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Linguistic Bibliography Online contains over 860,000 detailed bibliographical descriptions of linguistic publications on general and applied linguistics. About 268,000 descriptions (of works published before 1993) are available in free access, and about 592,000 descriptions (of works published from 1993 on) are available in the premium edition. The bibliography aims to cover all languages of the world, paying particular attention to publications on endangered and lesser-studied languages. Bibliographical references of publications in any language are collected, analyzed, and annotated by a team of linguists and bibliographers from around the world. With a tradition of over seventy years, and with about 2,000 new references added every month, the Linguistic Bibliography Online remains the most comprehensive and up-to-date bibliography for every scholar and student of linguistics. Linguistic Bibliography Online includes all bibliographical references of the printed yearbooks since 1977, as well as additional materials which are exclusive to the online version, such as references to online resources. Annual print volumes of Linguistic Bibliography are also published.

In 2023 Brill relaunched Linguistic Bibliography Online on its new dedicated bibliographies platform in the so-called ‘freemium’ model. References from retro-digitized volumes from before 1993 are gradually being added and made available in free access. References for publications published from 1993 on are available for subscribers of the premium edition.

Compiled and edited by : Anne Aarssen and Eline van der Veken

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History of the Linguistic Bibliography
Abbreviations used in LB
User Guide for LBO

Online and print
The online database Linguistic Bibliography Online includes all bibliographical references of the printed yearbooks 1977-present, as well as additional materials which are exclusive to the online version (e.g. online resources). New bibliographical descriptions on the latest linguistic publications are added to the online database on a monthly basis. Annual volumes of the Linguistic Bibliography continue to be published in print by Brill. 

Key Features

  • Compiled, analyzed, and annotated by an international team of specialists
  • Contains about 860,000 bibliographical references
  • 2,000 new references added monthly, plus retro-digitized references made freely accessible
  • References contain links to full-text and library services when available
  • DOI links and abstracts increasingly available
  • References to publications written in more than 150 different languages (translations and transliterations provided wherever necessary)
  • Simple, full-text, and advanced search options
  • Over 1,000 subject keywords and 4,000 language keywords (available in data from 2004 onwards)
  • Save, print, and email functions available
  • Citations are exportable in various formats

Subjects included in Linguistic Bibliography:

  • All languages and language families
  • Theoretical linguistics
  • Biographical data on linguists (e.g. biographies, obituaries)

Publication forms included in Linguistic Bibliography:

  • Books: monographs and edited volumes incl. Festschriften and conference proceedings
  • Articles from journals incl. e-journals and open access
  • Chapters from edited volumes
  • Short research notes and squibs
  • Reviews and review articles
  • Bibliographies
  • PhD dissertations
  • Textbooks and handbooks catered to students
  • Online resources
  • Obituaries
  • Dictionaries on lesser studied languages
  • Primary sources and language documentation, especially of lesser studied languages, e.g. corpora, vocabularies

Editors
The Linguistic Bibliography is edited by Anne Aarssen and Eline van der Veken. To contact the editors, please send an email to bl@brill.com

Contributors
The Linguistic Bibliography is made possible by the valuable work of our contributing linguists around the world, who gather, compile and annotate bibliographical references within their field of expertise. Become a contributor.

Xosé-Afonso Álvarez, Alcalá de Henares
Portuguese / 2017-

Milica Anchevski, Skopje
North Macedonia / 1996-

Rogier Blokland, Uppsala
Uralic languages / 2005-

Johannes Bronkhorst, Lausanne
History of Indian linguistics / 1985-

Benjamin Brosig, Germany
Mongolian languages / 2003-

Sara Cardullo, Messina
Italo-Romance / 2024-

Maria Clara Diniz, Rotterdam
Korean / 2023-

Sofia Dmitrieva, Sankt-Peterburg
Russia / 2016-

Matthias Donners, Marburg
Continental Celtic / 2023-

Anna Aurelia Esposito, Würzburg
Middle Indo-Aryan / 2003-

Panagiotis Filos, Ioannina
Classical and post-Classical Greek / 2017-

Federico Gobbo, Amsterdam
Planned languages / 2013-

Tatsuya Hirako, Nagoya
Japan / 2015-

Andreas Hölzl, Potsdam
Tungusic languages / 2020-

Institute of Modern Greek Studies, Thessaloniki
Greece / 1999-

Carolina Julià Luna, Barcelona
Catalan / 2021-

Agata Kawecka, Łódź
Church Slavonic, Montenegro and Croatia / 2020-

Krystyna Kowalik, Krakow
Poland / 2018-

Ferdinan Okki Kurnawian, Jakarta Timur
Indonesia / 2020-

Emil Lafe, Tiranë
Albanian / 1993-

Bjorn Lichtenberg, Utrecht
Freelance Editor / 2024-

Carlos Molina Valero, Cáceres
Anatolian & Proto-Indo-European / 2004-
Modern Spanish / 2017-

Jurij Mosenkis, Kyjiv
Ukraine / 2004-

Dorina Onica, Ilfov
Romanian / 2022-

Evgeniia Osmova, Leiden
Freelance Editor / 2023-

Shota Papava, Tbilisi
Georgian / 2024-

Jana Papcunová, Praha
Czech Republic / 2000-

Ludwig Paul, Hamburg
Modern Iranian languages / 1992-

Lăčezar Perčeklijski & Nadelina Ivova, Blagoevgrad
Bulgaria / 2012-

Ivan N. Petrov, Łódź
Church Slavonic, Montenegro and Croatia / 2020-

Anja Pohontsch, Bautzen/Budyšin
Sorbian / 2013-

Fangzhe Qiu, Dublin
Irish, Manx / 2019-

Xosé Luís Regueira Fernández, Santiago de Compostela
Galician / 1993-

Eva-Maria Remberger, Wien
Sardinian / 2010-

Dominika Skrzypek, Poznań
North Germanic / 2021-

Daniela Slančová & Martin Ološtiak, Prešov
Slovak Republic / 1996-

Anna Stefan, Łódź
Slovenian / 2020-

Ágnes Stemler, Budapest
Hungary / 1996-

Jasna Vlajić-Popović, Beograd
Serbia / 1999-

Nina van der Vlugt, Leiden
African languages / 2020-

Andrew Wigman, Leiden
Freelance Editor / 2023-

Jiang Wu, Leiden
Freelance Editor / 2023-

Former contributors

Advisory Board
Prof. Willem Adelaar (University of Leiden, The Netherlands)
Prof. Peter Austin (SOAS/ELAP, London, United Kingdom)
Prof. Bernard Comrie (MPI/EVA, Leipzig, Germany)
Prof. William Croft (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA)
Prof. Mark Janse (Ghent University, Belgium)
Prof. Christian Lehmann (University of Erfurt, Germany)

CIPL
The Linguistic Bibliography/Bibliographie Linguistique was founded in 1946 by CIPL (Comité International Permanent des Linguistes/Permament International Committee of Linguists) and continues to receive its support to this day. CIPL is an international organization founded to assist in the development of linguistic science. It tries to further linguistic research and to co-ordinate activities undertaken for the advancement of linguistics.
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Brill
The Linguistic Bibliography is published in print and online by academic publisher Brill. Founded in 1683, Brill is a publishing house with a rich history and a strong international focus. The company’s head office is in Leiden, (The Netherlands) with a branch office in Boston, Massachusetts (USA). Brill was listed at the Amsterdam Stock exchange in 1896. Brill shares have been publicly traded since 1997.

Brill’s publications focus on the Humanities and Social Sciences, International Law and selected areas in the Sciences. Brill publications also include the imprints Brill | Nijhoff, Brill | Rodopi, Brill | Hes & De Graaf and Hotei Publishing.
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Abstracting policy
As of 2012, the Linguistic Bibliography Online includes abstracts and summaries in bibliographical descriptions of books and articles. This service to our users is exclusively available in the online version of the Linguistic Bibliography, i.e. abstracts do not appear in the annual print volumes. Abstracts are displayed as they appear in the original publication, although formats may be edited for technical reasons, and copyright remains with the author and/or publisher.

We are much obliged to the publishers, organizations and journal editors providing abstracts free-of-charge and granting us permission to display them in our online database. Click here to view the full list of cooperating institutions.

Request for inclusion
To request the inclusion/indexation of a journal or other type of publication in the Linguistic Bibliography, please send an email with details of the publication (URL if possible) to bl@brill.com. All suggestions will be processed very carefully by the editorial staff. Click here for more information about the criteria for inclusion.

History of the Linguistic Bibliography/Bibliographie Linguistique
The idea of compiling a linguistic bibliography was conceived in 1946, at the sixth meeting of the CIPL (Comité International Permanent des Linguistes/Permament International Committee of Linguists) in Paris. The bibliography would cover linguistic publications of the previous years in order to re-establish international contacts between linguists which had been interrupted by World War II. Linguists from ten different countries contributed to the first volume, which was the responsibility of Prof. Christine Mohrmann, who soon entrusted the work to Jan Beylsmit. In 1948, the newly founded UNESCO agreed to make a financial contribution to each volume, which would cover the printing costs. In 1949, the first volume of the Linguistic Bibliography/Bibliographie Linguistique (LB) was published by publishing house Spectrum (Utrecht, The Netherlands).

From then on, new volumes of the LB yearbook were published, first with Spectrum, then with Martinus Nijhoff (1980-), Kluwer (1988-), Springer (2005-), and finally Brill (2008-). From 1983, the LB staff were housed in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands), where an online bibliographical database was developed. The Linguistic Bibliography Online (LBO) was launched in 2002 and contains all bibliographical references from 1993 onwards.

Today, the Linguistic Bibliography print volumes and online database are published with Brill (Leiden, The Netherlands), and are compiled by two in-house editors and some 40 contributors from all over the world. The print volumes continue to appear annually and Linguistic Bibliography Online is updated monthly.

Abbreviations used in LB
Click here to open a pdf with English, French, German and Russian abbreviations used in LB.

User Guide for LBO
Click here to open a pdf User Guide specifically for LBO.
  • 12,546 bibliographical references added (804,011 in total, of which 219,326 in open access).
    This update includes the digitized bibliographical references from the Linguistic Bibliography yearbook for 1978.
  • 2 new language keywords:
  • 18,654 bibliographical references added (557,825 in total)
  • including 17,819 digitized bibliographical references from the Linguistic Bibliography 1991 yearbook
  • 121 journals updated
  • 4 new language keywords:
  • 1 new subject keyword:
Milestone: now over 500,000 bibliographical references online!
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