Online version of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language.

Includes English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Arabic and Portuguese.

Oxford Bibliographies for Linguistics provides annotations of the most important books and articles in the areas of Linguistics. This is a particularly useful resource for anyone beginning their research.

This resource is the online version to the 5-volume reference work, the Blackwell Companion to Phonology. Focusing on phenomena and case studies to highlight historical and ongoing debates in the field this resource. In addition to 124 contributions the online version offers audio files and links to external web content.

The primary scholarly, historical dictionary of classical Latin. Covers historical shades of meaning and syntax extensively, with comprehensive listings of the use of each word through the Antonine period, and more selective listings through the year 600.

Electronic version of the Grand Robert de la Langue Franaise etymological dictionary. (off campus users currently must use VPN access; requires the use of Chrome or Safari Internet browsers)

Extensive information about the world’s 7000 living languages, including the number of language users, in a country or worldwide; information about writing systems, the official status of a language (if any) in a given country; related dialects; language typology (word order, phonological, morphological, and syntactic features. Dynamic maps allow exploring languages by country and region, and drilling down to greater levels of detail. Researchers can browse by country, language name, and language family. Includes an extensive bibliography.