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Reference Tools and Print Resources

The Library is strong in print resources and reference tools for the study of languages and linguistics, including good collections of primary resources (in the Fisher Library Research Collection, the Microfilm Collection, SETIS and in Rare Books and Special Collections). A representative selection is listed on these pages:

Encyclopedias
Dictionaries
   - General
   - Aboriginal
   - Creole and Pidgin
   - Papuan
Bibliographies
Atlases, registers, surveys

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of language and linguistics / editor-in-chief R.E. Asher; coordinating editor J.M.Y Simpson. 10 vols.
Oxford ; New York : Pergamon Press, 1994
Fisher Ref 403 11

Encyclopedia of the languages of Europe / edited by Glanville Price.
Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 1998
Fisher Ref 409.4 17
Fisher Research 409.4 17

International encyclopedia of linguistics / William Bright, editor-in-chief. 4 vols.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1992
Fisher Ref 410.3 10

Dictionaries

- General

Dictionary of historical and comparative linguistics / edited by R.L. Trask
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2000
Fisher Ref 417.703 1
Fisher Research 417.703 1

Dictionary of linguistics and phonetics / David Crystal.
Oxford, UK : Cambridge, MA : Blackwell, 1997
Fisher Ref 410.321 1B

Encyclopedic dictionary of language and languages of linguistics / David Crystal.
Oxford, UK : Cambridge, MA : Blackwell, 1992
Fisher Ref 410.3 14

Routledge dictionary of language and linguistics / Hadumod Bussmann ; translated and edited by Gregory Trauth and Kerstin Kazzazi.
London ; New York ; Routledge, 1996
Fisher Ref 410.3 18

- Aboriginal

The Library has a number of dictionaries of individual Aboriginal languages, and holdings should be checked in the online catalogue. A selection of titles is held between R499.15 and R499.1503 on the Fisher Library Reference shelves; others are in the Curriculum Resources Library and the Fisher Library Research Collection.

Aboriginal English : a cultural study / J.M.Arthur.
Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 1996
Fisher Research 427.99403 3

Beginnings of a Ngukurr-Bamyili Creole dictionary / compiled by John R. and Joy L. Sandefur.
Darwin : Summer Institute of Linguistics, Australian Aborigines Branch, 1979
Fisher Research 499.15 125

Macquarie Aboriginal words : a dictionary of words from Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages / general editors: Nick Thieberger, William McGregor.
North Ryde, N.S.W. : Macquarie Library, Macquarie University, 1994
Fisher Ref 499.15 155
Curriculum Ref 499.15 155
Health Sc. Ref 499.15 MAC

- Creole and Pidgin

Book of Pidgin English : being : (1) a grammar and notes (2) an outline of Pidgin English, (3) a Pidgin English-English dictionary, (4) and English-Pidgin English dictionary / by John J. Murray.
Brisbane : Smith & Paterson, 1966
Burkitt 427.995 5
Fisher Research 427.995 5

Dictionary of Caribbean English usage / edited by Richard Allsopp ; with a French and Spanish supplement edited by Jeannette Allsopp.
Oxford : New York : Oxford University Press, 1996
Fisher Ref 427.972903 1

Grammar and dictionary of Neo-Melanesian / by Francis Mihalic.
Techny, Ill.: Mission Press, c1957
Fisher Research 427.9955 9
Law 427.9955 9

Jacaranda dictionary and grammar of Melanesian Pidgin / F. Mihalic
Milton, Qld. : Jacaranda Press, 1971
Fisher Ref 427.9955 8
Fisher Research 427.9955 8

- Papuan

Comparative dictionary of Orokolo, Gulf of Papua / by Herbert A. Brown.
Canberra : Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1986
Fisher Research 499.120321 1

> Ropu we te Mawo pilang te = daftar kata dasar Bahasa Skou / Gideon Kemo ... [et al] ; Mark Donohoe.
Sentani {Irian Jaya} : University of Sydney, 1999
Fisher Rare Books RB 378.944S M.Li.1 4

Wreminsiam Abinomnwori / Christian Fiwei ... [et al] ; Mark Donohoe.
Sentani {Irian Jaya} : University of Sydney and Summer institute of Linguistics, 1999
Fisher Rare Books RB 378.944S M.Li.1 5

Bibliographies

Bibliographie des etudes creoles : langues, cultures, societes / Marie-Christine Hazael-Massieux (avec la collaboration de R. Chaudenson et D. de Robillard.
Aix-en-Provence : Institut d'etudes creoles et francophones ; Paris : Didier erudition [distributor], 1991
Fisher Research 016.41722 1

Bibliography of pidgin and creole languages / compiled by John E. Reinecke, in collaboration with David DeCamp ...[et al].
Honolulu : University of Hawaii, [1975]
Fisher Research 016.4172 2

Bibliography of the English language from the invention of printing to the year 1800 : a systematic record of writings on English, and on other languages in English, based on the collections of the principal libraries of the world / compiled by R.C. Alston.
1st edition reprinted.
Ilkley : Janus Press, 1974
Fisher Ref 016.4209 2

A comprehensive annotated bibliography of American Black English / by Ila Wales Brasch and Walter Milton Brasch.
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press [1974]
Fisher Research 016.427973 2

Linguistic bibliography.
Utrecht : Spectrum, 1947 -
Library has: 1948 -
Fisher Ref 400 25

Linguistic bibliography of the New Guinea area / Lois Carrington.
Canberra : Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1996
Fisher Research 016.499 3

Materials for a bibliography of translinguistic studies / Marge E. Landsberg.
Bloomington : Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1986
Fisher Research 016.41 18

Papers on Kriol : the writing system and a resource guide / John R. Sandefur.
Darwin : Summer Institute of Linguistics, Austyralian Aborigines Branch, 1984
Fisher Research 499.15 39

Renaissance linguistics archive, 1350-1700 : a first print-out from the secondary-sources data-base / edited by Mirko Tavoni ; computer programme, Ugo Pincelli ; assistant editor, Anna Maria Pieraccini.
Ferrar : Istituto di studi reinascimentali, 1987
Fisher Research 016.41 16

Atlases, Registers, Surveys

Atlas of the world's languages / general editors Christopher Moseley and R.E. Asher.
London : Routledge, 1994
Fisher Ref F402.23 1

Atlas of the world's languages in danger of disappearing / Stephen A. Wurm, editor ; Theo Baumann, cartographer.
Paris : Unesco Pub./Pacific Linguistics, c1996
Fisher Ref 409 28
Fisher Research 409 28

Aboriginal Australia : register of tribe, clan, horde, linguistic group, language names and AIATSIS langiage codes - including synonyms, misnomer and approximate locations / by George William Helon.
Bundaberg, Qld.: Centre for Historical Aboriginal and International Research, 1998
Fisher Ref 306.0899915 91
Health Sciences Ref. 306.0899915 91

Linguistic survey of Australia/ A. Capell.
Sydney, 1963
Fisher Research 499
Fisher Short Loan 499 1 Linguistic survey of the south western Pacific / A. Capell.
Noumea : South Pacific Commission, 1962
Fisher Research 499.6 Survey of New Guinea languages / A. Capell.
Sydney : University Press, 1962
Fisher Research 499.12 103
Burkitt Ford 499.12 103
Fisher Rare Books RB 783.3 291