[Lingtyp] Encyclopedias of linguistics

Sebastian Nordhoff sebastian.nordhoff at glottotopia.de
Mon Jan 27 12:38:40 UTC 2025


Dear all,
most larger publishing houses have something called "Encyclopedia of
Linguistics" or similar.

I would like to whether fellow list members a) use any of them and b) if
you do use them, whether you have a preference and why, and which ones
you would recommend, and why.

I have found the following:
1) Elsevier:   Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
2) Oxford:     International Encyclopedia of Linguistics
3) Routledge:  Encyclopedia of Linguistics
4) de Gruyter: Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
5) Brill:      Encylopedia of (Slavic|Greek|Arabic|Hebrew) Linguistics
6) Cambridge:  Encyclopedia of Language (much shorter than the rest)
7) Glottopedia.org
8) Wikipedia.org
9) Lexicon of linguistics: https://lexicon.hum.uu.nl/

I would also like to know whether there are some comparable projects
which I may have missed.

Best wishes
Sebastian








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