English Language

Databases

Whilst Library Search is your starting point when researching a topic, sometimes it’s helpful to restrict your search to one of our specialist sources.  

• Linguistics Collection (ProQuest) - Index and full-text databases covering all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. 
• Literature & Language Database (ProQuest) - A collection of literature and language databases. 
• MLA International Bibliography - Offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Subjects consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism, and dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.  
• Oxford Reference Online - A reference database which includes English and bilingual dictionaries, as well as subject dictionaries and reference books published by Oxford University Press. 
• JSTOR - a great range of books and articles on all kind of topics including English Language. 
• Corpus - A series of corpora available to interrogate online. 
• Dictionary of Old English - Defines the vocabulary of the first six centuries (C.E. 600-1150) of the English language, using twenty-first century technology. The dictionary covers the first eight letters of the Old English alphabet. 
• Dictionary of Old English Corpus - The Dictionary of Old English Corpus contains at least one copy of each text surviving in Old English.