one particular area of linguistics that interests you.

  1. Find and list two linguistically-related mailing lists that look interesting to you. What are 2-3 recent topics on each one that look particularly interesting?
     

  2. Find and list two recent linguistic conferences that seem interesting to you.
     

  3. Find and cite in LSA style two recent books that seem interesting to you.
     

  4. What are two fields of linguistics that seem to have a lot of recent job postings?

(HINT: This may be a good opportunity to think about what topic you'd like to do your annotated bibliography and final project on.)

If you try to get access to the MLA and LLBA off-campus you'll need to get them from the library web site instead of the class page.  Go to the library site, click on Find Other Materials > Electronic > Databases A-Z.  Find EBSCO or Linguistics/Language Behavior Abstracts and enter that way. It will ask you for your BYU password then let you in.

 

Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Style Guide (modified from the LSA's online guide)

Each entry should contain the following elements in the order and punctuation given: (first) author's surname, given name(s) or initial(s); given name and surname of other authors. year of publication. Full title and subtitle of the work. For a journal article: Full name of the journal and volume number, inclusive page numbers for the entire article. For an article in a book: title of the book, ed. by [ full name(s) of editor(s)], inclusive page numbers. For books and monographs, the edition, volume or part number (if applicable) and series title (if any). Place of publication: Publisher.

***Notice the order of the elements, their capitalization or lack thereof, the uses of commas and periods in the examples below and copy the format in your references (for full credit).***



NOTE: Authors names should be in small capitals. I can't get this to show up on the web.

 

Book editor

Dorian, Nancy C. (ed.) 1989. Investigating obsolescence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Journal

Hale, Kenneth, and Josie White Eagle. 1980. A preliminary metrical account of Winnebago accent. International Journal of American Linguistics 46.117–32.

 

Unpublished manuscript

Miner, Kenneth. 1990. Winnebago accent: the rest of the data. Lawrence: University of Kansas, ms.

 

Dissertation

Poser, William. 1984. The phonetics and phonology of tone and intonation in Japanese. Cambridge, MA: MIT dissertation.

 

Presented paper

Prince, Ellen. 1991. Relative clauses, resumptive pronouns, and kind-sentences. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago.

 

Book

Rice, Keren. 1989. A grammar of Slave. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

 

Book chapter

Yip, Moira. 1991. Coronals, consonant clusters, and the coda condition. The special status of coronals: internal and external evidence, ed. by Carole Paradis and Jean-Francois Prunet, 61-78. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.