Linguistics Research & Writing Resources

Updated 2016/1/23

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The most important link on this page

• The "golden rule" of academic deadlines!

Upcoming linguistics conferences

• Upcoming conferences announced on LINGUIST
• Upcoming conferences announced by the Linguistics Society of America (LSA)
• Upcoming and regular conferences announced by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Some prominent conference series

• Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)
• Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS)
• Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS)
• Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW, including GLOW in Asia)
• International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL)
• International Conference on the Mental Lexicon
• International Morphology Meeting (IMM)
• International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL)
• Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon)
• Linguistics Society of America (LSA)
• National Conference on Linguistics (NCL)
• North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL)
• North East Linguistics Society (NELS)
• Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research
• West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL)
• Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL)

Academic style

• The Language style guide [PDF]
• The Language and Linguistics style guide
• The Linguistic Inquiry style guide [PDF]
• Resources on all aspects of APA style
• Automatic online APA Style Converter (includes Chinese interface)

How-to guides

• Thinking
• Resources on critical thinking (includes Chinese version)
• Wikipedia on cognitive bias
• A basic introduction to scientific reasoning
• The basics of experimental design
• Research and writing
• How to use library resources for linguistics
• General writing tips from the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
• How to write a thesis proposal (includes related links)
• Conferences
• Examples of good and bad linguistics conference abstracts
• How to give a linguistics presentation
• How to design and present a linguistics poster
• Powerpoint-based conference poster templates [Other similar sites]
• Publishing
• How to publish journal articles (some tips)
• How to publish journal articles (some more tips)
• What to do when your journal submission is rejected
• Job-related skills
• How to ask for a letter of recommendation
• How to give comments on student writing
• What to do in a job interview

Online publication databases

• Google Scholar
• Resolve a DOI (Digital Object Identifier)
• Electronic resources at the CCU library, including links to:
  
  Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
  PsycInfo
  ScienceDirect
  Web of Science (citation index)
  中國期刊網 (文史哲專輯)
• Site for off-campus access to CCU library e-journals (requires password)
• LingBuzz [includes postings to Rutgers Optimality Archive]
• Theses in Taiwan

Languages

• Ethnologue: The SIL catalogue of languages of the world
• The World Atlas of Language Structures Online
• Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks: Chinese language and linguistics

Linguistic organizations

• The LINGUIST List Website
• Subscribing to the LINGUIST List email service
• Linguistics Society of Taiwan
• The International Association of Chinese Linguistics
• The Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
• LSA membership application

Some publication opportunities

• Cautions about open access journals
• Some pros: Can be high-quality but expensive | Can be high-quality and cheap
• Some cons: Can be low-quality and expensive | Ditto
• The LINGUIST List's list of linguistics journals
• Concentric: Studies in Linguistics
• Journal of Chinese Linguistics
• Journal of East Asian Linguistics
• Language and Linguistics
• Oceanic Linguistics
• Sign Language Studies
• Taiwan Journal of Linguistics
• The Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association