GENERAL PROFESSIONAL AND REFERENCE RESOURCES


  1. Choose three faculty from the Department of Linguistics and English Language at BYU. Using MLA Periodicals Index or Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, try to determine what their area of specialization is. List one article for each faculty member that seems to be representative of their overall publication record.

For the following four questions, you might want to focus on one particular area of linguistics that interests you.

  1. Find two linguistically-related mailing lists that look interesting to you. What are 2-3 recent topics on each one that look particularly interesting?
     

  2. Find two recent linguistic conferences that seem interesting to you.
     

  3. Find two recent books that seem interesting to you.
     

  4. What are two fields of linguistics that seem to have a lot of recent job postings?