Linguistic Bibliography – Contributor Tools
The "classification remarks" below explain a number of concepts that sometimes lead to confusion.
Classification
Classification - remarks
The following lists contain the keywords now in use in LB and, for your information, a short document on the changes made recently. In case you would like to have a concept added or withdrawn, please add your suggestions to your contribution.
Subject keywords - alphabetically
Subject keywords - thematically
Hierarchical structure of subject keywords
Recent changes in keywords 2013
For a number of complex language families the individual languages are listed in the documents below. Each language name contains a reference to its grouping within the LB classification scheme.
Australian languages - alphabetically
Australian languages - genetically
Austronesian languages - partial list
Dialects of Italy
Khoisan Groupings
Languages of North America
Languages of Meso-America
Languages of South America
Modern Arabic dialects
Mongolic languages
Oceanic languages - genetically
Tibeto-Burman languages - alphabetically
Tibeto-Burman languages - genetically
The following documents contain a detailed style-sheet for LB contributions and transcription standards for some non-Latin scripts.
Instructions for LB-contributors 2013
Instructions - examples
Criteria for the indexation of online publications in the Linguistic Bibliography
Cyrillic for Slavic languages
Georgian
Hebrew
Korean
The following list contains the abbreviations allowed for use in editorial text.
Abbreviations
