[Lingtyp] Encyclopedias of linguistics

[Jeremy Bradley]

Dear Sebastian, dear all,

I will generally use resources of this type when establishing and 
delimiting very basic terminology in my writing (e.g., "aspect", 
"asyndeton") and possibly wanting to illustrate to what extent 
definitions and conceptions diverge even for terms that are considered 
so basic, they'll often go completely undefined. I have no special 
(dis-)loyalty to any one resource - Glottopedia is what I'd use if I 
want to give a quick reference to what the ~consensus is; I don't 
directly cite Wikipedia but will use it to get an overview of how 
definitions might diverge; beyond that, it depends on which resource 
will have definitions that might expand upon, or deviate from, 
definitions used in the thematic literature I'm working on, what I have 
in hand, what the literature I read refers to.

The single resources I've used most that could fall (very) roughly into 
this category are:

de Gruyter: /Morphologie. Morphology. Ein internationales Handbuch zur 
Flexion und Wortbildung. An International Handbook on Inflection and 
Word-Formation/
Cambridge: /World Lexicon of Grammaticalization/

Best,
Jeremy


On 27/01/2025 13:38, Sebastian Nordhoff via Lingtyp wrote:
> 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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