Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
Linguistics:
Reference Sources and Text Archives
A brief sampling. Many more can be found through the
Internet Gateways.
Arizona Minimalist Syntax Archives.
Following the model of the Rutgers Optimality Archive (below), a collection of unedited, unreviewed,
unsolicited, self-selected papers. The Archive is open to any and all who want to make their work in or on
minimalist syntactic theory freely available to the research community. From the home page given above,
scroll down to the section under "Research" and select "Arizona Minimalist Syntax Archives."
Ethnologue: Languages of the World.
Web version of a standard print source. Searchable by country, by language name, and language family. For
languages, entries provide the number of speakers, regions where spoken, language classification, plus
links to an entries by country and to language maps. Covers nearly 7000 languages.
Rutgers Optimality Archive.
The Rutgers Optimality Archive (ROA) exists to facilitate the exchange of research results. Papers in the
Archive are unedited, unreviewed, self-selected, and unsolicited. The Archive is open to any and all who
want to make their work in or on Optimality Theory available to the research community. Downloading (of
PDF files) is free of charge or obligation and is completely anonymous.
